I retired my trusty Nissan Frontier earlier this year for a '17 Nissan Titan with the 5.6 gas engine. This is my first experience with a DI engine, so I'm looking for any advice people might have. It specs 0w20 oil, but I could have sworn I read somewhere in the manual where 5w30 was "acceptable".
I ran my Frontier 200K miles on 7.5K OCIs with PP. It worked well based on the UOA's I had, but....the Titan has a 100,000 mile warranty, and a 5K specified OCI. I'm going to follow that OCI just to make sure I'm covered from a warranty perspective. At this point, I was just planning on buying whatever 0w20 was on sale and rolling with it. I'd assume with the 5K interval, that synthetic blends would be fine if I can't score a rebate on full synthetic? I've taken advantage of the Mobil 1 rebates to pick up my first oil change, so I'm set there.
I buy Top Tier fuel pretty much exclusively. Kwik Trip, Costco, and Cenex primarily.
I'd considered running Techron in advance of every OCI, just to try and keep the valves cleaned up. Any thoughts on that?
Any other general advice to avoid any DI associated problems? Tips? Things to watch for? I really like the truck so far, hoping to keep it to 200K like the Frontier if all goes well.
I ran my Frontier 200K miles on 7.5K OCIs with PP. It worked well based on the UOA's I had, but....the Titan has a 100,000 mile warranty, and a 5K specified OCI. I'm going to follow that OCI just to make sure I'm covered from a warranty perspective. At this point, I was just planning on buying whatever 0w20 was on sale and rolling with it. I'd assume with the 5K interval, that synthetic blends would be fine if I can't score a rebate on full synthetic? I've taken advantage of the Mobil 1 rebates to pick up my first oil change, so I'm set there.
I buy Top Tier fuel pretty much exclusively. Kwik Trip, Costco, and Cenex primarily.
I'd considered running Techron in advance of every OCI, just to try and keep the valves cleaned up. Any thoughts on that?
Any other general advice to avoid any DI associated problems? Tips? Things to watch for? I really like the truck so far, hoping to keep it to 200K like the Frontier if all goes well.
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