Which oil would you never use?

[river_rat]

Dino or synthetic, brands I will never use:
Pennzoil
Castrol
Quaker State
Valvoline
Havoline
Super Tech
Kendall
Motorcraft
Redline
Royal Purple
Shell
Amsoil
Mobil
Accel
anything Connoco/Phillips
Cam2
O'Reilly's
Autozone store brand
NAPA
Advance Auto store brand
Peak
Brad Penn
Schaefer
Your favorite oil
all others

 

[JustinC25]

Originally Posted By: river_rat
Dino or synthetic, brands I will never use:
Pennzoil
Castrol
Quaker State
Valvoline
Havoline
Super Tech
Kendall
Motorcraft
Redline
Royal Purple
Shell
Amsoil
Mobil
Accel
anything Connoco/Phillips
Cam2
O'Reilly's
Autozone store brand
NAPA
Advance Auto store brand
Peak
Brad Penn
Schaefer
Your favorite oil
all others

What are you currently running ?

 

[JustinC25]

Originally Posted By: Jason8691
Citgo oil, or anything made by Citgo. Hugo Chavez will never get another dime of my money.

+1

Never used Citgo lubes, and never will. (This being the reason)

 

[river_rat]

Originally Posted By: JustinC25
What are you currently running ?

I was just joking. I got Syntec in the truck, RP in the wife's car, and NAPA in the old van.

(...and on the shelf, I got Valvoline Synpower, Mobil 1, and maybe some PP left.)

 

[grease_monkey]

I would never use a non detergent oil

 

[grease_monkey]

Originally Posted By: river_rat
Dino or synthetic, brands I will never use:
Pennzoil
Castrol
Quaker State
Valvoline
Havoline
Super Tech
Kendall
Motorcraft
Redline
Royal Purple
Shell
Amsoil
Mobil
Accel
anything Connoco/Phillips
Cam2
O'Reilly's
Autozone store brand
NAPA
Advance Auto store brand
Peak
Brad Penn
Schaefer
Your favorite oil
all others

YEAH!

I am going to run 20W50 in my 2006 kia optima with the 2.4L

 

[Ankhmaat]

So after living on this site that suppose to have all the answers that you have not even asked yet, may I as why do you have more different oils than you have vehicles to put them in ?

How come you ahve not yet figured out the BEST OIL to use ???

 

[fdcg27]

With the cars I currently have, I have a use for any API SH, SJ, SL or SM.
Therefore, I would not use any oil not meeting at least API SH.
Naturally, I do have preferences, but at the right (dirt cheap) price point, either '97 could find itself running SH.
There aren't any API licensed junk oils, FWIR.
I think the only SL I have in my current stash is GC, which only comes as SL. I think everything else is SM.
If I came across some SL (or SH) at a really decent price, like well under a buck a quart, I wouldn't hesitate to buy it.

 

[ADFD1]

Mobil 1, and store brand oils.

 

[exranger06]

Synlube and non-detergent oils.

 

[SLCraig]

I would not use SuperTech. There are enough good oils out there at rock bottom prices, there is just no point in use WalMart oil in a vehicle I actually somewhat care about.

Any other regular mainstream brand is fairgame for me at least.

I've used

Formula Shell
Mobil 1
YB and PP
QS Conventional
Esso conventional
Valvoline conventional and All Climate
Castrol GTX/Syntec
Motomaster Formula 1 (conventional, synthetic), and "Supreme"

What I want to run at some point: Esso XD-3 and Maxlife Synthetic

 

[sprintman]

Hasn't been an oil made I wouldn't use. Clean oil and filter and any engine will just about run for ever imo.

 

[mitchcoyote]

Citgo

 

[coachditka]

Never use peanut or canola. Both have ruined my arteries.


I know people who have always had good luck with baby oil. But I don't know where the babies come from.

 

[SHAMUS]

ANY plain dino, and most (not all) blends. But there again, I'm a little weird.

 

[gaspo]

Amsoil

 

[chad8]

I saw some good old city star today at wholesale liquidators .Hey ,can it be all bad . It was rated sa.

 

[JonfromCB]

Anthing with a supermarket brand label
Whale oil
castor oil

 

[labman]

Any one based on an unsaturated vegetable oil. I spent 10 years of my life making paint out of them.

Try putting a little motor oil and some cooking oil on a hot surface exposed to the air. After a half hour, which do you want on your cylinder wall?

 

[cjhepburn]

Originally Posted By: labman
Any one based on an unsaturated vegetable oil. I spent 10 years of my life making paint out of them.

Try putting a little motor oil and some cooking oil on a hot surface exposed to the air. After a half hour, which do you want on your cylinder wall?

There are vegan motor oils?