in the next couple weeks, whenever our schedules finally sync up, I'm gonna change the oil in my buddy's 03 Pontiac Vibe, which I'm sure you all know is really a Toyota matrix(same factory,only a handful of parts difference).
we know nothing of this car's history prior to the summer of '10, when he bought it with ~120k Mi., other than we've figured out it was in some sort of wreck, and the body work to the front end was shoddy and cheaply done (no fender liners, front passenger door window won;t operate b/c the internal structures that the motors mount to are all bent/broken. none of the angles/gaps around the hood line up/are even, etc.
Anywho, since he bought it, he's been trying to keep up with the oil changes, but he's not mechanically inclined enough to do them himself, the the current economy has kicked his butt enough, that he goes over a bit. currently using car to deliver pizza's, so plenty of miles getting racked up, his current OCI, the 3 month window still has better part of a month to go, the miles, due @139666, last check he was @ 141058. (yes,20k mostly city miles in little more than a year)
now that I've rambled a bit, what 5w30 would Y'all recommend, to clean this Toyota 1ZZ-FE up?
I have an k&n hp-1003 en route from amazon($9.30), and i have a 5 qt jug of Valvoline nextgen Maxlife 5w30, which is easily returnable, if you can recommend something better..
also, kinda a noob here, and not figuring out all the acronyms yet, so plain english please
we know nothing of this car's history prior to the summer of '10, when he bought it with ~120k Mi., other than we've figured out it was in some sort of wreck, and the body work to the front end was shoddy and cheaply done (no fender liners, front passenger door window won;t operate b/c the internal structures that the motors mount to are all bent/broken. none of the angles/gaps around the hood line up/are even, etc.
Anywho, since he bought it, he's been trying to keep up with the oil changes, but he's not mechanically inclined enough to do them himself, the the current economy has kicked his butt enough, that he goes over a bit. currently using car to deliver pizza's, so plenty of miles getting racked up, his current OCI, the 3 month window still has better part of a month to go, the miles, due @139666, last check he was @ 141058. (yes,20k mostly city miles in little more than a year)
now that I've rambled a bit, what 5w30 would Y'all recommend, to clean this Toyota 1ZZ-FE up?
I have an k&n hp-1003 en route from amazon($9.30), and i have a 5 qt jug of Valvoline nextgen Maxlife 5w30, which is easily returnable, if you can recommend something better..
also, kinda a noob here, and not figuring out all the acronyms yet, so plain english please
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