Shell Rotella T. The normal type NOT the synthetic. It's a diesel oil you can use with gasoline engines. It's got all the good stuff you need.
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Rotella T6 is very popular for turbo Subarus. It's 5w-40, which has some advantages. It's cheap at $20/gallon.
Pros: cheap, popular
Vehicle:
Subaru Outback
Rotella T6 Full Synthetic 5w-40... Burns a little.
Cons: Burns a little
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
G60 Carat said: Speaking of Rotella, Here's a personal observation of mine. My beater Saturn 1.9 has a lifter tick (not fixing it, don't care), so I just put in Rotella T, and it quiets it up a bunch! But last oil change I just used the 20w50 I had on the shelf for the VW, since it's in pieces anyways. Despite the heavier oil, the lifter tick is louder with 20w50 that it was with 15w40 Diesel oil.
Pros: quiets lifter noise
Cons: louder lifter tick
Speaking of Rotella, Here's a personal observation of mine. My beater Saturn 1.9 has a lifter tick (not fixing it, don't care), so I just put in Rotella T, and it quiets it up a bunch!
Pros: quiets lifter tick
ROTELLA T6 - Instantly i noticed a very nice purr from the motor. Its a heavy oil and with stabilizer (in this case thinner than the oil) It warmed up slower, meaning that it was absorbing more heat. No extra start up noise at all. The biggest gain from the Rotella was hot weather stability. It seemed to perform the best when you drove the car hard! Hot weather didnt affect the engines power anymore, and that made me really happy. Turbo lag was increased slightly, and the engine revved slightly slower, but remained perfectly stable. I loved this oil for protection, its really good for hot weather!
Pros: nice purr from motor, good hot weather stability
Cons: increased turbo lag, slower engine revs
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
I'm running T6 in my car as well It's been great the last few changes, best oil I've used for my 1.8T and I have over 190k on my engine.
Pros: great oil, best oil
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Mileage: 190000 km
Jumpers, disc golf bag, sleeping bag, old winter jacket w/ wool socks, OEM jack w/breaker bar, 4 qt Rotella T6.
Vehicle:
Subaru
Rotella T5, since the T6 is a bit too expensive for a car that leaks. Also a purolator pure one filter. I am up in Northwest NJ. I change it when the HLAs get noisy. It was 4500 miles for the last one.
Pros: none
Cons: HLAs get noisy
Mileage: 7242 km
I switched to Rotella T6 (5w-40 Full Synth) after running Penzoil, Chevron, Castrol, Mobil, regular non-high mileage 10w-30 dinos in that order over 4000 miles. Worst of this bunch was Mobil and Chevron, the HLA tick was unbearable, even right after the oil change.
Pros: engine cleaned up
Cons: HLA tick unbearable
Mileage: 4000 km
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