What's the coldest anyone's using Mobil 1 15w50?

[jthorner]

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He won't be running OCIs longer than 5k mi, so maybe changing his oil based on season would be best

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In that case put in Mobil 1 0W-40 in the Fall and 15W-50 in the Spring and don't worry about it.

John

 

[irollturbo]

I ran Mobil 1 15W50 in upstate NY for 15 years in a Volvo. It started in the coldest weather, although below 5 degrees it needed a bit more effort to start. The car had 230K on it when I got rid of it and ran fine. It was 20 years of rust that got it.

 

[Alex D]

All this here certainly flies in the face of BMW MANDATING Castrol 10W-60 for the M 6 cylinder engines ... otherwise you might get a Poke-Rod (not related to Poke-Mon)

 

[TomJones76]

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Originally posted by Alex D:
All this here certainly flies in the face of BMW MANDATING Castrol 10W-60 for the M 6 cylinder engines ... otherwise you might get a Poke-Rod (not related to Poke-Mon)

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Remember, Alex, according to some owners of those engines, they'll keep Poke-Rodding on you even WITH that 10W60 in there.
My reading of that story is that BMW hid behind a fluids reccomendation rather than copping to an engineering failure on their part, much life Chrysler's back-speccing ATF+4 in certain years of minivan with high transmission failure rates.