First time changing oil

Whats up guys? its about that time for me to learn how to change my oil. Ive seen how to do it but i really wanted to know what brand of oil would you guys reccomend and oil filter?

 

do you wanna run synthetic or regular?

 

Well, for starters for the oil filter pick up a toyota OEM one. For oil I think the run mobil 1 IIRC

 

whats the difference?

 

thank you man! appericate it

 

Synthetic oil is just a "higher" quality oil that is thinner than regular oil. If you use regular oil your gonna want to change it after 3000 miles or 3 months, but with synthetic you can go around 6000 miles or use it longer than 3 months. I normally change mine after like 5k though

 

sounds like synthetic is what im going to start buying, thank you!

 

For man. Mobil 1 is good oil brand, I also like Castrol GTX synthetic blend. IMO the brand of oil doesn't really matter as long it's not cheap brands like gas station oil. I've ran a lot of different types including royal purple and they all seems the same to me. Same with the oil filters I've ran the expensive K&N filters to the cheap Fram filters and to me it doesn't really make a difference. The OEM should work just fine. A word of advice if your gonna buy individual quarts make sure they are all the same weight. I know it sounds dumb but I've made the mistake of buying two different weights before . If you wanna read a comparison of oil filters check out:
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/technical-chat/123608-toyota-oil-filter-made-thailand-vs-competition.html