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Oil Starvation a Known Design Flaw?
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Originally Posted by nikitopo
I don't want to say definitely that your engine oil selection caused the issue, but for spiritual driving and driving sometimes like maniac the 0w20 oil was not the best choice. This was suggested by factory just to keep fuel consumption and emissions low. You should have used instead a 0w30 or a 5w30 oil. STI suggests even a 5w40 oil for mixed applications of street driving and circuit driving.
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Can confirm. My UOA shows twice as many dissolved solids on the Toyota 0W-20 than the Castrol 0W-30 Euro Formula I'm running now.
Last edited by Yoshoobaroo; 04-21-2019 at 12:56 PM.
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