Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: djateohate
Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
You live in GA - gets pretty hot there.
Most of my trips are 3 miles back and forth to the bus stop. My oil only gets up to operating temp on longer weekend trips.
I need something that is thin enough to start flowing well as early as possible.
OK, so put some 0w-20 in it. Then, if you take a longer trip, what are you going to do, drain it out and go thicker just for that 1 trip?
Haas isn't an engineer for BMW (neither is he an engineer for Ferrari...).
5w-30 oil at 50 degrees is gonna be thicker than 5w-40 at 90 degrees.
Older BMWs are one vehicle where I think it's agreed upon that thicker is better.
Originally Posted By: djateohate
Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
You live in GA - gets pretty hot there.
Most of my trips are 3 miles back and forth to the bus stop. My oil only gets up to operating temp on longer weekend trips.
I need something that is thin enough to start flowing well as early as possible.
OK, so put some 0w-20 in it. Then, if you take a longer trip, what are you going to do, drain it out and go thicker just for that 1 trip?
Haas isn't an engineer for BMW (neither is he an engineer for Ferrari...).
5w-30 oil at 50 degrees is gonna be thicker than 5w-40 at 90 degrees.
Older BMWs are one vehicle where I think it's agreed upon that thicker is better.