Getting ready to do the first oil change on my truck since I bought it, lmm with 140,000. Has anyone used royal purple 15-40 as there go to oil? Change intervals are going to be 5,000 miles, dont tow very much at all but if I do it's light. Also will be using acdelco filter. Just want to get some opinions! Thanks!
It'd be a big waste of money. For a 5000 mile OCI I would just run regular Rotella 15w-40, your engine won't care if it's synthetic or not. These engines really don't care for normal change intervals, they live just as long on regular 15w-40 at $13/gal as they do on the high dollar synthetics at $30+/gal. Only time synthetics help is when your going for an extended drain interval and using oil samples to determine how long to run it, I have seen guys go 30-40,000 miles between changes and pulling a sample every 3-5000 miles and changing the filter every 10k.
Synthetics do help if it's really cold and you run a 5w-40 though.
I never understood the oil sampling. It's gonna cost ~$20 per sample. I run mobil 1 5w-40 & mobil 1 m-303 filter. I can change my oil for ~$75, they are gonna have way more cost in sampling the oil than just changing it. Hopefully they are smart enough to change the oil filter at least every 10k or so (unless they have the bypass setup) and do a full front end grease job every 5k.
Rotella is gonna be definitely more accessible for me so I think I'll be going with it! I definitely agree that it wouldn't be worth the extra $ for 5000 OCI, Only reason I would even think of doing the oil samples would be for water in oil, other than that if it ain't got metal in it than no worries lol! Thanks for the input!
I've been running Royal purple HPS 10-40 for the last 100k miles and a royal purple filter. I called royal purple and talked with them about my driving, performance upgrades, etc.... And this was recommended
Of course it's what they recommend, they are a business who's goal is to make money by selling their products. Truth is, our engines really don't care if it's $10/gal or $60/gal. The engine won't last any longer or run any better with an expensive synthetic than it will on plain old Rotella 15w-40 that you got on clearance at the local Walmart.
Other than the occasional sample I see that had a damaged air filter or bad injectors, the lab results are considered boring. These engines just plain old go and have very very good wear numbers on any properly certified oil.
I run mine 10,000 between changes. I use mobil 1 TD and a mobil M1-303 filter. It works out to about once a year. With the DPF and EGR gone I could probably go longer, but for the cost of the oil and filter vs getting a sample tested, its easier for me to just change it...
But I definetely wouldn't run non-syn oil for 10,000 miles....
FYI you could run delvac 15w-40 and change it every 5k for dang near same price as TD
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