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02-14-2015, 05:49 PM | #1 |
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Need Oil change recommendation
Hello! my 3K service is coming up in a couple hundred miles and i was wondering what people could recommend me as far as the oil change! Leaning towards the Motul Gear 300 but i dont know if i need to buy anything extra or i can just get the oil and take it to the dealer to have them change it.
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02-14-2015, 06:19 PM | #2 |
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there is no 3k service. 6k for 2015's, 7,500 for years before.
Many people do the trans/diff early and find lots of debris on the magnetic drain plugs. I plan to do mine at 6k for my 2015. I am going to use motul also. Read your manual. |
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02-14-2015, 06:21 PM | #3 |
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Read this.
Also, although Motul is reportedly great oil, Toyota OEM oil is very hard to beat (read the endless threads on this forum). |
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02-17-2015, 07:58 AM | #4 |
First Motul 300 usually refers to Gear and Diffy fluid.
There are a few items: Motul Gear 300 75w90- good to put in around 3-5K miles in the Trans and Diffy Motul 8100 0w20- good engine oil and would suggest changing at 3K miles and then every 5K miles after that. Motul 300v- racing oil that I wouldn't suggest being used in a street car unless you track it and if you do track it and street drive it then change it every 2k-3k miles due to a lower detergent/additive package. -mike |
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02-17-2015, 01:04 PM | #5 |
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For a street driven car, standard Toyota or Subaru engine oil every 6-7.5K per owners manual.
Driveline oils should only really be done to sort out shifting issues, why fix what isn't broken. For a street car a 20K mile trans/diff oil change interval would be a nice aggressive preventative maintenance schedule. For a track car, do whatever makes you feel comfortable and change fluids often. |
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my service for 2015 is 7.5k?
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02-17-2015, 06:48 PM | #7 |
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Wouldn't be surprise as there's a member here that ran the oem subaru 0w-20 for 10k+ and blackstones oil analysis report came back great.
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Similar to the CYA move by Amsoil advising to stick with SoA's oil change interval recommendation on all turbocharged Subaru's after a knucklehead Legacy GT owner ran a 25k mile OCI as advised by his knucklehead Amsoil dealer. |
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So 8100 for a street car that sees the occasional track weekend or auto-x would be just fine? (This is assuming the use of an oil cooler.) |
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