I just called them, and they verified that if you have a Toyota, AdvantageCare is the same as the regular service. They only use genuine Toyota motor oil and oil filters specified for your car.
TGMO VOA 0W16 API SP GF6
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Good.
Maybe it’s just an Autonation thing.
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Your receipt says SN. not SP, which is consistent with the reciepts with my HiHy at West Coast Toyota.The part numbers are the same, but https://parts.toyota.com/ no longer sells oil and oil filters because Toyota does not want you to do do-it-yourself oil changes.
Code:00279-16QTE-01 MSRP $8.15 (bottled quart) 00279-16QTE MSRP $48.90 (six-pack-case bottled quart) 00279-BLK16-01 MSRP $5.06 (bulk quart) 90915-YZZN1 MSRP $5.69 (oil filter) 90430-12031 MSRP $1.16 (oil drain-plug gasket)
I got my last free TGMO 0W-16 SP oil change at West Coast Toyota of Long Beach today. They are one of the better dealers in the area for service. The car was at 17,091 miles and two years. Strangely, they recommended both engine air filter and cabin air filter changes for next time, with less than 20,000 miles on the car driven on urban roads—just in time for nonfree service.I will simply by the filters from the dealer and do it myself if necessary, which would cost me $60.05 ($14.93 + tax for engine air filter and $39.54 + tax for cabin air filter at the same dealer) instead of $115.33 as they quoted for that work and be done right for sure.
At the 30k service, I told the advisor, I replaced the engine air and cabin filters at 20,000 miles, so the tech left the new filters on my passenger seat.
The descriptions of the TGMO part numbers are generic. They haven't updated the part numbers and descriptions when they updated the oils from API SN to SN PLUS and then to SP. There is no API SN TGMO out there—it has been all API SP for a long time now. API and ILSAC specs are always backward-compatible; so, there is no issue with not updating TGMO part numbers and descriptions.
I have a bottle of SN TGMO 0w-16 when I bought the car last year, purchased from the parts department of West Coast Toyota.
The API SN stocks should have been depleted by now, and it should be all API SP.
If you look at the back label on the bottle, you can see that the formulation of TGMO 0W-16 SP changed from TGMO 0W-16 SN—the new formulation number 6676 vs. the old formulation number 6378. You can also see that the part number 00279-16QTE did not change.
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"By now" is a whole lot different than "a long time ago" as you previously asserted.
The API SN–SP switch did happen a long time ago. If you look at the dates on the back labels of the bottles, the API SP bottle is dated 2021-01-08 (January 8, 2021), which was almost two years ago. The API SN bottle is dated 2019-02-06. So, perhaps in early 2021, they still had some API SN in stock left or some old stock got mixed into the new stock, but it should be all API SP since late 2021 or so.
If someone can pay for it (~ $40), I can buy a bottle and have a WearCheck VOA with KV40, KV100, and oxidation value for TGMO 0W-16 SP. We can then find out VI and estimate HTFS and the POE content.
Interesting the VOA shows higher moly than the stuff in your new engine with 45-ish miles on it. I thought the factory used assembly lube that contained moly, which you would think would make a new engine with lightly used oil show higher moly than a VOA. At least in Acuras they use to use high moly assembly lube and there were service bulletins not to change factory fill early because they wanted to retain the high moly.
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