I've mentioned this before but the proof that you can mix it all together and it's totally fine is my friend's 2007 Crown Vic P71 that he absolutely beats on. In fact, his engine runs quieter than mine...
The gauge cluster has been replaced but it's got somewhere between 175-200k miles at this point. Every time he has time to make the trip down here he gets a Microgard 51372 and whatever comes out of my bucket of oil leftovers. What ends up in that bucket? Well anytime someone gives me extra oil, or we have a leaking container of oil at the store, etc. I pour it in there. It's a soup of all sorts of different oils ranging from 0w-20 synthetic to 10w-30 conventional and really anything in between.
Our schedules and the weather don't always work out (we intend to do oil changes at 7500 miles, lol) and this time around it was about 5 months and almost 12000 miles. it does use a little oil (probably because he likes to drive at full throttle a little too much), so maybe 2 quarts were added during that time, and it was maybe half a quart low when I got it in for the oil change. And yes, I overfilled it about half a quart.
I'll be excited to share how that Microgard looks when I cut it open tomorrow. And no, there's no more timing chain rattle at startup despite the long OCIs and Microgard filters than any of the 3 Vics I've owned including my current one.
I did my oil change right after his and we were laughing about the fact that his car happily goes 12k on that random oil soup and here I am pouring AMSOIL into mine... I think we all worry about oil choice and OCIs a little too much.
The gauge cluster has been replaced but it's got somewhere between 175-200k miles at this point. Every time he has time to make the trip down here he gets a Microgard 51372 and whatever comes out of my bucket of oil leftovers. What ends up in that bucket? Well anytime someone gives me extra oil, or we have a leaking container of oil at the store, etc. I pour it in there. It's a soup of all sorts of different oils ranging from 0w-20 synthetic to 10w-30 conventional and really anything in between.
Our schedules and the weather don't always work out (we intend to do oil changes at 7500 miles, lol) and this time around it was about 5 months and almost 12000 miles. it does use a little oil (probably because he likes to drive at full throttle a little too much), so maybe 2 quarts were added during that time, and it was maybe half a quart low when I got it in for the oil change. And yes, I overfilled it about half a quart.
I'll be excited to share how that Microgard looks when I cut it open tomorrow. And no, there's no more timing chain rattle at startup despite the long OCIs and Microgard filters than any of the 3 Vics I've owned including my current one.
I did my oil change right after his and we were laughing about the fact that his car happily goes 12k on that random oil soup and here I am pouring AMSOIL into mine... I think we all worry about oil choice and OCIs a little too much.
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