Switching from Synthetic to Dino
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You will be fine. Tenn doesn't get that cold in winter to really need full synthetic, and short OCI's are wasting synthetic oil.
Total conventional or synthetic blend?
Either way it'll make little to no difference to the car but you might hear one oil as noisier than another and set yourself off down a road of testing various brands & viscosities.
Either way it'll make little to no difference to the car but you might hear one oil as noisier than another and set yourself off down a road of testing various brands & viscosities.
That's a good choice as well as Valvoline, Pennzoil etc...
Unless your mind is set Walmart has synthetic oil for near the price of dino.
Mobil Super 5000 is a good choice as member 2016_PSD ran lots of it in his F-150
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Originally Posted By: beadvised
Thanks fellas Im going from PP to either Mobil Super 5000 or Pennzoil Conventional.
If you've been doing fine with the PP additive package, why shift to Mobil Super 5000 which is quite different?
Pennzoil conventional, like PP, is still a high Ca oil with plenty of Boron and Moly. Mobil Super 5000 is a weaker Ca, high sodium oil with no moly, no boron. Mobil Super 5000 is more like the Valvoline conventional and NAPA oils.
Thanks fellas Im going from PP to either Mobil Super 5000 or Pennzoil Conventional.
If you've been doing fine with the PP additive package, why shift to Mobil Super 5000 which is quite different?
Pennzoil conventional, like PP, is still a high Ca oil with plenty of Boron and Moly. Mobil Super 5000 is a weaker Ca, high sodium oil with no moly, no boron. Mobil Super 5000 is more like the Valvoline conventional and NAPA oils.
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What engine ?
Mobil Super 5000 has titanium also
Originally Posted By: 69GTX
Originally Posted By: beadvised
Thanks fellas Im going from PP to either Mobil Super 5000 or Pennzoil Conventional.
If you've been doing fine with the PP additive package, why shift to Mobil Super 5000 which is quite different?
Pennzoil conventional, like PP, is still a high Ca oil with plenty of Boron and Moly. Mobil Super 5000 is a weaker Ca, high sodium oil with no moly, no boron. Mobil Super 5000 is more like the Valvoline conventional and NAPA oils.
why would it have high sodium ? tks
Originally Posted By: beadvised
Thanks fellas Im going from PP to either Mobil Super 5000 or Pennzoil Conventional.
If you've been doing fine with the PP additive package, why shift to Mobil Super 5000 which is quite different?
Pennzoil conventional, like PP, is still a high Ca oil with plenty of Boron and Moly. Mobil Super 5000 is a weaker Ca, high sodium oil with no moly, no boron. Mobil Super 5000 is more like the Valvoline conventional and NAPA oils.
why would it have high sodium ? tks
It's the additive package Mobil Super 5000 and Valvoline use
Originally Posted By: beadvised
3.6 Pentastar
I have two of those engines and frequently bounce between dino, Syn blend and full Syn. The pentastar isn't a picky engine and does well with most name brand oils.
I did a 6,000 mile run with Valvoline conventional and had good numbers in my used oil analysis.
3.6 Pentastar
I have two of those engines and frequently bounce between dino, Syn blend and full Syn. The pentastar isn't a picky engine and does well with most name brand oils.
I did a 6,000 mile run with Valvoline conventional and had good numbers in my used oil analysis.
Broken record here; the gap between synthetic and conventional is slowly evaporating to basically nothing.
With manuf. OLMs going out to 10k and better, and their algorithm set up for dino, the party for high cost boutique oils is nearly over.
True, I run Castrol EDGE 0w40 in my stuff now but if the price of it went up as high as the new year long Mobil 1 I saw recently at Walmart ($49!!!) you'll see me hitting the blends so fast,there'll be a sonic boom in the oil aisle....
With manuf. OLMs going out to 10k and better, and their algorithm set up for dino, the party for high cost boutique oils is nearly over.
True, I run Castrol EDGE 0w40 in my stuff now but if the price of it went up as high as the new year long Mobil 1 I saw recently at Walmart ($49!!!) you'll see me hitting the blends so fast,there'll be a sonic boom in the oil aisle....
^^^ agree with above---except---most new cars come FF with either syn,syn blend, or a grade like 0-20, which can only be had in syn/blend --> so most new car OLMs are set for syn or syn blend
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