This isnt an oil thread, LOL! Quick Oil question though.

[Davidloveshishemi]

I watched a youtube video, this person had a Ram and went from using 5w 20 to 5w 30. Is this a thing? Does it make any difference? I am curious what other Ram owners think and if anyone has done it. Before I forget, please skip the voided warranty thing, thats not why I am asking. Just generally curious if bumping it makes any difference and what others have experienced when doing it.

Thank You!

 

[crash68]

5w 20 to 5w 30. Is this a thing?

I wouldn't say it's a thing but...there is a several thousand page thread on all things oil with these trucks, a lot of which discusses using 5W30 ..just saying

 

[CanRebel]

I watched a youtube video, this person had a Ram and went from using 5w 20 to 5w 30. Is this a thing? Does it make any difference? I am curious what other Ram owners think and if anyone has done it. Before I forget, please skip the voided warranty thing, thats not why I am asking. Just generally curious if bumping it makes any difference and what others have experienced when doing it.

Thank You!

As @crash68 said not a really a thing. The person, who did the video say why they were doing it?
From my experience it's been other way around. I recall in my area anyway. 10W30 was 'normal' or 5W30. Now it's 5W20 which is what my Truck says.

I'm in sort of cold area. so very common for people to put 0W20 At or Near winter months.

 

[caulk04]

Ram recommends 5w20 but still lists 5w30 as an option.

I run 5w30 simply because it makes me feel a little better. That's really what all of the oil threads boil down to.

 

[Wild one]

I watched a youtube video, this person had a Ram and went from using 5w 20 to 5w 30. Is this a thing? Does it make any difference? I am curious what other Ram owners think and if anyone has done it. Before I forget, please skip the voided warranty thing, thats not why I am asking. Just generally curious if bumping it makes any difference and what others have experienced when doing it.

Thank You!

Read the note at the bottom.This is from the 700 page printed manual.

 

[BuschLatte420]

Read the note at the bottom.This is from the 700 page printed manual.

My 2022 takes the 0w20 per manual

 

[Bigskyroadglide]

I've been running 5w30 in all my rams or dodge products for many years and a few hundred thousand miles, all hemis, all routinely used. I have not seen any downside. 14 ram rt 76k, starting run 5w30 at 40k. 16 ram laramie 80k, 5w30 since 1st oil change, Durango rt, 30k, 5w30 since 1st oil change, 11 ram sport, gone but not forgotten, 150k, 5w30 since 80k.

Never replaced a cam yet. Could happen tomorrow, but not so far.
I don't baby and run the hemi hard, 6 to 8k oci. RP or SRT filters.

-40 to 110F degree outside temp

I'm probably not in your normal control group.

 

[DILLIGAF]

5W30 Red Line is the HEMI sauce !

 

[ramffml]

My 2022 takes the 0w20 per manual

Let's be frank, the manual is sometimes stupid. It also says the transmission fluid is "lifetime" when the actual manufacture (zf) says to change it every 90k miles or whatever the number is.

Engineering is always a compromise. Cost, quality, livability, there is no perfect answer for every choice. What we know is that thicker oil protects more, and thinner oil gives dubiously tiny incremental improvements in MPG. If you value every single penny of gas you put in, you'll lean towards 0w-20, but if you care about keeping your engine alive as long as possible then the better choice is 0/5w-30 or heck even a 40 weight runs just fine (I've done it for a summer).

 

[kdoublep]

I run PUP 5W30 all year. Live in FL Panhandle. It eliminated my 3 seconds of start up slap.

Now I just have an exhaust leak

 

[HEMIMANN]

Somewhere in threadland there is a test for wear that shows 5W-30 provides less wear than 5W-20. Read it long ago. At the sacrifice of tenths of a mile per gallon fuel economy due to higher viscous oil drag.

Use 5W-30 for most conditions. 0W-30 in cold (or HPL year round). 5W-40 if'n you tow heavy or hot.

Done.

 

[Wild one]

My 2022 takes the 0w20 per manual

Remind me not to buy any of your used vehicles then,

 

[DILLIGAF]

Remind me not to buy any of your used vehicles then,

 

[indept]

Read the note at the bottom.This is from the 700 page printed manual.

For my 2017 it has the same "you can use 5w30" note for the 3.6L only. Doesn't say that for the 5.7L.

 

[Wild one]

For my 2017 it has the same "you can use 5w30" note for the 3.6L only. Doesn't say that for the 5.7L.

Supposedly the gubberment nannies had something to do with them removing the 5.7's from the note.Apparently from what i've gathered up,the trucks won't consistently meet their advertised milege numbers using 5W-30,so they were forced to remove them from the 5W-30 reconmendation in early 2017

 

[HEMIMANN]

Supposedly the gubberment nannies had something to do with them removing the 5.7's from the note.Apparently from what i've gathered up,the trucks won't consistently meet their advertised milege numbers using 5W-30,so they were forced to remove them from the 5W-30 reconmendation in early 2017

And theeeeeeere it is, folks...another tenth of a mile per gallon or so, as the ONLY criteria not to recommend 5W-30.

If anyone that represents the company so much as whispers 5W-30 is better for reducing wear, the EPA will swoop down and fine the ever living $hit outta them if they ever find out.
Ask me how I know.

 

[indept]

And theeeeeeere it is, folks...another tenth of a mile per gallon or so, as the ONLY criteria not to recommend 5W-30.

If anyone that represents the company so much as whispers 5W-30 is better for reducing wear, the EPA will swoop down and fine the ever living $hit outta them if they ever find out.
Ask me how I know.

Ok.
How I know?

 

[HEMIMANN]

You know how!

 

[DILLIGAF]

For my 2017 it has the same "you can use 5w30" note for the 3.6L only. Doesn't say that for the 5.7L.

I also run the Redline 5w30 sauce in the wife's POS Penstar in her JK.

Im already getting lifter noise at 40xxx KM , the idiot that owned this before me ran cheap garbage oil as well. I know this because he went to the stealer**** to get work done like a ******* moron. He was actually proud to tell me this . lol... Must be the same type that believes in lifetime fluids... hahahahah

Another engine they couldn't build properly at the factory just like the HEMI. At least with the HEMI its easy to fix.

 

[danielmid]

I also run the Redline 5w30 sauce in the wife's POS Penstar in her JK.

Im already getting lifter noise at 40xxx KM , the idiot that owned this before me ran cheap garbage oil as well. I know this because he went to the stealer**** to get work done like a ******* moron. He was actually proud to tell me this . lol... Must be the same type that believes in lifetime fluids... hahahahah

Another engine they couldn't build properly at the factory just like the HEMI. At least with the HEMI its easy to fix.

Our Pentastar sounds clean on 0w-30 red line at just over 91k km, but I've had it on decent oil since we bought it and flushed out the dealer stuff. That's also getting switched to HPL next change.