Posted by Steven f/AZ on April 07, 2008 at 07:32:06 from (216.67.213.217):
In Reply to: motor oil posted by macco on April 06, 2008 at 16:36:38:
Well, a little bit of everything gets run in our family...
I run Mobil 1 5w-20 in the Honda Accord 2.3 four banger, 5 or 6k between changes. Mobil 1 10w-30 in the Dodge Grand Caravan 3.8 v-6, 5k between changes. Mobil 5000 in my 51 IH L-120, changed every two years or so. Mobil Delvac 1 5w-40 in my Farmall H, change once a year. All of the other tractors at the farm get CaseIH 15w-40 diesel oil, changed at 75 to 100 hours.
Dad runs Motorcraft semi-synthetic 5w-20 in the 05 F-150 and 5w-30 in the 98 F-150. He usually runs them 3 to 4k miles.
Mom's Buick gets whatever the oil change place in town puts in it. She gets it changed with the oil life monitor falls below 10%, which usually equates to at least 5k.
Brother puts Shell Rotella 15w-40 in the 98 and 06 Dodge Cummins.
All of the small engines on augers, tillers, etc. get Mobil 5000 10w-30 in them. The newest riding lawnmower gets Mobil1 10w-30.
I've had many different vehicles over the years, and until I started spending more than a couple thousand on the purchase price I just put in whatever was the cheapest off the shelf at Wally World, along with the Fram filters. NEVER had a problem, never had a filter go bad, never lost oil pressure, never blew up an engine (and I ran stuff pretty hard). My 95 Thunderbird with 4.6 OHC v-8 would blow some smoke after idling a bit, but that was due to a poor design on the valve seals, not the cheapo oil.
As a matter of fact, I can't say that any vehicle or tractor or engine that anyone in my family has ever owned suffered from an oil related failure, EVER.
Now that I have invested a considerable amount of $$ in newer vehicles, and the fact that I live in a climate where temps average 120 degrees in the summer, along with steep mountain grades - I feel the extra protection of full synthetic is worth it to me. With the extended drain intervals I'm not spending that much more.
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