I have been doing a lot of reading on this forum so I decided to take the plunge and register. After all this reading, I decided to purchase some Amsoil for my car and truck. I’ve heard great things about it and my dad has been using it for some time now in his Corolla doing the 1 year/25,000 mile intervals with great success.
The truck is a 2004 Ford Ranger 4.0 SOHC with 129,000 miles on odometer and I’m the 3rd owner. I just put the Amsoil SS 0w-30 in today along with a new Motorcraft filter. The truck does get short tripped every day because I live 2 miles from work. I tend to use the remote start a few minutes before I leave for work and it typically never gets up to operating temperature before I get to work . The truck is pretty much my winter beater unless I’m going to some crazy off the beaten path fishing hole in the summer where a truck is needed. I guess my question with the truck is this: What should I start my OCI at since it sees so much short tripping? Should I do UOA’s on the oil to determine that? If so, when? 3000 miles/3 months?
Now onto the car, a 2013 Mustang Gt
that has about 14500 miles on it. It too gets short tripped but only in the summer and I definitely stretch out her legs about 3-4 times a week. I bought Amsoil SS 5w-20 for it to stay warranty friendly. Now my question for this car: It has a Oil Life Monitor on it, should I just follow that since the Amsoil SS definitely exceeds the recommended Motorcraft oil? Or, should I be sampling this oil as well?
Both my vehicles have those fumoto valves on them. Is that how you guys get oil samples?
The truck is a 2004 Ford Ranger 4.0 SOHC with 129,000 miles on odometer and I’m the 3rd owner. I just put the Amsoil SS 0w-30 in today along with a new Motorcraft filter. The truck does get short tripped every day because I live 2 miles from work. I tend to use the remote start a few minutes before I leave for work and it typically never gets up to operating temperature before I get to work . The truck is pretty much my winter beater unless I’m going to some crazy off the beaten path fishing hole in the summer where a truck is needed. I guess my question with the truck is this: What should I start my OCI at since it sees so much short tripping? Should I do UOA’s on the oil to determine that? If so, when? 3000 miles/3 months?
Now onto the car, a 2013 Mustang Gt
Both my vehicles have those fumoto valves on them. Is that how you guys get oil samples?