JHZR2
Staff member
hi,
i seem to recall some threads praising pennzoil for a number of reasons... However, doing a search, I can't seen to find them. So, I would like to list comments regarding pennzoil and a few others (all regarding SL 5w-30). I hope that this can help us to sort out strengths and weaknesses of various mainstream oils, based upon real analysis done and shown here and other online forums. Ill start with these, any additional oils or comments on my omments would be great. With a listing like this, it is an additional guide to help make a choice on what oils to use in our cars (Maybe someone wants to start one like this for synth or diesel oils) My starting comments are here:
Pennzoil:
-really good base
-really good cold flow properties
-tried and true
-nice does of moly
Castrol GTX
-pooreer coldflow properties
-overall one of the best oils in terms of wear #s
-moly added
-tends to thin out aroud 2k
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-good base oil
-good cold flow
-high quality oil for the price
-no moly, but wear #s seem to show that it doesnt need it
mobil drive clean
-good additive package
-flows well cold
-very very slight moly
-cheap
All in all, for the most part all the oils will yield similar performance and wear numbers in standard dino intervals (3k miles). Any other comments on these?
i seem to recall some threads praising pennzoil for a number of reasons... However, doing a search, I can't seen to find them. So, I would like to list comments regarding pennzoil and a few others (all regarding SL 5w-30). I hope that this can help us to sort out strengths and weaknesses of various mainstream oils, based upon real analysis done and shown here and other online forums. Ill start with these, any additional oils or comments on my omments would be great. With a listing like this, it is an additional guide to help make a choice on what oils to use in our cars (Maybe someone wants to start one like this for synth or diesel oils) My starting comments are here:
Pennzoil:
-really good base
-really good cold flow properties
-tried and true
-nice does of moly
Castrol GTX
-pooreer coldflow properties
-overall one of the best oils in terms of wear #s
-moly added
-tends to thin out aroud 2k
chevron
-good base oil
-good cold flow
-high quality oil for the price
-no moly, but wear #s seem to show that it doesnt need it
mobil drive clean
-good additive package
-flows well cold
-very very slight moly
-cheap
All in all, for the most part all the oils will yield similar performance and wear numbers in standard dino intervals (3k miles). Any other comments on these?