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"

[lagos]

a lot of car manufactures are recommending mobil one these days. new evos, and even some porsches have "mobil one only" right on their oil cap. part of me thinks this is great, while another part of me wonders how much of that is a marketing idea. i mean, while its a great product, mobil had to have paid toyota some money for them to say that.

my current theory on motor oils is this:
if you have a motor, thats in good shape, help keep it that way with a synthetic like mobil one.

if your motor has a lot of miles and has a been on cheap oil all its life, then the damage is probably already done and there is not a whole lot you can do.

over all, the most important thing to do is to change your oil right at 2-3000 miles, regardless of the brand.

[Delta_Phoenix]

been using GTX HM 10w-30 for about 75,000 miles now, and still runs like a sewing machine. i'd love to run the mobil 15,000 mile synthetic or whatever, but 180,000+ miles on the 7a makes me expect massive burnoff.

it comes down to personal pref. i guess. i'll trust any oil that sponsors and has success with F1 cars (Castrol, Mobil, Valvoline), but i've had a good experience with castrol. the only oil i've ever heard negative comments about is quaker-state. i've been working at autozone for over a month, and haven't seen 1 quart of quaker go out the door. i just sold 90 bucks worth of castrol syntec the other day.

and if you'll remember, the WRC 6th gen was covered in castrol decals