3.6 synthetic oil

BigBoy said:
NFRs2000NYC you present some great info. I have always been a mobile 1 user in my VW's without problems. I just got my 2014 and have a couple ?'s for you. When did you change to synthetic in your JK and what oil do you run specifically?
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Considering I don't let dealers touch my vehicles unless I absolutely must (ie expensive warranty repair) I swapped over to synthetic at the first oil change. On my 2012, it was 5000 miles or so. My 14 only has 450 miles on it, so I haven't done it yet, probably will right after winter is over. I follow my own advice...I run the cheapest high quality fully synthetic I can get, which 99.9% of the time is Mobil1. Walmart has the 5 quart jug for $24 plus 1 quart for $5, and costco has the 6 quart case for $33. If you can get a quality full synthetic for less than that, by all means, run that.
 
Walmart brand Supertech is a full synthetic oil and is rebranded Mobil1 or Pennzoil or Quaker State or some major brand. Just like Mopar or NAPA someone supplies the oil for them. I chance to synthetic oil in the first 500 miles or so. I like wasting money but it makes me feel good. For those that say that is too early I have done it since Mobil1 first hit the market in the 70's and never have had a problem. First vehicle was a new 78 Ford F150 with 300 6 and it probably is still running. My 2013 jku got it at about 250 miles and my 2014 jkur at 500 miles. I am going to jinx myself but I have never had an oil related engine problem.
 
jeffd said:
Walmart brand Supertech is a full synthetic oil and is rebranded Mobil1 or Pennzoil or Quaker State or some major brand. Just like Mopar or NAPA someone supplies the oil for them. I chance to synthetic oil in the first 500 miles or so. I like wasting money but it makes me feel good. For those that say that is too early I have done it since Mobil1 first hit the market in the 70's and never have had a problem. First vehicle was a new 78 Ford F150 with 300 6 and it probably is still running. My 2013 jku got it at about 250 miles and my 2014 jkur at 500 miles. I am going to jinx myself but I have never had an oil related engine problem.
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Some vehicles (Jeep isn't one of them) have additives put into the factory fill oil that should be left in there to assist with engine break in. Honda recommends you run their break in oil for 1500 miles before switching it out. If there are no additives from the factory, there is no harm in switching it out as fast as you want.
 
Will never run anything but Mobil 1 full synthetic in any of my vehicles !! When I was working for a Repair shop that was owned by Mobil they sent all the techs out for a seminar about there new full synthetic oil this was in 2004 and I was blown away by what the showed and told us!! Now they could have been just blowing smoke up my ass but I was hooked from that point on.


I don't always wheel , but when I do I keep it tight......... Stay dirty my friends.
 
NFRs2000NYC said:
Some vehicles (Jeep isn't one of them) have additives put into the factory fill oil that should be left in there to assist with engine break in. Honda recommends you run their break in oil for 1500 miles before switching it out. If there are no additives from the factory, there is no harm in switching it out as fast as you want.
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I have had a total of 9 new Honda vehicles (over 25 if you count motorcycles) since 1975 and was never an issue. In fact at one point I sent a sample of the original oil in to blackstone labs and it came back as average oil in all respects nothing that would aid in break-in.
 
mrmet1983 said:
Will never run anything but Mobil 1 full synthetic in any of my vehicles !! When I was working for a Repair shop that was owned by Mobil they sent all the techs out for a seminar about there new full synthetic oil this was in 2004 and I was blown away by what the showed and told us!! Now they could have been just blowing smoke up my ass but I was hooked from that point on.


I don't always wheel , but when I do I keep it tight......... Stay dirty my friends.
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My buddy went to work for Mobil1 early on and he said they have test vehicles that never get the oil changed and when he left (a millionaire because part of his pay was in mobil stock) about 10 years ago they were still running strong. He to this day has 2 50 Gallon drums of early mobil1 that he still uses in his vehicles.
 
I drive a 1999 dodge cargo van for work I bought it brand new in 99 at 3000 mi I put mobile1 in it, it's 5.2 v8 makes it haul ass along with all the lumber & tools I carry in it.. It now has 170,000 mi on it, meet me at the stoplight & I'll show ya how well it still runs :D
 
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