Hi, my local Walmart has a couple oils on sale for $22 for a 5 quart jug and I wanted to get some opinions. In the end considering the vehicle I'm dealing with, it's probably 6 of 1 half dozen of another but I would like to hear some input.
Last summer I bought my 16 year old kid a 92 Jeep Cherokee. It had 274,000 on it and runs like a top, and was pretty cheap. So I changed the oil myself and got what seemed decent and was on sale, which was Pennzoil Platinum 5-30 (used a Wix filter). The jeep had a very minor leak, right under the oil pan. It burned (or leaked) about a pint of oil the first 1000 miles. Passed emissions fine so I don't know if it was burning or just leaking. I poured in a bottle of Liqui Moly motor oil saver. It used around a pint the next 1,000 miles, and now the last 2,000 miles has literally used zero oil and there's no leaking. So, I'm going to change the oil again as the odometer is at 278 and some change. I have been waiting for a high mileage oil to go on sale and now the local Walmart has Pennzoil Platinum High Mileage 5-30 and Valvoline Maxlife High Mileage full synthetic 5-30 both on sale for the same price. Any opinions which I should purchase?
Thanks
edit to add it has the 4.0 L motor.
Last summer I bought my 16 year old kid a 92 Jeep Cherokee. It had 274,000 on it and runs like a top, and was pretty cheap. So I changed the oil myself and got what seemed decent and was on sale, which was Pennzoil Platinum 5-30 (used a Wix filter). The jeep had a very minor leak, right under the oil pan. It burned (or leaked) about a pint of oil the first 1000 miles. Passed emissions fine so I don't know if it was burning or just leaking. I poured in a bottle of Liqui Moly motor oil saver. It used around a pint the next 1,000 miles, and now the last 2,000 miles has literally used zero oil and there's no leaking. So, I'm going to change the oil again as the odometer is at 278 and some change. I have been waiting for a high mileage oil to go on sale and now the local Walmart has Pennzoil Platinum High Mileage 5-30 and Valvoline Maxlife High Mileage full synthetic 5-30 both on sale for the same price. Any opinions which I should purchase?
Thanks
edit to add it has the 4.0 L motor.
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