Best Motor Oil for your Toyota, and coolant too Options

[hurley97]

If you had any questions as to what kind of oil and/or coolant is best for your Toyota, this might help.
Its from a Toyota Complete Maintenance Care booklet they gave to the Service Advisors at the dealerships...

6 out of 10 [Toyota] vehicles come with Exxon Mobil as "factory fill"

[laff09]

Ok.. Why would one use full synthetic on a 13 year old motor with original seals/gaskets sans valve cover gasket? For my application and experience using BOTH brands NUMEROUS times, GTX takes the cake. Mobil 1, your normal 10w-30 Mobil 1, burns up quicker than GTX..in my experience. So I'll continue to use GTX until I find something better or decide to reseal my engine
Im looking to keep the oil in my engine, not all over my white driveway. hehe.

Not tryna clog this thread up anymore

This post has been edited by laff09: Jun 29, 2007 - 6:05 PM

[presure2]

Ok.. Why would one use full synthetic on a 13 year old motor with original seals/gaskets sans valve cover gasket? For my application and experience using BOTH brands NUMEROUS times, GTX takes the cake. Mobil 1, your normal 10w-30 Mobil 1, burns up quicker than GTX..in my experience. So I'll continue to use GTX until I find something better or decide to reseal my engine
Im looking to keep the oil in my engine, not all over my white driveway. hehe.

Not tryna clog this thread up anymore

so your basing your opinion on the fact that your engine is 10+ yrs old, and needs major mantinence?
lol
steff has the right idea.
if your having your car regularly seviced by toyota, (or better yet, learn to do it yourself!) chances are its not going to be leaking fuild all over your driveway and burning in your car.
just because castrol is thicker dont make it any better, thats for sure.
after seeing what my 150K engine looked like when i pulled it (yes, it was still running..and pretty decently actually) after using castrol for years, how black/red it was, i couldnt wait to get the newer, mobil1 fed all its life 5s.
i know this prolly aint the thread for this but, steff, you know me. i gotta do it...any chance to show these pics i do!! haha
ok so, heres what happens when you dont follow the mantinence schedual, pass on oil changes, run it low on oil, leaking ect, this is ~150K miles.


and here is what a well maintained, low milage (~52k miles) will look like when you use mobil1 as suggested by toyota.


ill take the latter, thanks.