cerich wrote:
mikey1273 wrote:
Rotella T6 is $19.50 at my local walmart, $24-$26 everyplace else per gallon so if you got it for $15 good for you. I wonder why they are clearencing it out? maybe it don't sell well in your area for them.
I use it myself. It is a fully diesel rated oil, not like that 0w40 stuff. 0w40 is more of an oil for european cars mostly gassers and not easy for me to find. Rotella T6 I can get anyplace but Target. Target's auto department is a waste of time for any thing other than detailing things unless you drive a gasser.
Yeah, the first 50K my CRD was covered with free oil changes so it got 0-40 mobile one at the dealer (once I pointed out that the manual says to use that, they used 15-40 the first couple changes and too much of it, I posted that on here back in 2005-2006. Once the free oil changes disappeared (and after the new and free oil pan on the second last oil change lol )I have been using Rotella 5-40 exclusively, if you look at the testing and ratings it is a much better choice than the mobile 1 0-40, especially with its ability to hold the ash...some of you may have noticed the oil in our crd gets a little dark....
Now the new mobile 5-40 euro spec oil seems to be a good choice as well but not worth it to me the $$ over the Rotella 5-40
I think it is good oil. I had mine checked at black stone labs and was told it was holding up very well to my 6,250 miles on it. they even said with my driving I could go up to 8000 miles on the Shell Rotella T6.
My oil gets dark too. used to get black as coal after a 100 miles or less now with the GDE tune I swear it doesn't get that black for a few thousand miles. some other guy said his oil never does go black since his tune and I didn't believe him, now I think there is a little truth in that tale. for what I see it might be streached some.
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