04 Pontiac vibe, driving from Los Angeles to Boston (3k + miles), will be there driving,etc for a month then driving back. Gonna replace the Super Tech High Mileage syn 10w30 in it now w 4500 miles on the oil. Your thoughts on which oil, these are my options
Which oil for long trip
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Why are you now using a High Mileage 10w30 oil? do you have oil consumption issues? I probably would go with the Rotella oil. Ed
Best oil for the trip, LAX to Logan and back, no sweat.
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I would stick with a 10W30 for prolonged highway speeds.
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The Mobil 1 Advanced Fuel Economy 0w30 is almost as thick at temp...
Flip a coin, both are good oils and imo it won't matter one bit which oil you use.
If it was mine, Rotella
Agreed....and either should take you there and back easily, with all that highway in between.
My preference .... is neither of those LOL
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Went w the 5w30 this time. I will use the 0w30 in my daughters Camry on her next OCI
Any modern fully synthetic oil is going to be just great. A long, lazy highway haul for hours on end with the engine at temperature and light throttle angles is as ideal as it gets.
Pick and use a quality name brand, filter of adequate specifications and launch it!
If you stand on the throttle on end for hours at a time and race it ragged and raw, plow snow with it, or short trip it under 30miles/minutes in stop and go traffic or gridlock?
Use the same good oil of known quality and filter, just check the oil level more often,treat it like it was on severe schedule and change it more frequently.
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The older I get and the more I read, it seems that the only salient points on car oil are to keep it changed on time and keep it full. That it is changed at all is far more important than what's in it.
Pick and use a quality name brand, filter of adequate specifications and launch it!
If you stand on the throttle on end for hours at a time and race it ragged and raw, plow snow with it, or short trip it under 30miles/minutes in stop and go traffic or gridlock?
Use the same good oil of known quality and filter, just check the oil level more often,treat it like it was on severe schedule and change it more frequently.
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The older I get and the more I read, it seems that the only salient points on car oil are to keep it changed on time and keep it full. That it is changed at all is far more important than what's in it.
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Either will work well. I had 2 Pontiac Vibes, a 2003 FWD (270k miles) and a 2006 AWD (100k miles), both with the same 1ZZ-FE engine. I liked how Mobil 1 Advanced Fuel Economy 0W30 performed in both. Didn't do a used oil analysis, but overall performance was pretty good, compared to some other oils used: no startup chain rattle, oil consumption was little to none, and with normal OCIs they oil came out dark enough to where I couldn't shine a light through the oil stream as it was draining. That tells me it cleaned something in the engine and kept it in suspension until oil change time.
I am half way to Boston right now. Part of my trip so far has been far from lazy. The engine has seen plenty of between 4-5K RPMs going up the mountain passes and elevations in Utah and especially Colorado (Vail). She was screaming at some points. But the Vibe handled it and I’m sure the 5w30 did so as well. I’m currently in Nebraska now and the drive is a lazy 70-75 miles per hr on cruise control. I may go w 10w30 on th drive back which will be in late June / early July.Any modern fully synthetic oil is going to be just great. A long, lazy highway haul for hours on end with the engine at temperature and light throttle angles is as ideal as it gets.
Pick and use a quality name brand, filter of adequate specifications and launch it!
If you stand on the throttle on end for hours at a time and race it ragged and raw, plow snow with it, or short trip it under 30miles/minutes in stop and go traffic or gridlock?
Use the same good oil of known quality and filter, just check the oil level more often,treat it like it was on severe schedule and change it more frequently.
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