SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Did I really do that? OOPs we have done with our vehicles over time ......
Talking n thinking about all of this different grades has reminded me of what seemed insane at the time. When we first got our longest lasting car (kept for 18 years - daily driver service too) that wife drove to work all those years I did a bone headed stunt.
I was prepping for vacation that was going to be a 2800 to 3000 mi round trip in 2 weeks. - We were going to use the new 2002 Honda Accord that maybe had 6000 to 8000 mi on it at the time I did what I considered after the fact a real blunder. Too busy with all kind of
things I decided to have WalMart change the oil and balance + rotate tires. Got it done. Wrote it all down in my service record book etc...
So we go on the trip and I did kind of remarked , "we dont seem to be getting the awesome highway/cruise control mpg we had been used to since we got this car?" "It did feel a bit sluggish but we were driving all over in the mountains so I put it off to that. Oh well. Got home and did what I have done since the early 80s after highway vacations - CHANGED the OIL. When I opened my service book , it hit me right away. Seemed that instead of using my usual Royal Purple 05w20 like I had been since new, I somehow asked them to give me an oil change of Royal Purple 20w50! What did that do? Not a thing I am aware of since we kept that Ever Ready Bunny of a car for another 17 years and only once did I have the valves adjusted when we did the water pump , all the belts n hoses mid way owning it. The only repairs I ever had to do on that car was swap out a radiator about a year before the wife finally gave it up for a trade in. I was using Royal Purple at the time as it was the big new deal at work that we switched to using on all the compressor and turbines etc... and extended all of our overhaul frequencies because when we opened the machines they were clean with like new bearings. So I was using it for 7500mi oci and was getting it for a discount from the salesman who sold it to us at work. So from 05w20 to 20w50 with only a noticed drop in mpg. Happy I did not damage something under warranty with that stunt.
Talking n thinking about all of this different grades has reminded me of what seemed insane at the time. When we first got our longest lasting car (kept for 18 years - daily driver service too) that wife drove to work all those years I did a bone headed stunt.
I was prepping for vacation that was going to be a 2800 to 3000 mi round trip in 2 weeks. - We were going to use the new 2002 Honda Accord that maybe had 6000 to 8000 mi on it at the time I did what I considered after the fact a real blunder. Too busy with all kind of
things I decided to have WalMart change the oil and balance + rotate tires. Got it done. Wrote it all down in my service record book etc...
So we go on the trip and I did kind of remarked , "we dont seem to be getting the awesome highway/cruise control mpg we had been used to since we got this car?" "It did feel a bit sluggish but we were driving all over in the mountains so I put it off to that. Oh well. Got home and did what I have done since the early 80s after highway vacations - CHANGED the OIL. When I opened my service book , it hit me right away. Seemed that instead of using my usual Royal Purple 05w20 like I had been since new, I somehow asked them to give me an oil change of Royal Purple 20w50! What did that do? Not a thing I am aware of since we kept that Ever Ready Bunny of a car for another 17 years and only once did I have the valves adjusted when we did the water pump , all the belts n hoses mid way owning it. The only repairs I ever had to do on that car was swap out a radiator about a year before the wife finally gave it up for a trade in. I was using Royal Purple at the time as it was the big new deal at work that we switched to using on all the compressor and turbines etc... and extended all of our overhaul frequencies because when we opened the machines they were clean with like new bearings. So I was using it for 7500mi oci and was getting it for a discount from the salesman who sold it to us at work. So from 05w20 to 20w50 with only a noticed drop in mpg. Happy I did not damage something under warranty with that stunt.