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Today I did something to my car (volume 2)
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No surprise tbh. I never did either, since I've been noticed what oil companies now are trying to sell as "syntethic" oil.Toyotafanboi wrote: »I would never have thought to cross check the German Mobil site for lies tbh :pac:
http://www.technilube.com/faqs_info/synth_diff.phpToyotafanboi wrote: »It does say that Super 3000 XE is based on "HC-Synthese" which i'm still not sure of what is meant by that.
This one?Toyotafanboi wrote: »The oil I used is Super 3000 FE which doesn't say anything about "HC-Synthese"...
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Toyotafanboi wrote: »That's a bit odd. Mine's the exact same but says "Fully Synthetic".
I've done my last 4 oil changes with it and the car seems.to be going well on it.
Both say ford 913c and 913d which is fully synthetic.0 -
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That's why I'm sure they lie.Toyotafanboi wrote: »That's a bit odd. Mine's the exact same but says "Fully Synthetic". [...]Toyotafanboi wrote: »I've done my last 4 oil changes with it and the car seems.to be going well on it.
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Sadly PAO based oils are very rare today, I'd say 99.99% of the "fullly synthetic" are not really so fully as advertised.
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Toyotafanboi wrote: »No, Jou
You probably use something similar in the C-Max anyway?
In the what now? Stop stop, just stop - I have a 3l V6 Jaguar, and I use Castrol Magnatec 5W-30 C3, which is a Group III synthetic, i.e. hydrocracked.0 -
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Nothing special. She burns 0.75 litre of oil a week, so doesn't really matter what I pour into it.Toyotafanboi wrote: »For Heavens sake man, what do you use in your VVTi?
But I know (read loads of scary stories) how important is to have a right oil to 2ZZ-GE engine so once again I couldn't resist (many times said to myself "shuttafcukup and say nothing'bout oils in this forum") and that's what happened.
Stupid me.
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Nothing special. She burns 0.75 litre of oil a week, so doesn't really matter what I pour into it....
Right. So if the two of ye are ile-biler VVTi merchants, ye'd be wanting to look at the HTHS rating of oils. Not the Holy Trinity High-School, but the High-Temp High-Shear rating, which enables the oil to better deal with the hot-spot abuse in there. This ability is traditionally to be found in the horrifically expensive Group IV synthetics.
EDIT: A-ha - I knew mentioned that before:
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Well it's a discussion forum for discussing stuff so I am curious.
I've read a lot about the problems with the 2zz too which is why I wanted the long oil filter I also did a fair bit of research into the oil choice (awaiting some to say why didn't I get a genuine filter ). Like I say, check any of the non biased oil guides like bobistheoilguy, opie or halfords, that one is the most recommended for the 2zz. That combined with the fact that the OE oil with Toyota is Mobil made me think that it was a good call.
Maybe, maybe not. The car does 4k miles a month on this stuff, which is around 4 hours a day most of that at motorway speeds 3-4k rpm and over the course of the month it burns between 250-500ml which is ok for an engine with 260k kms. Maybe it is bad for it in the long run though and I am running it into the ground.
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Toyotafanboi wrote: »Well it's a discussion forum for discussing stuff so I am.curious.
I've read a lot about the problems with the 2zz too which is why I wanted the long oil filter I also did a fair bit of research into the oil choice (awaiting some to say why didn't I get a genuine filter ). Like I say, check any of the non biased oil guides like bobistheoilguy, opie or halfords, that one is the most recommended for the 2zz. That combined with the fact that the OE oil with Toyota is Mobil made me think that it was a good call.
Maybe, maybe not. The car does 4k miles a month on this stuff, which is around 4 hours a day most of that at motorway speeds 3-4k rpm and over the course of the month it burns between 250-500ml which is ok for an engine with 260k kms.
Not ranting, just discussing
Mine has 162,000 miles on it and burns about a litre of the cratur every 1,500 miles. It sounds to me like you don't really have a problem with your particular ile-biler, so there's no need to fix it. Drive on! 0 -
Mine has 162,000 miles on it and burns about a litre of the cratur every 1,500 miles. It sounds to me like you don't really have a problem with your particular ile-biler, so there's no need to fix it. Drive on!
I'd like to avoid future problem though so if I'm using an unsuitable product, i'm open to advice!0 -
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Consider Ravenol in the future. At least they're clear in terms of oil base - HC oils are marked so. And it's not very dear, especially when bought from Continent.
http://www.ravenol.de/en/products/usage/c/pkw-motorenoele-cleansyntoR/d/Product/search.html0 -
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Snotaul Goodman wrote: »Our half German half Limerish Doctor has the C-Max. Although I'm starting to think he's not really a Doctor :pac:
I should put a disclaimer in my sig.
Warning: may not be a real doctor. Not to be trusted or taken internally.0 -
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