I'm curious if anyone here uses any specific type of motor oil in their Avalon. I drive a 2008 Touring Model about 4,000 miles a month. I've done some analysis and found that Quaker State Ultimate Durability, for the money, and for it's availability shows great results. Do most of the folks here use any particular oil or mostly whatever's on sale?
I've used Mobil One for years in all of my cars and Harleys; however, for the cars, I would think that any major brand of synthetic would do the job and do it well. (The bikes are a different story and one needs to be careful when buying oil for them....)
My 2-cents worth; I've been using synthetic since 1987 and Mobil 1 starting with 5W-30 and now 0W-30 in my '08 Avalon. I had a '98 Sienna that went 238,000 miles exclusively using synthetic. The thing that did it in was not the motor but the frame and suspension.
cheaper to do extended oil drain intervals with synthetic + a good filter. more upfront, but you save more on labor. if you do it yourself, you save on time.
otherwise with 5000 miles/8000km, sometimes i would be doing almost one change every 2 months with the regular stuff. its good enough, but i use synth. car starts like a dream in the cold too
Currently using Valvoline Synpower in the 99, Castrol Syntec in the 07. Castrol GTX in the Xterra, and GTX HM in the Quest. 5k OCI on all of the cars.
Amazingly Toyota filters are cheap compared to similar filters like WIX, Puralator and M1. $3.89 for both.
I use Castrol EDGE 5W-30 and the Toyota oil filter in my Avalon and Castrol syntec and any good oil filter in my old 4runner. The runner is an unkillable beast of a machine 250,000 and still runs like new doesn’t use a drop of oil. The oil doesn’t even start to darken at 5000 in the Avalon but I change it anyway...
I run Castrol Semi-synthetic. Never had to add a drop in 110000 miles and the engine runs like Day-1.
Not needing to add oil is not necessarily a good thing - it could mean that your oil is not viscious enough to get to the right places. A lot of higher performance cars tend to gobble premium grade synthetic... 1 quart every 2000 miles is considered quite normal by some engine manufacturers.
Not needing to add oil is not necessarily a good thing - it could mean that your oil is not viscious enough to get to the right places. A lot of higher performance cars tend to gobble premium grade synthetic... 1 quart every 2000 miles is considered quite normal by some engine manufacturers.
True, true... But I use it as a gauge to measure overall engine health. I've owned a few that I had to put lots of oil into and they were NOT high performance cars.
I thought I'd report that I've used Terry Dyson for some of my analysis and I'm a member of his web log. I've used Renewable Lubricants with good results, the shipping is the killer. I did a run with Castrol Edge Ti and I thought the oil was outstanding. Terry's comments about the Avalon. " I will say this your Toyota 3.5 grinds up oil with its valvetrain drive chains and cam phasers !!" I've had good results with QS Ultimate Durability and can usually find it at WalMart. So, I'm currently running that.
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