Oil recommendation?

Question

what oil type do u guys reccomend for a 2003 mitsubishi eclipse gt with 73,000 miles??? im planning on buying a k&n oil filter along with it...

Answer 1

Any major oil brand would be fine, make sure it's the recommended weight for your car's engine, a K&N oil filter is fine(if you're made of money-lol), but I like the Purolator brand of filters(Fram is over-rated IMO). With 73K on your odometer, I'd suggest a semi-synthetic blend oil and I like Castrol brand(but Penzoil, Quaker State, Valvoline, Mobil, etc. are all good, quality brands of oil). I know that the high-performance full synthetic oils are all the rage(i.e. Redline, Royal Purple, Mobil One, Lucas), but unless you drive your car to the extreme and/or it's a high horsepower engine, running full synthetics will only drain your wallet IMO. Change your oil & filter regularly(every 3-5 thousand miles) and regular quality brand oil should be just fine.

Answer 2

I've had great luck for years with Havoline. Torn down engines with >100K miles and still see the fine hine marks all the way to the top of the bores.

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Answer 3

use whatever the owners manual recommends.

Answer 4

10W30, Oil company oil Texaco,Shell, etc. I never buy store brands or off brands like STP or CAM3.

Answer 5

when you get oil, get high milage oil.

Answer 6

I would stay with what is recommended for that engine.73,000 miles is not a lot of miles to go with a heavy weight oil. I think that engine requires 5W20W but might want to check..