Dealer used Pennzoil for oil change

My Toyota dealer seems to have used Pennzoil, if I believe the reminder sticker, Pennzoil-branded.

Now, I had changed my oil before, Mobil 1, and also had oil changed before at same dealership, now under different owner.

Questions:

Should Pennzoil work equally well as M1 in my base 2012 Taco 2.7L?

What was prior owner, or T dealers in general typically use for oil changes? isn't there a factory deal with a large oil supplier in place?

 

It won’t make a difference at all. Wouldn’t even bother thinking about it anymore.

 

It will work fine and should have no issues

I do my own oil changes and use mobile 1 as a preference.

 

Man, I wish we had more of these oil change threads to keep things interesting...

 

You are fine. Nothing to worry about.

If it makes you feel better, I’ve run no less than 4 different brands of oil in my truck. And I’m not worried about it at all.

I’ve even run run different weight oils. (I don’t recommend it though)

 

To me, the most important thing is clean oil of the proper viscosity.

 

Let’s rehash the old stories about being a wax based oil and ruining engines. Check over at www.Bobistheoilguy.com and see about oil

 

They use pennzoil in my dealer aswell for the synthetic blend for 5w which they dont have a toyota brand. I have always used m1. Personally if someone put penzoil i wouldnt be able to sleep at night and would change it imediately. lol.

 

Go out and get your gun so you can shoot your car in the head. It will never be the same again and needs to be put down

 

switch to olive oil asap

 

If it's any consolation we've gotten a decent amount of spark plug change threads this week. Hopefully that'll hold you over till the oil change thread supply chain issues resolve.

 

Anyone old enough to remember the motor oils motor oil commercial. Whenever I read these threads I just hear that dude saying motor earls motor earl.

 

Why? I used Pennzoil Platinum exclusively in my 2nd gen in harsher conditions than most people on this forum would ever see and the oil analysis was always excellent.

 

Time to salvage your truck

 

think hes just memeing as many others here are.

 

I'm surprised they put oil back in it..

 

You all have fun with this, but still, nobody answered the question about dealers being bound, or not to a corporate oil brand deal. Is P likely a cheaper option to the dealer?

 

I know when I worked at Firestone they bought whatever brown label was cheapest. There weren't even different weights to put in, you got an oil change and you got whatever oil they had coming out of the spout.

If you're that upset change it yourself or take it to another dealership that will tell you what you want to hear.

 

Tragic.