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BR-ZED · 01-12-2021, 12:51 AM

I hate to bring this up, but regarding oil, there was some good conversation on the merits of 0w20 and 5w30 about 10 pages back. Unfortunately, "oil" is 3 characters so you can't search for it within a thread easily... so searching the other 270+ pages of this thread isn't super easy. Keeping in mind everyone has a different opinion on this, seems like a lot of folks are running 5w30 and some are running 0w20. I'm running synthetic Valvoline 0w20, which is what I ran every oil change for when the car was NA. I don't drive the car below 40 degrees F because of my tires... but was leaning towards changing to 5w30.

Not particularly excited about running Motul 5w30 300V due to cost and not being able to get it locally. What oil brand would people recommend that you can also get locally (e.g., AutoZone?) Would normal run-of-the-mill Valvoline (synthetic) 5w30 be fine?

Driving is mostly commute, some spirited driving, and 3-4 autocrosses a season assuming they let us race again with COVID.

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BR-ZED Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Drives: 2014 WRB BRZ Limited Location: MD Posts: 200 Thanks: 156 Thanked 61 Times in 37 Posts Mentioned: 3 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	I hate to bring this up, but regarding oil, there was some good conversation on the merits of 0w20 and 5w30 about 10 pages back. Unfortunately, "oil" is 3 characters so you can't search for it within a thread easily... so searching the other 270+ pages of this thread isn't super easy. Keeping in mind everyone has a different opinion on this, seems like a lot of folks are running 5w30 and some are running 0w20. I'm running synthetic Valvoline 0w20, which is what I ran every oil change for when the car was NA. I don't drive the car below 40 degrees F because of my tires... but was leaning towards changing to 5w30. Not particularly excited about running Motul 5w30 300V due to cost and not being able to get it locally. What oil brand would people recommend that you can also get locally (e.g., AutoZone?) Would normal run-of-the-mill Valvoline (synthetic) 5w30 be fine? Driving is mostly commute, some spirited driving, and 3-4 autocrosses a season assuming they let us race again with COVID. Last edited by BR-ZED; 01-12-2021 at 01:06 AM.