I have seen it too many times to count!! A lot of Toyota Dealerships in the souths will not even keep 5W30 on hand and surely will not get it in bulk .
I have a 2005 Corolla too, ran factory fill to like 2000 miles, ran SuperTech 5W-30 to 4800 miles, and am using 3) 5W-30 M1 and 1) 0W-30 M1 with a couple ounces of Valvoline SynPower Oil Treatment. I have about 7000 miles on now, and haven't used a drop in those 2000 miles. I do a lot of two and four lane highway driving for work, probably about 1/4 of the time at 70mph. I plan on getting a UOA at 5000 miles and leaving it in according to those recommendatations.quote:
Originally posted by Bill in Utah:
I have a 2005 Corolla with the 1.8 and drive it mostly at 70 mph (2900 rpm) and with 10,500 miles on the engine,
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I wonder if going to Mobil 1 would the makeup oil useage get worst since it's thinner???
I need help....
Cheers, Bill
I always thought the American Toyota's were made for US driving conditions and not in Japan.quote:
Toyota's have always liked 40Wt.'s and in Japan they recomend 5W40 for just about everything they make.
Already have long ago with no change in condition.quote:
Originally posted by Amkeer:
Hoot,
Change the PCV if you havn't already.
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Wow, you really need to know when to use thick heavy oils like that.quote:
Originally posted by Hootbro:
My wifes 1998 Corolla has always used oil. Bought it with 38K on the odometer and discovered it used almost 1 qt per 1000 miles. Never any smoke out the tail or puddles on the ground. Has always been a mystery. Only fault is that it throws the check engine light about every 70K for the O2 sensors, which is when they are recommended to be changed anyway. Currently going on 170K with no other problems. Due to the oil usage, have used whatever is cheapest. Mainly that has been the Wally World Super tech stuff. Slowly have progress up from using 5W-30, 10W-30, 10W-40 and now am using 15W-40 HDEO Supertech. the 15W-40 seems to have slowed down the oil usage problem but it is still there. May try 20W-50 next change and now that what "winter" we get in South Texas has past.
Hootbro
I wish they sold the oil here. It sounds like a great oil.quote:
I use 0-40 in my Cummins Dodge and 0-30 in my Nissan, at about $4.00 per liter, cant be beat. 100% POA, the 0-30 has TBN of 12.2 and Visc. at 100C of 12, the 0-40 is visc of 15.7, but QuickLude may point out the 0-30 did great for him. XD3 is CI-4/SL, it is for gassers.
Not really sweating that. Other than the oil usage issue, the car has been bullet proof. Just hate having to add a quart every 700-1000 miles. Wife drove the **** out of it in her home health job. Had a hard enough time keeping up with the oil changes. It average between 5K-7K on the total oil and filter change. Figured the law of diminishing returns with the makeup oil did not make it any worse going out farther on the oil change interval. Plus that is why I always stuck to the cheaper Supertech stuff. The car is now in semi-retirement not being driven much and the wife using another car for her desk job. Probably going to give it to my daughter who will more than likely trash it in a week.quote:
Originally posted by BlazerLT:
Wow, you really need to know when to use thick heavy oils like that.
20w50 in a 4 banger is pretty ridiculous.