I have a 03 mustang with a 3.8 engine and recently moved to within 1 mile of work.. I currently use Mobil 1 5w30 what would you use and would you recomend installing a oil temp guage so I can make sure it is up to temperature occasionally? I have been going 5k on oil changes but do not Know now that would be a year of driving. any help is appreciated thanks mat
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Not really answering your question, but depending on what line of work you are in, you could walk or ride a bicycle to work most days and get a lot of health benefits for both your car (by avoiding many of the short trips) and for you.
Why wear out your good car with such short trips.
Buy a BIG old beater, something like an Caddy SedanDeVille, Chrysler 300, or better yet an old Lincoln with the suicide doors. Make sure it's out of tune, burns oil, and has a hole in the muffler. When you start in the morning, make sure you rev it a lot as it warms up as way to say "howdy, good-mornin'" to your neighbors. The kids will have a blast running through the clouds of smoke you produce as they make their way to school or the bus stop. On the mile run into work, make sure you floor it all the way so the oil gets a little heat before you get there. This also helps to scare any roadside joggers off the road and shoulders and into the weeds where they belong.
Carry some water in used bleach jugs and use these to prime the rear tires before you do a psuedo bleach burnout as you head back at the end of the day. Your co-workers will think you're Don Garlits with a very busy social schedule.
When you get home, make sure you rev it good a few times, to let your neighbors know you're home and are sayin "howdy" again.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I have lots more tips like these.
Buy a BIG old beater, something like an Caddy SedanDeVille, Chrysler 300, or better yet an old Lincoln with the suicide doors. Make sure it's out of tune, burns oil, and has a hole in the muffler. When you start in the morning, make sure you rev it a lot as it warms up as way to say "howdy, good-mornin'" to your neighbors. The kids will have a blast running through the clouds of smoke you produce as they make their way to school or the bus stop. On the mile run into work, make sure you floor it all the way so the oil gets a little heat before you get there. This also helps to scare any roadside joggers off the road and shoulders and into the weeds where they belong.
Carry some water in used bleach jugs and use these to prime the rear tires before you do a psuedo bleach burnout as you head back at the end of the day. Your co-workers will think you're Don Garlits with a very busy social schedule.
When you get home, make sure you rev it good a few times, to let your neighbors know you're home and are sayin "howdy" again.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I have lots more tips like these.
Walk briskly; good for your body and make you sleep better. Save money too. What's not to like about a deal like that?
1 mile x twice a day x 30 days x 2 months = 120 miles
10 miles x 4 weeks x 2 months = 80 miles
120 + 80 = 200 miles
I'd run Motorcraft 5w20 ($1.42/qt) and change it every 4 months.
If your tight on cash, run Chevron 5w30, $.90/qt at Walmart, last time I checked.
[ August 27, 2004, 03:58 AM: Message edited by: 427Z06 ]
10 miles x 4 weeks x 2 months = 80 miles
120 + 80 = 200 miles
I'd run Motorcraft 5w20 ($1.42/qt) and change it every 4 months.
If your tight on cash, run Chevron 5w30, $.90/qt at Walmart, last time I checked.
[ August 27, 2004, 03:58 AM: Message edited by: 427Z06 ]
My mother does tons of short trip driving in her new Corolla.The car has close to 1k miles so I went ahead and changed it.
The oil smelled like gasoline
.I guess she doesn't drive enough to get the fuel and moisture out of the oil,tough on the oil indeed.
The oil smelled like gasoline
I'm with the other guys, I'd walk, whatever the weather, if I lived a mile from my job. Every day.
I would use Pennzoil or similar 5w30 and change it & filter every 2500 miles IF on tuesday and thursday you take the long way home (5+miles). In addition I would make a 10-20 mile way run at 50+ mph with very few or no stops. Try this and get an oil analysis to see where you stand. ed
Ahhh... I love that sound. Nothing like a 400+ ci engine wheezing through a 2" resricted single exhaust.
If walking is not a good option (some folks need their cars once they get to work for errands, lunch, etc), I'd say the idea posted above of switching to a less costly 5w30 conventional and changing it every 3 months is a great idea.
Carburetored cars did that nicely.quote:
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Speaking of backfiring if you shut the key off and turn it back on in a few seconds will the cars of today backfire or is it only old cars.
I doubt the EFI cars will do exhaust backfires. The injectors shut down with the ign switch. The engine is pumping only air.
Carbureted cars would backfire in exhaust if shut down briefly because the combustible mixture wouldn't burn in the engine when ignition system was off. But the carburetor kept feeding fuel filling exhaust system with combustible mixture. When ignition returned-kaboom
Intake tract backfires usually indicated a severely out of tune engine, incorrect firing order, anything leading to ignition of intake manifold contents via the intake valve
Anytime I heard these I could rest assured the engine was really running bad.
Yes the wheezing 2" exhaust sounds horrible on big displacement engines. Lots of culprits but you have to look at those 400 cubic inch 145 horsepower V8's from the mid-late '70s. Like in the Chrysler Cordoba, 400 CI of sluggish, lean backfiring rich Corinthian goodness. I think Ford was the worst offender-seems like they had a 302 V8 w/125 HP in their Granada. For us guys who lived through the mid-late '70s those were the bad days for cars.
Carbureted cars would backfire in exhaust if shut down briefly because the combustible mixture wouldn't burn in the engine when ignition system was off. But the carburetor kept feeding fuel filling exhaust system with combustible mixture. When ignition returned-kaboom
Intake tract backfires usually indicated a severely out of tune engine, incorrect firing order, anything leading to ignition of intake manifold contents via the intake valve
Yes the wheezing 2" exhaust sounds horrible on big displacement engines. Lots of culprits but you have to look at those 400 cubic inch 145 horsepower V8's from the mid-late '70s. Like in the Chrysler Cordoba, 400 CI of sluggish, lean backfiring rich Corinthian goodness. I think Ford was the worst offender-seems like they had a 302 V8 w/125 HP in their Granada. For us guys who lived through the mid-late '70s those were the bad days for cars.
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