Motor Oil changers...pick your poison.

What's your motor oil of choice...and why?

something else upon which we agree. I won't elaborate on just how sexy I might or might not find that, as there are rules here.

I always opt for the synthetic, for many reasons.

I love my car. It has high milage. I want it to last a long time. Besides, like pretty much every Saturn starts to do about ten minutes after leaving the lot, it burns a little oil. The synthetic keeps that to a minimum.

Unless it's that fancy new synthetic oil.

I get my oil changed at a place that uses Castrol. The oil doesn't make the difference but the service does. They've pointed out problems with my car that I didn't know about so I could fix them before they became very costly. They even made a minor repair on my car free of charge.

One fine day I was putting down the road in my Volkswagen, which was full of Castrol GTX, when the oil light came on. Oh fuck.

I got my ass to the side of the road as quick as I could and checked the oil...there was enough in there. I figured it was the sensor and drove home.

The next day I pulled the sensor to change it and, just on a whim, decided to pull the coil wire and crank the engine. Nothing came out of the sensor hole--which is right above the number-four main bearing. Double fuck.

A Volkswagen oil pump consists of two gears, one connected to the camshaft by means of a little shaft of its own. The little shaft had somehow shortened up and wasn't in its slot in the cam. I used my hydraulic press to shove the shaft just a little way out of the gear. It hooked up, the pump worked again, all was well. I dragged a magnet through the oil I drained out looking for metal shavings. Nothing.

This oil was capable of keeping the engine alive at 0psi oil pressure. I'm impressed.

Because I always have. :shrug:

but when i'm more broke, that full synthetic brand walmart carries, can't remember the name...like, Tech, Full syntec, or something like that....never valvoline, my wife and I have had bad run ins with valvoline, as well as some of her cousins...

With the price of oil rising so drastically I suspect it won't be long before that's the CHEAP option. I'm hoping, anyway! ;)