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07-05-2010, 9:02 PM AmericancClassic Joined on 08-25-2009 Naples, FL Posts 297 What oil do you use in your car? Basically, Im taking part in a boycott of BP. That includes Castrol which is my typical go to oil. I dont really know what other oil to use. So consider this can of worms open. 1981 Honda gl500    Report

07-05-2010, 9:25 PM Blindstitch Joined on 03-14-2009 Greenfield Wisconsin Posts 9,863 Re: What oil do you use in your car? Good question. My truck hates Penzoil or at least penzoil oil filters. For some reason I get extremely low oil pressure from my idiot gauge.  But that could also be disputed as bad wiring since when I replace the last 2 feet of wire oil pressure went good but at that time I was using Quakerstate. 1979 CX500 Supertanker ATGATT makes riding a bike like a sled easier. Quick Reference    Report

07-06-2010, 2:48 AM Diesel08 Joined on 10-17-2009 Columbus, OH Posts 244 Re: What oil do you use in your car? I just take mine to Jiffy Lube... I know, lazy right? I just find it much easier to have them keep track of when my diff/atf/radiator/ or transfer case needs serviced. I'm pretty sure they use Penzoil. 1980 CX500 Custom    Report

07-06-2010, 5:53 AM chicagorandy Joined on 05-28-2007 Chicago, IL Posts 414 Re: What oil do you use in your car? I use whatever is on sale or least expensive at the quicky lube joints. Castrol works great in my Ural and I plan no boycotts. I want BP to remain HUGELY profitable or they will just file bancruptcy against all the oil spill claims and WE end up the losers. Besides, local boycotts only hurt the local US merchants trying to make a buck selling gasoline and Slurpies. 2003 Ural Tourist - 80,245kms to date 1982 Honda GL500 Interstate 12,800 miles since 05/30/07 "Down the highway of life at smiles per hour, with special attention to ignorant and blind cagers"    Report

07-06-2010, 6:38 AM roundman72 Joined on 03-24-2009 Laporte Indiana Posts 393 Re: What oil do you use in your car? mobil 1 in truck and aztek cheap wal-mart high milage oil in the jeep but i do agree. even though i never regularly visit BP gas stations if they were to become bankrupt we the american people will end up paying for the spill.  kinda a catch 22, i know your mad at them...but maybe you should wait a few till the clean up gets done. 82 gl500I 82 xs650 70 cl450 (restoring) 74 cl450 (non runner) 00 Moto Guzzi Jackal (ended up selling)    Report

07-06-2010, 7:06 AM dhoenisch Joined on 03-29-2009 Chicagoland, IL Posts 159 Re: What oil do you use in your car? For my truck, I'll throw in what ever oil is cheapest since she'll pretty much run the same on anything I give her.  I've always been a huge fan of Valvoline oil and Fram filters, so that's what the car gets.  The bike gets the Shell Rotella you all always suggest. Dan 1982 Honda GL500i SilverWing Interstate - Stripped Naked A.K.A. The Thread Killer    Report

07-06-2010, 7:21 AM DougD Joined on 05-29-2009 Dundas Ontario Age 43 Posts 201 Re: What oil do you use in your car? Castrol GTX / Fram or Quaker State / Quaker State Yeah, it's probably not the best out there but pretty much any new oil/filter is way better than leaving the old stuff in! 80 CX500 Deluxe - Sold 86 Interceptor 500 93 Kawi Concours 81 GL500 - The Silver Thing, gone but not forgotten    Report

07-06-2010, 8:59 AM bri-guy-ga Joined on 06-04-2008 Powder Springs, GA Posts 702 Re: What oil do you use in your car? Pennzoil or Castrol full synthetic and Wix filters. 1982 GL500i (currently being rebuilt from ground up) NO! Try not. Do or do not do. There is no try - Yoda    Report

07-06-2010, 5:10 PM Pop Joined on 10-03-2008 Conshohocken, Pa Posts 241 Re: What oil do you use in your car? I use NAPA oil which is Vavoline.  Many years ago I was working on a rented lift platform at a Sunoco refinery in the section where they were producing quart containers of oil.  On the same line they made Sunoco, Gulf and Harley Davidson oil. Same oil just different containers. I've seen the same tanker company delivering to several different brand gas stations including BP.  Who's to say it's not the same gas? I live by one rule: If it ain't broke don't fix it! And if you can't fix it leave it the hell alone! "I am what I am and that's all that I am" Popeye 82 CX500C (Sold) 82 Yamaha XV920 Virago (Wrecked)    Report

07-06-2010, 5:58 PM Northland Joined on 03-26-2010 N.W WISCONSIN USA Posts 237 Re: What oil do you use in your car? Here's a few worms in the can............ Red bottle wal mart high mileage in the water cooled beaters. Castrol GTX dino oil in the air cooled VW's. We did tests on oil temp in the old AC VW's and found synthetic oil didnt cool as well as the old school dino oils. The non synthetic "Soaked" up the cylinder wall heat and got rid of it through the engine cooling fins better than the slippery sythetics did !!!!!! Not a issue with a watercooler with a good system. 82 SILVERWING INTERSTATE 98 Honda F3 87 Yamaha TZR250 85 Yamaha XT350 Down the long and winding road.........on a route less traveled.......ridden by only a few.    Report

07-10-2010, 10:42 AM ted Joined on 08-09-2009 Charlestown, RI Posts 29 Re: What oil do you use in your car? A friend of mine said that oil from Pennsylvania was paraffin based and others were tar based. I don't know but it makes sense. Best oils seem to come from Pennsylvania.    Report

07-10-2010, 7:23 PM instructorpilot Joined on 12-15-2007 Orlando FL Posts 591 Re: What oil do you use in your car? Motor Oil. A whole bunch of old junk    Report

07-10-2010, 8:02 PM Cobram Joined on 06-23-2007 Boston, MA Posts 1,547 Re: What oil do you use in your car?  instructorpilot wrote: Motor Oil. Somebody give that man a ceegar, best and only correct answer to the question posed. 1978 CX500 - I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got here, or how I'm going to get out. Four wheels move the body; Two wheels move the Soul.    Report

07-11-2010, 8:32 PM Pop Joined on 10-03-2008 Conshohocken, Pa Posts 241 Re: What oil do you use in your car? Back in the early 1960s when I got my first car my Dad told me there were only two types of motor oil. Pennsylvania Oil and Texas Oil.  Which ever one you started using in your car you had to stay with.  I don't know if that is true anymore. My Dad used Quaker State and swore by it. It never dawned on me to ask him how he knew what oil the car already had in it.  I live by one rule: If it ain't broke don't fix it! And if you can't fix it leave it the hell alone! "I am what I am and that's all that I am" Popeye 82 CX500C (Sold) 82 Yamaha XV920 Virago (Wrecked)    Report

07-12-2010, 4:45 AM TonyG Joined on 04-05-2006 Central Pa Posts 745 Re: What oil do you use in your car? I was using motocraft semi-synthetic. Switched to 76 semi-sythetic and oil consumption dropped in half. Now using Castrol High Mileage. I like it. Several years ago, I had bought an older used car that had relativel low mileage on it. Turs out that an elderly couple used it only for local trips to groceries or church or restaurant. The engine was using exsessive oil and had low oild pressure. Turns out that the oil pickup screen was clogged almost shut with hardened wax. The mechanic said that it wss a result of parafin based oil with the engine likely never got hot enough for long enough to burn off the moisture in the oil.    Report

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