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Old 02-24-2006, 02:24 PM   #1 (permalink)
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oil weights?

what oil weights does everyone run?

i live in az so its gets Really hot what would be the best weight for me to run typically? right now its been on the cold side and my car hates to start up some times at night with 10w40 in it. someone told me to switch to the solid weights for the summer...
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Depends. In the supra I ran 15w50 but only synthetic. Dino oil in that variety might not be nearly as friendly.

10w40 is a common use oil in the mk3's.
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Old 02-27-2006, 07:52 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I run Amsoil 20w50 in both my supra's and my corolla...no issue and love the stuff.
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being summer now here in SoCal, i'm running Castrol Syntec 10w-40 on my '89 supra 97,000m.
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I run Amsoil 20w50 in both my supra's and my corolla...no issue and love the stuff.
Damn how can you run such a heavy wieght in Toronto. I live in Toronto and most I run is 10W 40
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I run 20w50 in my Mk3 Turbo
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GTX 20w50 in summer

10w40 in the spring/fall
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GTX 20w50 in summer

10w40 in the spring/fall

i went with gtx 20w50 seems good sofar
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