"..Says loads of racers use this same oil combination with great results.."
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To give credit when due, they did not specify which results they were after, maybe less bloat and farting at night was their great result.
Lt. Leary on Maxima.org forums has 440k miles on his 2009 Nissan Maxima (original engine 3.5L VQ DE) and original CVT. He bought it new September 2008. Mostly used Mobil1 5w30 vanilla with OE filters every 3k to 5k miles and Nissan CVT NS2 every 30k with external filter.
Given the advancement of oil manufacturing and good engine designs these days who needs to change oil to begin with? motor on and send another sample in 10k miles
These engines are easy on oil and I replace oil filter every OCI (Fram 7317 or Honda OEM). 5k with any Mobil 1 0w20 (I like the M1 EP HM 0w20) in the 2004.
Even 5w30 comes out like brown hot water from the Nissan in fairly less than 5k miles.
I'd bet oil has much life left in it, to be sure send sample for a test. They'll tell you that. And they'll also say next time try giving the car to a random person who doesn't give a flying f to the engine then test again.
Motor on with confidence.
If it was me I'd vote for one oil for food and engine. Why don't we use Virgin olive oil in cars? Plus it so much cleaner and can be recycled better going to our fry pan after one OCI
Walmart staff have no clue whatsoever in oils for online orders. I order M1 5w30 EP HM and then half an hour later they send "substitute available" to see their "substitute" is M1 5w30 EP non-HM.
These pics are like one soccer team gets out on the pitch and starts scoring goals when there's no opponent. Yeah that's a super team look they are scoring 😁
Probably Mobil1 would have achieved the same (or better result), or Supertech?
Kind of same boat as OP, in the Maximas you need summer weather and 1 hour drive with stop and go to have engine oil temp to like 210F at most. Of course on Auto mode these CVTs are fragile as s*** you don't wanna load on them with higher RPM for long.