hey guys. i wasnt sure if any of u guys are using sytheti coil(mobil 1) in our cars..im sure we can put it in..im just not to sure.let me know anyone...car is gonna run a lot nice probably.

 

yes, loads of members here use mobil 1, me included, or some other type of synthetic oil. you most likely won't feel the car run any better, unless it was running crappy due to lack of oil changes before.

when i did my first oil change, i asked my father "this will help it run better, right?" and he said "Why, was it not running good before"?

 

true..do u know where i cud get that oil cap that the 2.0's have? cuz our oil cap without that pos plastic cover on it looks like crap..lol

 

synthetic oil is good because

1. you dont have to change the oil for at least 5000 miles

2. it doesnt leave building up that normal oil would leave after awhile

gotta take care of such a sexy car

 

im not sure what the dealer puts in my 2.4 its full syntetic is all i know. but its probly not mobil 1. i was going to change my own i cant find the filter. and mobil 1 oil is 7 bucks a quart and i need 5 quarts.

ryan.

 

5 quarts...wahh try 6.5 :P

Yeah man, you can switch over to syn w/o an issue. But you can never ever switch back to regular.

 

if you have the plastic engine cover off, take out the extender. the extender is not needed, it's only to make the oil cap fit over the plastic cover. take out the oil cap, and twist and pull hard. when i took mine out, it felt like it was going to break. but it should pop right out. then jsut put the oil cap back onto the engine. looks a million times better.

 

cool man i thought that came off i didnt know didnt want to break it. i wanted to take that off always lol.

aah well my car receipt said 5 quarts of oil added last oil change last week.

ryan.

 

yeah well i do all my oil changes now that i have jackstands n ****. so yeah next oil change is gonna be mobil 1 times...so much better for the car

 

royal purple- i dont want to have to repeat myself... ROYAL PURPLE, it looks like this \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

 

ive used that crap on my truck its to thin. and its crap breaks down to fast.

its cheap thats what you pay for i guess.


ryan. i use amsoil in my truck from my grandpas its very good oil. synthetic

 

royal purple is cheap? explain how it is a group 5 motor oil and Mobil 1 is only a group 4? i dont know the last time you checked the viscosity buuuuut RP isnt so thin...

 

well i used it in my truck and it sucked

ryan. i wont use it in my car.

 

of course you can do what u want, dont take my word on it... u can deffinately feel a difference between the two though, but of course y would ur friends want you to have something better than what they got?!?

here ya go, i'm not the only one who loves RP

here ya go, i'm not the only one who loves RP

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums//showthread.php?t=65189

 

What could possibly hurt by switching back to regular? Heck you can even mix the two; there won't be any problems. In fact the manual says its OK to add regular oil to synthetic if you need to top it off between oil changes.

 

something about the motor picking up the characteristics of you oil, maybe it does something to the metals?

 

Its no problem at all to switch back and forth with synthetic and conventional oil......has no ill effects on the engine at all.....after all, there is such thing as semi-synthetic that is a mixture of both.....visit quakerstates website and they have a write up on "oil myths"....its quite interesting......Later

 

it's an old myth, and is not true.

 

just changed mine today, used the mobil 1 full synthetic 5 quart container. easist oil change ever

 

I use dat purple drank *****! lol FTW

 

any form of a good synthetic oil is good to go ..u won't feel the diff half the time but your engine sure will

 

Though this is my first post here, my family and I have been around racing for a long time. My dad went through an oil and lube class sponsored by Volvo. They had run every engine oil to the breaking point and the only oil they recommened was Mobil 1 Synthetic. There was noone even close to second place. My dad was a diesel mechanic and could tell by sight which engines ran synthetic because there was no wear on the engine parts even at 200-300,000 miles.

My father in law is the same way. After having many wear problems on the rod bearings on his 57 Chevy, he switched to synthetic and has had much better luck.

I just returned from a 1309 mile trip each way. I had regular oil in on the way to and then switched to synthetic on the way back. The trip there in my wifes Grand Prix I got 28.4mpg only stopping for gas. On the way back even having road construction 4 times and 4 additional stops, the gas milage was 29.4.

We have never dynoed an engine to see the difference, because after we started running sythetic, we have never felt the need to go back.