After doing about an hour of reading about oil on this forum it has complicated my thoughts. My 05 coupe has 124k miles on it. So my question is should I use dino oil, high mileage , or synthetic? I just bought the car so im not 100% if its burning oil but after 500 miles it seems like its not.

 

Amsoil 5w30 full synthetic

 

I just switched from regular oil to Mobil 1 extended full synthetic and have 79k miles (Mobil claims this oil is good for 15k miles). I put maybe 5k a year on this car so figured I would change it out once a year. But I was just checking out Walmart, they sell a 5 gallon jug of it for $27. (I paid $54 on Amazon, ships and sold by Amazon). I got ripped. Walmart is the place to buy your oil and is stocked in most of their stores I think so you can pick it up locally. Its cheap enough to switch it out every 6 months or 5k miles if you want to be way overly aggressive in your changes. Now if only they sold a quick release mat for under our cars so we don't have to take 15 bolts out everytime we want to do an oil change.

 

^ they do. The aluminum under trays have hatches you open to change the oil

 

Wow..thanks for pointing that out.. that's awesome! I see TollBoothWilley sells them. Thanks for pointing that out... It seems well worth the investment!

Chris

 

What you should have done was asked the previous owner what oil he's been using if possible. Mobil 1 is a decent synthetic but I'd suggest using a quality filter like WIX and change it every 4K miles. You need to keep this high mileage coupe happy....Gary

 

Any suggestion where to purchase a WIX filter?

 

if not needed immediately, then Amazon. I think O'reilys carrys WIX though not sure.

 

Use synthetic oil with a quailty filter like wix, purolator, and mobile 1. I think NAPA is the store that carries WIX filters.

 

kendall 5w40 Full syn w/ K&N oil filter- the W in the front number doesnt matter to those who live in a summer stable climate, the W is for winter viscosity (thickness) on how it reacts during cold weather. Higher the number the thicker it is.

 

As proved in the billion other oil threads everyone has a different opinion of what's best.