Best oil to use!

[rmahnovetsky]

I was talking to a friend at work today and little did I know he used to be an engine oil tester for 5 years. Woohoo!! He got bored of the job and became a software engineer instead Well everything I wanted to know about oil was just a footstep away. So out came the questions.

1) What is the best oil to use?

2) Is synthetic better then normal oil?

3) What about additives -> slick 50 that PTFE stuff etc?

1) & 2) Mobil 1 ... Yep there you have it guys mobil 1 is the best stuff on the market it also comes at a price too!!! Why it is the best well, one of the mining companies did a test to find out which oil had the best engine protection. They used a fleet of brand new commodores for their tests and at every 1000 klms an oil check was done. What was noticed is up to ~4000ks all synthetic oils were pretty much neck and neck and the normal oils were down a little but not by much! - They were still good oils! After this time Mobil 1 pretty much had the same amount of protection for up to 10 000ks. The other oils quality slowly started degrading and more and more wear was noticed at each oil check up.

3) He did his own test with slick 50 and found it to be a waste of money!! Using synthetic oil, he found there to be the same amount of metal in the samples with and without the additive. 

So I asked him what was his recommendation was when changing oil. He replied if you really want the best and have the money! Then go with Mobil 1, but personally it is not necessary unless your planning on changing the oil every 10 000ks. Otherwise buy fully synthetic oil (any will do as long as it is fully synthetic) and change you oil every 5000 klms. This will give you the optimum distant for you motor.

Hope this helps some of you guys who are confused with oils and additives.

[4door_Sleeper]

Let the fun begin

My oil is better than yours because .........

Asking what oil is best is a bit like asking what colour looks best.

I use a fucs full synthetic and change it every 10000 km (yes I am slack). I pay a bit more but hope the protection is worth it.

[kingscorp]

What ever blows your hair back!

[(B1) MR_fanny]

thats good to hear.

i personaly change mine every 5000ks so ill stick to my semi synth motul turbolight:D:D

[Sumo]

I concur with Mr-Fanny.

I use Motul turbolight (next change im going to motul 6100) and my lifters have completely stopped tap dancing. Nothing short of pleased with this product.

Cheers

Sumo

[paully_tee]

lol, redline......

[PTR33]

Another vote hete for 4100 turbolight at 5000km. However this time the local Autobarn were out of stock and mainly because I couldn't be arsed going somewhere else and I was about 500km overdue already I bought Motul 8100 x-cess. Couldn't claim to have noticed any difference and it was 20bux more.

Interesting point; If you change you oil and filter at 5000km and ise sonething like 4100... It costs you 1cent per kilometer for oil. Betcha didn't know that.

[Ronin 09]

Motul 300V

Though I have heard very very good reports about Catrol Formula-R...