What grade oil to use?
03-01-2005, 07:54 PM
#1
CMOC Rookie
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Brandon Manitoba,Canada
Posts: 112
What grade oil to use?
Here in southern Manitoba the temp reaches 30+ in the summer quite often, do you think the 5w30 recommend by ford is good enough or should i switch to a different grade? What brands and/or grades do you other members use?
03-01-2005, 08:04 PM
#2
I think it is good enough, they changed the new ones to 5w20 to conserve fuel. Anyway, most of the cars are sold in the states. If you look at the temp overall in the states it is higher than what Manitoba or anywhere in Canada gets to.
If you drive it normally and race it the odd weekend that grade of oil will be fine for use. Just make sure you cahnge it regularly. That is a must.
Peace.
If you drive it normally and race it the odd weekend that grade of oil will be fine for use. Just make sure you cahnge it regularly. That is a must.
Peace.
03-02-2005, 12:42 PM
#3
Border Patrol
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Burlington ON
Posts: 651
Originally Posted by 250rtone
Here in southern Manitoba the temp reaches 30+ in the summer quite often, do you think the 5w30 recommend by ford is good enough or should i switch to a different grade? What brands and/or grades do you other members use?
5W30 is fine
It gets to be above 30 here... And with the smog... sometimes high 30's and I've never had a problem with oil consumption.
03-03-2005, 07:42 AM
#6
i use 10w30 all year round. the cheapest stuff i can find actually and change it every 3000km. i'm over 300,000km on my car now and i live in the most southern part of canada...doing this has worked well for me.
03-03-2005, 04:19 PM
#10
Originally Posted by paul
Hey stock865.0 I thought Windsor was the most southerly city in Canada :laughhard . Not that I am any kind of expert but I use Mobil 1 or Royal Purple 5-30 and it is dumped every 1000 kms. 
