SUGGEST ONE FOR ME

[wlkjr]

I once knew a man who owned a service station and he changed his oil every 1000 miles.
If it was me I'd change every 3 mo. with Havoline 5W30 conventional and sleep well at night. Surely you have bigger fish to fry.

 

[mossad]

Is Havolines HM oil good as well for my other veh which is up there in age, or better off with Maxlife or Castrol GTX?

 

[wlkjr1951]

Flip a coin. The engine will probably outlast the body.

 

[mdocod]

i've been reading some stuff about API laxing it's requirements for motor oil in recent times due to hurricane katrina....

From what I have read, Havoline in some areas will be reduced from a group2+ to a group 1 base stock... I would imagine the addative package will stay about the same, but the base oil change would reduce the overall quality of the oil.

just something to take into consideration.. maybe someone else can chime in on this... i'm not sure if other oil brands you mentioned will be effected as well or not.

 

[mossad]

Quote "Are you sure we can't convince you to at least go 4 months/4k?

I'd be willing to bet your engine would last just as long with that regimen as it would going 3mo/3k. Heck, even 5mo/5k would make that engine last longer than you want it to. "

4 months/4k with Valvoline All Climate?

 

[Cutehumor]

for 3 mo/3k OCI, I would use the cheapest oil. housebrands such as supertech would be fine. if you despise the housebrands, I would go with the cheapest namebrand oil you can find. that probably will be havoline

 

[mossad]

But I want to know which of the 3 is best for me (NOT BASED ON PRICE)
Valvoline all Climate, Havoline, Castrol with consdideration to my many short trips and using a 3 month OIC???

 

[Eddie]

Castrol GTX

 

[Winston]

code:

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Oil Blend Castrol Havoline

Visc Label GTX - SM

Kine Visc 10W40 10W30

B 0 117

Ca 1149 1658

Mg 8 24

Mo 42 43

P 524 654

Zn 659 822

TBN 6.5 ?

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I would pick Havoline. More is better(generally) and Boron is good too.

 

[mossad]

Yeah, I was wondering about Eddie's suggestion.
I will use Havoline 5/30 in my minvan then.
My Lumina. I want to use a HM oil and can't find Havoline 5/30 in HM, but 10/30 HM is readily available. I concerned about using 10/30 in HM though as it gets bitterly cold around here in winter. ???

 

[ufbbc]

Unless everything on this forum is a bunch of bunk this is one of the biggest no brainers in the history of earth.

Absolutely 100% without a doubt Havoline. Why? Because it is better than the other 2 and costs LESS.

 

[hominid7]

With 3000 oci's and the oils you gave us to choose from, i'd go with Havoline. It's typicaly less expensive than the others, not to mention it seems to give very good UOA's. Another oil you might also consider is Exxon Superflo. Both Superflo and Havoline are quality oils at very decent prices.

Then again with 3000 OCI's you could probably use any stores house-brand, or just whatever happens to be on sale, and come out just fine.

 

[jorton]

Do you have a warm place to change the oil in the winter months. If not, you should change it in autumn, spring and then 2 times in summer.

Your winter OCI would be longer so use synthetic oil for that one. Also, synthetic will perform better in the coldest temps.

I have never heard of problems with Pennzoil in passenger cars. The frying pan test is not a realistic test for engine oil. Pennzoil is the most popular motor oil so if it were bad for your engine, the company would be closed by now with so many law suits.