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Brand is personal preference tbh.. ive seen good and bad reviews with royal purple but no evidence that its actually bad. My main 2 that i use are Delo 15W-40 Full Synthetic Heavy Duty Turbo Diesel oil and when thats sold out i run Mobil 1 Full Synthetic 15w-40. And i put a K&N oil filter every time, changing oil at 5K miles and ive had no issues using it as a daily and autocross car. Backroads racing on the weekends, roadtrips, some drifting. Got 271K miles on it and no motor issues.
Pros: no motor issues
Vehicle:
BMW
Mileage: 271000 km
Have done many oil changes on both my Tellurides, and used K&N every-time, better quality than OEM.
Pros: better quality than OEM
Vehicle:
Kia
I HIGHLY recommend 5k oil changes with a quality synthetic oil and factory oil filters. There may be others that are OK, but you are sure to have a good filter if you use a factory filter. Stay away from brands like Fram and anything from the quicky oil change places. The filters they use a not good.
Pros: quality, good filter
Cons: Fram not good
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Tiguan
My ‘11 CR-V AWD is sitting pretty at 285,000 miles and I’ve been using a combination of Valvoline MaxLife Engine Oil High Mileage Full Synthetic and K&N High Performance Oil Filter for the last 100k miles.
Vehicle:
Honda
Mileage: 285000 km
Valvoline High Mileage w/ K&N Gold filter, I've had no problems, and it runs smooth
Pros: no problems, runs smooth
I've been very surprised by how easy the Golf has been to work on so far, actually. Oil changes are super easy because the filter is a cartridge on the top of the engine, reservoirs are easy to reach and the battery doesn't require anything else to be removed to replace.
Pros: super easy oil changes
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Also, use the best filter you can afford and that means K&N (I hate that VW Mann 3D world junk).
Pros: best filter
Cons: VW Mann 3D world junk
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Tiguan
Well she ran out of free oil changes at VW and so I went online to research which oil is recommended to use in the VW and found that just to buy the filter and enough oil that meets the VW specification requirements would cost close to $80. I can buy the stuff to do an oil change in the Lexus for less than $30
Pros: cheaper oil change Lexus
Cons: expensive VW filter, oil
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
The K&N for my car was literally half as thick as the oe, and for that reason alone I swapped back. Yes it was the right one. Personally I’d rather just swap the filter than clean and re oil one that is probably doing a worse job
Cons: too thin, poor filtration
As good as their airfilters are... their oil filters are as shite. They leak and are downright dangerous.
Cons: leaks, dangerous
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