Mobil 1 for baby

Well, it's been a year and 2 months now that I've had the '06 Camry.
This week I'll be seeing the dealer for my second oil change. Reading
Ray O's helpful posts has convinced me to *only* let the dealer do
maintenance.
The car has about 5,000 miles on it. For the first oil change, I used
conventional dino, but unless anyone has any objections, I'm going to
permanently switch over to either Mobil 1 Synthetic or Mobil 1 Extended
Performance.

Sam's Club sells 6 one-quart bottles of Mobil 1 Synthetic
for $29--in case you want to get some yourselves.


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On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:13:01 -0500, Built_Well
<Built_Well_Toyota@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Well, it's been a year and 2 months now that I've had the '06 Camry.
>This week I'll be seeing the dealer for my second oil change. Reading
>Ray O's helpful posts has convinced me to *only* let the dealer do
>maintenance.
>The car has about 5,000 miles on it. For the first oil change, I used
>conventional dino, but unless anyone has any objections, I'm going to
>permanently switch over to either Mobil 1 Synthetic or Mobil 1 Extended
>Performance.
>
> Sam's Club sells 6 one-quart bottles of Mobil 1 Synthetic
>for $29--in case you want to get some yourselves.[/color]


Based upon the used oil analyses to date, I would use Pennzoil
Platinum over Mobil 1.

See [url]www.bobistheoilguy.com[/url] for Toyota/Lexus V6 used oil analysis
reports.

Oh, the 5 quart container at Wally World is $19.97.

YMMV.

"Built_Well" <Built_Well_Toyota@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:45f46eb4$0$16280$88260bb3@free.teranews.com...[color=blue]
>
> Well, it's been a year and 2 months now that I've had the '06 Camry.
> This week I'll be seeing the dealer for my second oil change. Reading
> Ray O's helpful posts has convinced me to *only* let the dealer do
> maintenance.
> The car has about 5,000 miles on it. For the first oil change, I used
> conventional dino, but unless anyone has any objections, I'm going to
> permanently switch over to either Mobil 1 Synthetic or Mobil 1 Extended
> Performance.
>
> Sam's Club sells 6 one-quart bottles of Mobil 1 Synthetic
> for $29--in case you want to get some yourselves.
>[/color]

Only 5,000 miles in 14 months? If the car takes many very short trips where
the engine never fully warms up, synthetic may prolong the life of the
engine, although IMO and in the opinion of the folks who designed the car,
conventional oil with and API Performance Level of SM should be sufficient.

While synthetic oil generally outperforms conventional oil, I have seen
plenty of vehicles with well over 300,000 miles that were maintained with
conventional oil. I saw a customer's Supra that had close to 700,000 miles
on the original engine, with oil changes every 3,000 miles using
conventional oil.
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Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)

[email]cnewton--removethis@akamail.net[/email] wrote:
"Oh, the 5 quart container at Wally World is $19.97."
====

I guess the price you're quoting must be for Pennzoil Platinum
instead of
Mobil 1, because Sam's Club prices are even cheaper than Walmart. For
example,
you can buy 6 pounds of Protein Powder at Sam's Club for about 30
percent less
than Walmart. And Walmart is already unbelievably cheap when compared
to, say, GNC (General Nutrition Center).

"Built_Well" <Built_Well_Toyota@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1173712717.291541.45830@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> [email]cnewton--removethis@akamail.net[/email] wrote:
> "Oh, the 5 quart container at Wally World is $19.97."
> ====
>
> I guess the price you're quoting must be for Pennzoil Platinum
> instead of
> Mobil 1, because Sam's Club prices are even cheaper than Walmart. For
> example,
> you can buy 6 pounds of Protein Powder at Sam's Club for about 30
> percent less
> than Walmart. And Walmart is already unbelievably cheap when compared
> to, say, GNC (General Nutrition Center).[/color]

I didn't know GNC sells motor oil. I am sure they have omega-3 oils, but
they are suitable for engines.

I wouldn't recommend protien powder, either, for an engine.

In fact, I would not recommend anything at GNC for human consumption,
either. I would recommend a healthy, balanced diet instead.

Jeff

Ray O wrote:[color=blue]
> If the car takes many very short trips...[/color]
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Ray O, thank you very much for the information. A 700,000 mile
original-engine Supra! Amazing.

I was a little hesitant to switch to synthetic, but decided
I probably would after the Camry made a short 1-second-long funny
noise at startup a couple times during the absolute cold of Winter.
It almost sounded like grinding. The car had not been started for
a whole week on both occasions. Too many feet of snow on the ground
to be driving, so I just walked the 3 blocks to work for that week.

Does anyone know if it's bad not to start your car for a whole
week during the extreme cold of winter? We had a couple 15- to
20-inch overnight snow falls this past season, with drifts that were
a few feet high.

I'm wondering if it would have been better for me to just let the
car idle for a few minutes each day instead of letting it sit untouched
for a whole week? I thought I was doing something good leaving it undisturbed
during the frigid temperatures, but now I'm not so sure after hearing
the 1-second-long grinding at startup those couple times.


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