Ok I my car now has 78,xxx miles. I was thinkin about running this in my car. Will it help my car out any? Should I swap it over to synthetic high mileage? and if so should I still change every 3K miles?
2009 Ford Mustang V6
Ive got 146,000 kms on my 2001 cavalier, I just started using synthetic oil 20,000 kms ago, Never had any issues since, Everything is working great, Runs alot better with synthetic oil. I like castro or Vavoline.
I switched my 98 over at 70K and my 02 at 90K. Both are 2200's and both showed great improvement with no leaks of any kind. The difference is really obvious in the winter. The engine just shrugs off the cold, you don't get any nasty tapping and oil starts flowing immediately. When you first switch over, empty a can of engine flush into the crankcase, idle for 5 minutes then drain it all so you can get a lot of the gunk out of there. If you go to synthetic be sure to stay with full synthetic and stay away from any blends. Also, don't use any additives like slick 50, just around 4.5 quarts of full synthetic and you're set. Also think about using a high quality filter like PureOne, Fram is crap.
2002 Cavalier 2200 5spd
If you've kept a regular oil change schedule, then those 'high mileage' oils are a lot of hokey. Keep doing what you're doing, maybe up oil to next weight for summer only, or year 'round depending on how old your engine is. Or, you could switch over to synth IF you still good compression in a high mile engine.
I never use fram filters. The cheepo ones are better. the frams drain back and then you end up with dry start if the car sits any amount of time. I usually use a pureone filter or delco.
2009 Ford Mustang V6
The best filters by far are the supertech walmart brand filters. just look inside one of them and then the inside of a fram. Hardly any restriction in the supertech unlike the fram AND it's filtering percentage is higher.
I recomment you switch over to full synthetic not the high mileage. The high mileage just has some stop leak added into it to keep seals from drying out. If you use synthetic it's got the same stuff and it's more environmentally friendly and has much better anti friction properties and detergents to keep your engine clean PLUS you don't have to change it but once every 10,000 miles not 3,000 like fossil oils. I've lost 5psi compression over 200,000 miles with synthetic and still no leaks...Need I say more?
oh yeah...Rotella T shell synthetic is cheap and works just as well as the others if your on a budget. That's what the semi trucks use that get over a million miles on them before they're retired.
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'96 Cavalier Good ol' Pushrod 2.2
-24X,000 miles on factory build
-Some oil loss between changes, me thinks it be rings.
