High Mileage Oil

I was driving to work the other day and heard a commercial on the radio Talking about how you should start using High mileage oil after 75,000 miles. Now I am only sitting at 48k on my odometer at the moment and even though its a 2008 in my mind its hard not to continue to think of it as a new Car. So I was wondering for those of you that have many more miles on there second gen Tacomas when did you start using High mileage oil? Or did you?

 

80k miles here and no plans to switch to a high mileage oil. I run Mobil 1 5W-30 and will continue to do so until it dies or I trade it in, whichever comes first.

 

See that was My Thought. After the Dealer quit giving me oil Changes I switched to Royal Purple and was going to just stick with that. I just wanted to see what everybody else was doing.

 

or did I ?, I did not.

+210,000 miles and always used mobil 1 since day 1 (I am original owner)
and it has no sludge, perfect compression, no oil loss (except
normal pcv and rings) higher MPG than EPA says it should have....

so I expect to continue with regular flavor Mobil 1 until the thing
dies from something other than engine problems
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TL;DR What Pugga said ^^^^

 

My old man has 239k on the clock of his '98 4Runner with the 3.4L. Plain old dino oil since day one, runs like a champ, burns none. Before that he had (until '98!) an '83 Toyota pickup with the 4 cyl (2.2 or 2.4, I forget). Same deal, nothing but dino oil and he got 268k out of that before the body rusted out from under him.


High mileage oil == snake oil IMO.

 

Personally....I think all that 'High Mileage' synthetics .... is all advertising and marketing. It's the same oil....just packaged differently to target a different group of buyers.

 

When I think high mileage oil, I usually think 20W-50 and see it being used in an old, absolutely beat on engine. The thicker oil provides better protection to the worn parts and is sort of a last resort to hold off a rebuild or bringing the vehicle to the scrap yard.

 

79K miles on the X-Runner and 72K miles on my Impala... Both still run 5w30 Royal Purple and don't intend on changing it.

 

Most of the high-milage oils just have a different additive package then regular oils. Last I read the differences are mostly additional additives to keep the seals swelled and happy.

 

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My civic had worn rings and weepy main seals for all 90k miles I drove it. With valvoline max life it didn't lose nearly as much oil as their regular dino stuff and the oil pan was definitely cleaner. It usually worked out to about 1000 miles between 1 quart top offs instead of 500 miles on straight dino.

Then I switched to mobil 1, which made it weep like an old woman watching Gone With the Wind, but because it wouldn't burn it off so fast, it kept oil even longer than with the max life. A lot of times only one quart would get it to the next 3k mile oil change. This was good, especially since I had odd issues with the vtec not activating on the max life.

Rule of thumb, if it doesn't leak, use normal oil; if it's making a mess of your garage floor, maybe try the high mileage oil.

I suppose I'd use it if the valve seals were leaking too. Those cold startup skeeter-fogger-clouds aren't a bragging point.

 

When you say regular flavor do you mean non synthetic? I use full synthetic (i know i don't need to) but i like knowing I'm using high quality stuff.

 

I use Pennzoil Platinum in mine, I'm at 75,000. People say Pennzoil has was wax in it... Maybe in the 50's and 60's.. I'm sure they're smart enough not to put engine harming stuff in a full synthetic oil they advertise (especially after what happened to engines back in the day) to keep your pistons 40% cleaner than the competition. Even though the tops of the pistons do not see engine oil (if the rings are good) i don't see why having spotless pistons helps you. Unless the oil is getting into the combustion chamber and coating the top of my pistons where the most carbon buildup is how is it going to clean them? Oil companies are funny. I like the oil cause its newly engineered and i can go 6 or 7k instead of 3-5k on conventional.

 

Go Syntetic...Period...best choice.My car never run so smooth and fast .330.000 miles and counting.

 

I used high mileage oil in my old 97 only because it had high mileage, it was called what ever WalMart had on sale granted it only had 285,000 miles on it though. Oh yeah I used the orange can of doom too for the filter.

 

I switched from regular Mobil 1 synthetic to the Mobil 1 Synthetic high mileage because I read somewhere that it helps prevent leaks, and such. I have no idea the details on the oil, but I do know that my timing chain cover oil leak stopped leaking after I switched to high mileage oil. I don't know if that was coincidence or not, but it did happen. I've been using Mobil 1 high mileage ever since. I'm currently at 155k miles

 

I have less than 2500 miles on my 2014. When I change the oil at 5000 I will use 0W-30 after reading what Bob the oil guy has to say.

http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/motor-oil-101/

I suggest you read through the entirety of "oil 101". The people who contribute to that site are in the oil industry and many of them are oil scientists. Every man makes his own decisions based on the information he has. I am merely providing additional information.

 

high mileage is for regular engines to last longer like toyota engines....

 

My truck is at just over 200k km, I run mobil1 synthetic high mileage 5w 30. Don't know if it's actually gonna make a difference but what can it hurt?

 

Lol, high mileage oil has seal conditioners in the oil that keep gaskets and seals in older vehicles from cracking and drying out and shrinking.


all bottles of hm oils state this difference.

 

It was a joke homie...