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Tbn sets your interval and also verifies it. 5k unterval unless you have fuel dilution or insolubles, you could pass on tbn. If you ever have a bad wear report, the next run always good to have tbn/tan levels.Hi Burla,
1. I'm not sure if I regret prepaid, it was $1300 for up to 80k miles, 5k tire rotations oil changes. Which also includes spark plugs and other misc items like air filters etc. So it's not a bad deal. I can still cancel it... But I do like my local SF Toyota dealership. At the beginning I assumed that dealership should use Oem oil but later I learned that it could be any cheap oil.
2. I'll look into this pump to get oil from the top.. Thx.
3. I'm done with Rams for now. It's a good feeling not having to worry about manifold bolts, hemi tick, or cam lifter failure. I do miss ram but Toyota seems to just have more reliable parts in their trucks.
4. Yes, based on me being heavily in Toyota community forums now, their engines are not picky about oil (so far), and any mid-level regular oil can take them up to 300k miles without any issues as long as you do regular 5k oil changes. This is my goal.
I follow this Toyota master mechanic guy a lot. Of course he only talks Toyota engines, and it's a whole different world from Ram, but I'll post a link to his popular video on engine tear down because of oil issues
TOYOTA OWNERS! Please NEVER Do THIS to Your Toyota!
A Toyota Master Diagnostic Technician and Toyota\Lexus speciality shop owner shares one singular thing that you should never do to your ToyotaToyota Owners P...youtu.be
5. Yes, if dealership uses Toyota Oem or mobil1 which is who makes Toyota US oil, I'd be perfectly satisfied. But I need to verify this somehow.
6. Thank you for providing spec sheet with information on Toyota oil.
I already had dealership do oil change at 1k miles. And will go soon to do 5k oil change.
Getting back to my original question - should I send sample to Blackstone right after the second oil change and compare values to the Toyota oil specifications that you posted above?
7. Do I also need to do TBN test?
Thx!
So verify this, but I believe toyota is like one of few manu's that use the most simplest spec for their oils, and now it should be gf-6. I could be wrong, if so someone educate me, but I think any gf-6 oil meets their spec. Of course any dexos is also gf-6, so I would at least make sure it was dexos as well. Especially with a turbo, you want low calcium oils and synthetic brother, moly is great to avoid lspi as well.
oem oil is SP, but I'm not sure even the manual even requires that. It should for sure, what does your manual say? Just use api sp or sn+? That is still the most basic spec, nearly every shelf oil synthetic will now be SP, then you get to other specs like rams ms-6395 or chevy's dexos, or mercedes whatever. I dont think toyota has any other spec. Maybe SP catches all specs pretty good so others arent really needed.
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