Hello BITOG community looking for an oil recommendation! Now, before I
get into the details I will say that I am currently heavily eyeballing
Amsoil 10W-30 at the moment. I do prefer synthetic, So without further ado:
I drive a 2009 Scion tC I drive civilized about 70% of the time and the
remaining 30% I would say is spirited driving (no racing or breaking speed
limits though... rarely anyway). I live in west Texas so it's hot and dry
99% of the time. My daily drive consists of 8 miles to school at 7 a.m. then
8 miles on the way home at noon mixed city/highway. Then in the afternoon I
go to work, which is delivering pizza. lots of short trips between 3-8 miles.
occasionally I'll leave my car on between deliveries if the business is booming.
the drive to work is mostly highway, about 15 miles to then 15 miles home.
That's pretty much about 3 days out of the week. Weekends don't see the school
trip and two weekdays don't see the work trips. It's currently at 99.5k miles.
The owners manual states to use any API certified oil of 0W-20 or 5W-20 weights
to be changed at 4500mi/3mo. whichever comes first. The engine is a 2AZ-FE which
has the controversial oil consumption issue, luckily for me, the only time my
engine likes to burn oil is when I'm in the high RPMs with VVTi going. So,
typically if I don't ever go past 4500 RPMs the engine typically doesn't burn
any oil. I do like driving it though so I would like to burn less oil when I do
drive enthusiastically. I'm currently adding anywhere between 1/2 qt to 1 qt at
around mile 2000 (halfway through the cycle basically) based on how spirited
I've been driving that cycle. I'm sure I wouldn't have to add anything if I
drove like a grandma but... That's just not me.
I checked out some of the Scion forums and what a good amount of experienced
people there said was to get pick a good synthetic with low volatility, I'm
currently running Pennzoil Ultra Platinum 10w-30 and I love it but I heard it's
got a relatively high volatility rating. I'd like to bring that down to see if
it helps my high revving consumption issues. Sorry for the dissertation guys if
you're still reading bless your heart for helping a guy out.
get into the details I will say that I am currently heavily eyeballing
Amsoil 10W-30 at the moment. I do prefer synthetic, So without further ado:
I drive a 2009 Scion tC I drive civilized about 70% of the time and the
remaining 30% I would say is spirited driving (no racing or breaking speed
limits though... rarely anyway). I live in west Texas so it's hot and dry
99% of the time. My daily drive consists of 8 miles to school at 7 a.m. then
8 miles on the way home at noon mixed city/highway. Then in the afternoon I
go to work, which is delivering pizza. lots of short trips between 3-8 miles.
occasionally I'll leave my car on between deliveries if the business is booming.
the drive to work is mostly highway, about 15 miles to then 15 miles home.
That's pretty much about 3 days out of the week. Weekends don't see the school
trip and two weekdays don't see the work trips. It's currently at 99.5k miles.
The owners manual states to use any API certified oil of 0W-20 or 5W-20 weights
to be changed at 4500mi/3mo. whichever comes first. The engine is a 2AZ-FE which
has the controversial oil consumption issue, luckily for me, the only time my
engine likes to burn oil is when I'm in the high RPMs with VVTi going. So,
typically if I don't ever go past 4500 RPMs the engine typically doesn't burn
any oil. I do like driving it though so I would like to burn less oil when I do
drive enthusiastically. I'm currently adding anywhere between 1/2 qt to 1 qt at
around mile 2000 (halfway through the cycle basically) based on how spirited
I've been driving that cycle. I'm sure I wouldn't have to add anything if I
drove like a grandma but... That's just not me.
I checked out some of the Scion forums and what a good amount of experienced
people there said was to get pick a good synthetic with low volatility, I'm
currently running Pennzoil Ultra Platinum 10w-30 and I love it but I heard it's
got a relatively high volatility rating. I'd like to bring that down to see if
it helps my high revving consumption issues. Sorry for the dissertation guys if
you're still reading bless your heart for helping a guy out.