I do my own oil. Running plane jane dyno oil now in my fit... only 800 miles on it though. After one oil change I will be switching to amsoil. I run it in all my cars. The nice thing, all my cars use the same oil filters.

2005 Xterra - 10w30 amsoil. Filter change every 2500 and top off oil. Full oil change in April and November

1998 mazda protege - 10w30 amsoil. Filter change every 2500 and top off oil. Full oil change in April and November

2004 Nissan 350Z - 10w40 amsoil. Full change every 3K. Note the car is built with a twin turbo conversion

2008 Honda fit - 5w20 valvoline <- on sale at autozone. Will be switching to 0w20 amsoil in a few thousand miles

 

I've been a casual browser over there for the past 8 or 9 years . . . ever since I started seriously looking at what I put into my car when I bought my Prelude in 2000.

I must be reading different threads than you. Care to elaborate?

 

you sir are a lier...8-9 years ago that site didnt even exist
and if you did read any threads you would have seen the UOA's where it shows ams oil does no better then any other synthetic

 

I just spent a 1/2 hour there reading through the uoa reports with amsoil. I would say everyone was pleased with the results.

 

Do my own. Gives me chance to check other things and get ideas of what mod to do next. hehehe. A royal purple user here.

 

eh, my mistake. I started getting regular Blackstone oil reports after I bought the Prelude, that was summer of 2000. Must not have had that site as a resource at the time.

Oh, and thanks for leaping immediately to the most derogatory explanation for my post. I'm curious, do you talk like this to people in person?


Likewise. I've never seen a bad report from the stuff. Although for what it's worth, I am only a casual browser over there . . . I generally will just check things out a couple weeks before I need to do an oil change, see if there's anything I'm missing out on. So yeah, only like once or twice a year . . . :laugh:

And sure, there is more than one good oil out there. But it may be semantics, but I don't like how group III synthetics are labeled as "full synthetics". It makes me happy to know that my synthetic didn't come from an oil well.

 

Fourth oil change. First three done at the dealer.

This one done myself

Honda 5w-20 oil
Honda filter
32K

 

Eneos 0-20 and purolator filter. Change intervals of about 6k miles, oil hardly looks dirty when changed!

 

Do my own, royal purple, and k&n, because I like the redline

 

my 15% came on yesterday on my FitS so i need to do my FitS, G35C, and MINI this month.

by far the Fit is the easiest of them all. G35C is easy but taking
off the plastic plate is time consuming. MINI is just a pita to
get the filter canister back on at times. sometimes it just pops
back on, sometimes im sitting there push/twist for a while...

 

Mobil 1 0W-20 and NAPA Gold filters, and I do the change at around 10% on the maint. monitor. I'm seriously considering sending in an oil sample for analysis, just to see what the results are like.
Tom

 

Quaker State Synthetic, OEM oil filter, when the service minder pops up. At 7-8k miles, the oil still looks pretty clean. I also use Lucas Oil Stabilizer and Marvel mystery oil in oil, and marvel and Fuel system cleaner every oil change. The engines on my vehicles are so clean you could eat off of them. Just helps the car last longer. Got about 30k on the car after one year, and my fuel mileage is improving in the last few tanks. Last tank was 38.4mpg while for the longest time 33mpg was as high as I could get regardless of driving technique. The cars seem to run better once they are broken in, just like honda bikes tend to gain power(a couple HP) with high mileage.

 

Mobil 1 0w-20 every 5k-ish miles. I dont play by the meter.
Honda or HAMP filters.
(I also use 2 bottles of 5w-20(any cheap brand) to flush the old oil before I put in the Mobil.)

I use to use Motul 0w-20, but it got pricey after a year haha.

 

I use Mobile 1 synthetic and K & N filter.
Switching to HAMP filter the next time through.