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Old Mar 15, 2010 | 08:09 PM
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Over 75% of you all will not keep this car for many years. So I'm confused as to why you all worry so much over which oil to use.
This isn't me bashing. I'm sincerly curious as to why most care so much when typically people don't keep a car past 80k miles on the odometer. They typically sell and get something newer.
I totally agree with you. However I would be an exception since I plan on keeping my car forever.
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 06:05 AM
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Originally Posted by singh
I totally agree with you. However I would be an exception since I plan on keeping my car forever.
You and I both.
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 01:50 PM
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Royal Purple 5w-30 (mobile 1 oil filter) :-)
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Old Mar 21, 2010 | 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by J. Dub
Over 75% of you all will not keep this car for many years. So I'm confused as to why you all worry so much over which oil to use.
This isn't me bashing. I'm sincerly curious as to why most care so much when typically people don't keep a car past 80k miles on the odometer. They typically sell and get something newer.

Couldnt be anymore right. heck my father changes for a new car every 4-5 years and he doesnt give a S**T what he drives
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Old Mar 23, 2010 | 04:05 PM
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thats whats up Bigmo, Royal Purple 5w-30, Mobil 1 filter. Plus you might be lucky enough to get asked by a clerk, this oil is for high performance cars, what are you putting it in? They love to hear its going into a 350z haha..
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Old Mar 23, 2010 | 05:26 PM
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is castrol edge just a newer version of castrol sytntec??
any major differences?
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Old Mar 23, 2010 | 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Mamounas123
Couldnt be anymore right. heck my father changes for a new car every 4-5 years and he doesnt give a S**T what he drives
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Old Mar 23, 2010 | 06:39 PM
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Service Pro 5W-30 Synthetic Blend with a Purolator/Group 7 Oil Filter

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Old Apr 1, 2010 | 10:39 AM
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To those of you running the "German Castrol" 0w30 oil, what oil pressure do you get at idle?

Originally Posted by https://my350z.com/forum/vq35hr/481143-whats-your-oil-pressure.html
I've only had my car for a few months and never looked too much at the oil pressure gauge. All I noticed before was that whenever I got on the throttle at all, it pretty much jumped all the way to 120 or whatever heh.

Anyways the previous owner said he always used Mobil 1 5w30. When I changed my oil for the first time I decided to try out the "German Castrol" 0w30.

All seems well but I noticed that when I'm idling (once the car is warm), my oil pressure gauge is reading about 5-10 PSI.. I mean the needle is just barely past the 0 mark. When I am cruising on the hwy it reads about 45ish. Does this sound normal or is that too low? I checked my oil and from what I can tell there is the right amount in the engine still...

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Old Apr 1, 2010 | 12:30 PM
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Royal Purple 5w-30 - K&N Oil filter

3,000 miles or 3 months... like clockwork
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Old Apr 1, 2010 | 02:14 PM
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Dealership oil
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Old Apr 1, 2010 | 06:19 PM
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I'm currently running German Castro Syn 0w-30 with Mobil 1 filter.
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Old Apr 1, 2010 | 09:36 PM
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I bought a used 07 2 weeks ago. The car is due for an oil change in less than 1000 miles, I think the seller used Castrol, so should I continue using 5W-30 Fully Synthetic Castrol? Even if he was using regular, Running synthetic from now on should be fine, the car is already broken in at 21500 miles.
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Old Apr 2, 2010 | 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by JDM555
I bought a used 07 2 weeks ago. The car is due for an oil change in less than 1000 miles, I think the seller used Castrol, so should I continue using 5W-30 Fully Synthetic Castrol? Even if he was using regular, Running synthetic from now on should be fine, the car is already broken in at 21500 miles.
switching from a dino to syn is fully ok.
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Old Apr 2, 2010 | 09:55 AM
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Castrol syntec
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Old Apr 4, 2010 | 09:24 PM
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Royal purple 5w30 and a mobile one filter. every time just got a case for $85 bucks i saved like 15 bucks lol also just ordered extra crush washers and a magnetic drain bolt i chage the oil every 2,500-3,000 miles depending on the time of year and how ive been driving her so by the end of the year i will be up to $1,000 in oil chnges holy **** loli need a new daily
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Old Apr 5, 2010 | 03:30 AM
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I was running royal purple 5w 30 in my car till I had it sent off to injected to have the motor built and when they got it and pulled the cams out they ended up having to polish the cams they were scuffed up badly and motor only had 6000 miles on it and I only put synthetic in it when motor hit about 4000 miles but I also changed my oil at 1500 miles using just regular mobile 5w 30...and my friend has a supra and royal purple did the exact same thing to his cams...since the motor has been rebuiltnand turbod I've been running nuthin but regular 10w40 mobil in the car and pulled valve covers of just to check and cams are perfect after about 4500 miles on new motor...
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Old Apr 6, 2010 | 07:28 PM
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Castrol full syn 5w30 with a pure1 filter...

my last change however, I used my dads oil so its 5w20 castrol syn... i noticed a bit at start-up but nothing after it gets to temp and I drive it. 1500miles till change.
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Old Apr 6, 2010 | 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by drdave2387
I was running royal purple 5w 30 in my car till I had it sent off to injected to have the motor built and when they got it and pulled the cams out they ended up having to polish the cams they were scuffed up badly and motor only had 6000 miles on it and I only put synthetic in it when motor hit about 4000 miles but I also changed my oil at 1500 miles using just regular mobile 5w 30...and my friend has a supra and royal purple did the exact same thing to his cams...since the motor has been rebuiltnand turbod I've been running nuthin but regular 10w40 mobil in the car and pulled valve covers of just to check and cams are perfect after about 4500 miles on new motor...
Now this is the type of info we need! Good stuff! You have saved my car. Thank you.
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Old Apr 7, 2010 | 01:03 PM
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Ive been using castrol edge 10w30 love it!
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