Hi all,
Long, long, longtime lurker, first time poster. I've been reading up on oil for the past 6 years or so, and I need a recommendation for my current daily driver.
It's a 2007 Acura TL Type S (J35 11:1 compression ratio) and it has 123k miles on it. I got it with 111k miles on it. I'm the second owner. Original owner had 9-10k OCI based on service records that came with the car, probably based off of the maintenance minder. Anyway, when I got it, I noticed I was losing a little oil between my first oil change and when I bought it. It was about a quart every 1500 miles. Within spec according to Honda, but still not to my liking.
Had a compression test and leakdown test completed and all results came back well within the normal and optimal range(s). I know its either losing oil at the rings or the valve guides. But I'm not really looking to contain the oil consumption, although if I could minimize it, that would be nice.
So, I switched from 5w20 Mobil 1 to Penzoil Yellow Bottle (just to see if the oil consumption would increase) and low and behold, the consumption went down to 1qt per 2000 miles.
So I want to switch back to synthetic... just looking for good options, preferably with a good add pack and low NOACK. I was going to get Pennzoil Ultra, but when I checked up on it again (from a few years ago) it seems like its changed quite a bit.
So, any suggestions? I'm not expecting consumption to magically go away (although the Amsoil fanboys in my Acura forum would like me to believe that Amsoil will fix all my problems). I'd like to go with something commercially available off the shelf due to the need of maybe needing some to top off at times.
I'm open to suggestions. I want to go with 5-6k OCIs. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Long, long, longtime lurker, first time poster. I've been reading up on oil for the past 6 years or so, and I need a recommendation for my current daily driver.
It's a 2007 Acura TL Type S (J35 11:1 compression ratio) and it has 123k miles on it. I got it with 111k miles on it. I'm the second owner. Original owner had 9-10k OCI based on service records that came with the car, probably based off of the maintenance minder. Anyway, when I got it, I noticed I was losing a little oil between my first oil change and when I bought it. It was about a quart every 1500 miles. Within spec according to Honda, but still not to my liking.
Had a compression test and leakdown test completed and all results came back well within the normal and optimal range(s). I know its either losing oil at the rings or the valve guides. But I'm not really looking to contain the oil consumption, although if I could minimize it, that would be nice.
So, I switched from 5w20 Mobil 1 to Penzoil Yellow Bottle (just to see if the oil consumption would increase) and low and behold, the consumption went down to 1qt per 2000 miles.
So I want to switch back to synthetic... just looking for good options, preferably with a good add pack and low NOACK. I was going to get Pennzoil Ultra, but when I checked up on it again (from a few years ago) it seems like its changed quite a bit.
So, any suggestions? I'm not expecting consumption to magically go away (although the Amsoil fanboys in my Acura forum would like me to believe that Amsoil will fix all my problems). I'd like to go with something commercially available off the shelf due to the need of maybe needing some to top off at times.
I'm open to suggestions. I want to go with 5-6k OCIs. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
