Winter Oil Suggestion

[Black_Thunder]

My vote goes for Supertech Synthetic

 

[fpny]

I finally changed the oil on my daughter's Toyota 4x4 pickup using the Q Advanced Engine 5W30 synthetic oil last weekend. She came home this weekend and this morning when I went outside to start the truck, the air temperature at the time is about 22 degree F. The truck started without any problems, the only thing that I noticed is the engine seems to sound a little noisey on start up. I wonder it got something to do with the synthetic oil. I have never used synthetic oil in this truck since I bought it four years ago. The engine did quiet down after it warms up. Is this normal or is this somthing that I should be concerned about?

 

[dave1251]

It's nothing to be concerned with. If it's just a little start-up noise.

 

[Sparkman]

That depends on the nature of the sound and how quickly it dissipated. Was it just a few seconds of really bad noise? I have found that a bad ADBV can cause this. What kind of filter? If it takes longer to go away it may be piston slap.

FWIW I subject my Jeep to similar winter conditions and I chose to go with the relatively thin and extremely high VI Amsoil S2k 0w-30.

 

[fpny]

The filter that I used for this oil change is an OEM (Toyota) filter.

 

[williar]

For most engines I'd go with a good group IV/V synthetic 5w30. Such as Mobil1 (M1) or Pennzoil Platinum (PP).

 

[MNgopher]

Well, it looks like you chose. Out of the four you mentioned on hand, I would have used whichever one needed to leave the stash!

Honestly, an occasional -20F on a 5w30 dino is not the end of the world. If it were, most cars on the road in MN would never get anywhere in the winter.

The synthetics seem like a nice choice given the predominant short trip nature of the use of the vehicle, but I wouldn't have lost sleep over the dino choices either.