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Originally Posted by superskaterxes
M1 is the bose of speakers. its just a name that everyone knows. i do UOA reports at every change and i im getting twice the life and quality out of my rotella 5w-40 then i ever did with M1.
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Lemme guess? You use Blackstone
Rotella is a diesel truck grade oil for the new low sulfer engines. It's designed to go 10,000-20,000 between changes. (obviously more capacitiy, but that's a truck service). It's good stuff, but it's intent is for trucks. Does that imply it's bad for cars? No. But I will still go buy what they are designed for.
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Originally Posted by Buster
Where do you get Rotella at? Ive been looking and never see it anywhere.
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WalMart, Truck Stop, Truck anything really.
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Originally Posted by arkadyzv
Ditto, great thread on the legacygt.com about M1 and Rotella.
gallon which is a damn good price compared to Mobile 1 which has gone up and up recently. Make sure you get the new bottle, there's a picture of it in
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Mobil 1 is always like 20-25 for 5 quarts at WalMart...at least over the past 5-6 years that I can remember. I've only ever used it in my turbo cars.
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Originally Posted by dragonfly2k3
On the oil analysis - This is a common practice in aviation and i once knew a guy who forget to get a sample for the owner at change, his DOM told him to come up wth one, so he got one out of the waste oil drum. Now this is a drum that is full of waste oil of all kinds, and even some non-oil products. The analysis came back pretty damn good actually, so who knows.
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You beat me too it. Anyone that's an Army Mechanic (I believe the same aapplies to all services) should know about the AOAP. We knew some other shops that STRICTLY followed that, and did few to no oil changes throughout the year, and also had many engine failures. We on the other hand, changed the oil every 1000 miles...heck the stuff we used was black water to start, and was just darker water when it came out...wasn't worth the risk in our eyes. Screw service schedules, we wanted to keep our stuff up.
The key to keeping a motor happy (or at least an abused one) is regular maintanance and consistant oil changes (in terms of brand/type/regularity). 9/10 times, people pick a brand that they 'like' (namely due to advertising I think), stick with it, claim it's the best, use it forever, and never have any problems...
...don't get me wrong, I understand some oils are 'better' than others, and all that jazz, but for the majority of those on this forum, they own street cars or daily drivers...all of which have the same oil needs as their mom's Camry's lol.