Running conventional for a run or two

[Gunatics_Adler]

Well if you guys are broke and needed to run conventional for an oil change or two what would you recommend?

I was running Quaker State Q or Mobil 1 EP 5w30 in my 2.4 Yota.

I was thinking Mobil Clean 5000 or Pennzoil. What do you think?

 

[Boss302fan]

Valvoline

 

[ryan2022]

Castrol GTX would be a nice one.

Or try and track down some Kendal GT1 blend/ motorcraft/ trop artic. Itd be a good comprimise and about the price of the GTX

 

[ArtDart]

If I were broke, I'd run
QS green jug, $8.50 for 5qts ,
with a ST filter, @ Walmart.
An OC for a little over $10,
with only one stop......jr

 

[Gunatics_Adler]

Yeah I usually do short OCI just because its cheap insurance. However, thanks to some forced furloughs and temp layoffs at work, I am a little light in the wallet.

 

[coffee]

Originally Posted By: Ringo
If I were broke, I'd run
QS green jug, $8.50 for 5qts ,
with a ST filter, @ Walmart.
An OC for a little over $10,
with only one stop......jr


+1

 

[NightRiderQ45]

whatever the cheapest is!

 

[Bill in Utah]

Originally Posted By: Ringo
If I were broke, I'd run
QS green jug, $8.50 for 5qts ,
with a ST filter, @ Walmart.
An OC for a little over $10,
with only one stop......jr


I'm FAR from being broke (mostly because I don't waste my money on things that I don't NEED or no benefit from like certain types of oils

) and use QS Conventional oil and St filter. (along with other conventional oils)

Get well over 200k PLUS on every motor (and some with 300k+) I've ever had for over 30 YEARS. And todays oils are a lot better than yesterdays.

The Toyota will run just fine with any 5w30 oil and filter for a 5k OCI or 6 months whichever comes first.

Sorry to hear things are slowing down at work.

Take care, bill

 

[Gunatics_Adler]

Yeah I work at Iowa State University. Over the last two years they have chopped funding to the point where it was in 1996 with about 8k less students, and when the dollar went farther. I lose half a months pay so I need to stretch my rather meager salary even further.

Thanks for the advice. Im off to Wal Mart now to get some oil and a supertech filter.

 

[Alex38]

I'd also go with the QS! Hope things get better for you!

 

[Hokiefyd]

Originally Posted By: Bill in Utah

I'm FAR from being broke (mostly because I don't waste my money on things that I don't NEED or no benefit from like certain types of oils

) and use QS Conventional oil and St filter. (along with other conventional oils)


I was going to write something similar. I've got clearanced Havoline DS in my Corolla now, but do use any cheap conventional SM oil. I do use the OEM Toyota filter, only because it's less than 4 bucks at my local dealership. The oil and filters I use in this car, over the course of a year, don't even equal $20 lately.

If I had to buy new, the $8.50 Quaker State is good. PYB at $10.50 is also a great buy. Even with an OEM filter, you're at less than $15 every 5,000 miles. No reason to spend any more than that.

 

[mechtech2]

Motorcraft semi synth in the large jugs..

 

[joel95ex]

I ran supertech oil and filters forever until last year.....car has 343K miles on it. supertech at 3 or 4K OCI's IMO is good. it also seemed to work well with ARX when i used it. and if you DIY, it will be about 13 bucks

 

[fdcg27]

Lots of cheap alternatives.
Check out the rebates.
You can use pretty much any off the shelf oil pretty cheaply if you stock up when you can get it cheap.
Heck, you could be using PP or M1 0W-XX for a little bit of nothing had you taken advantage of the MIRs.
Meanwhile, any SM conventional should do just fine.
Consider, too, that the actual cost per mile for an average syn could be lower if you run it longer.
Now, if cost is a concern, a UOA is probably not in your immediate future, but you can certainly use the UOA section here to guide you in deciding what a reasonable OCI would be for any given oil in an application similar to your's.

 

[Gunatics_Adler]

Well the clerk at Wal Mart was marking up the oil when I got there. The days of 8.50 QS are over here. I ended up with Pennzoil High Mileage for 10.50 for 5 quarts and a supertech filter for 2.95 (also up in price).

Seems that higher oil and a plunging dollar are starting to take effect. All the prices went up 2 or more bucks per jug. I was going to go with Motorcraft but they did not have anything but 5w-20 and my local store stopped selling trop arctic.

 

[canadiantim]

Wow, sure wish oil in Canada was this price!

Ours has dropped a bit the last while but a gallon jug is in the $18-$24 range for name brand dinos at Walmart. The odd special might get you 5 quarts for that price. M1 sits at $11 a litre (bit more than a quart) and Amsoil is $14. Fram filters at Walmart are over $7! Canadian Tire has recycled 5w30 for just over $4 a litre. That's the cheapest I've seen up here.

 

[Petrou]

If i were broke and i am:
I would run the oil till the OLM came on 5k-7500 miles
Castrol GTX 5-30
Valvoline Synpower
But right now oreilly has a deal on Castrol, which is what i use
Syntec for 5$ a quart i think here, but i use synthetics so score
usually AC Delco filter, our shop is a AC Delco shop
or i would use wix

I have Edge in the truck now, i got it on sale for $6 a quart

 

[Herz]

Originally Posted By: Boss302fan
Valvoline


+1

 

[crinkles]

a 2.4 toyota??? heed bill in utah's advice.

 

[JohnBrowning]

Any of the name brand oils will be fine. The PYB claims it does some cleaning something like 15% on your first oil change maybe that is a selling point for you keeping things clean.