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Anyone remember the old TV commercial from the 80's "Motor Oil is Motor Oil"?
I have been pondering lubricants today....In my 08 Focus, the dealership did the
first few oil changes with the Motorcraft factroy fill "blend". After that I switched to Mobil One. Ran that until I traded it at 49,000 miles. Wifes 09 was a program car with 14,000 on it when we got it, and I put in the Valvoline "blend" on the first oil change (there is a Valvoline franchise close to the house) and I read all their literature, and they will guarantee the engine until 275,000 miles if you change every 3000 miles and register with them. I also had them do the full Valvoline fuel system clean where they use that pressurized deal to clean the system, and then ran the additive thru the tank, the car was a California fleet car, and was always (to me) kinda sluggish. It runs great now BTW.
Now, to my second question. Additives.
I am a HUGE Lucas fan and always run Lucas fuel additive in the gas when we go on road trips. We got 39 mpg in the 09 when we took it to Arkansas a while back. I dosed it pretty heavy going and coming.
The Fiesta manual says all of these additives are "not approved by Ford" I will have to go look up the exact quote.
On the Focus the manual said 7500 intervals, the Fiesta says 10,000 intervals. I did that on my 08 with the Synthetic, and the oil was always clean and it never burned a drop, but 10,000? This 1.6 TiVct is wound tight and has high compression.
What is the consensus among all of the folks here with little more knowlege than me on this issue?
I have been pondering lubricants today....In my 08 Focus, the dealership did the
first few oil changes with the Motorcraft factroy fill "blend". After that I switched to Mobil One. Ran that until I traded it at 49,000 miles. Wifes 09 was a program car with 14,000 on it when we got it, and I put in the Valvoline "blend" on the first oil change (there is a Valvoline franchise close to the house) and I read all their literature, and they will guarantee the engine until 275,000 miles if you change every 3000 miles and register with them. I also had them do the full Valvoline fuel system clean where they use that pressurized deal to clean the system, and then ran the additive thru the tank, the car was a California fleet car, and was always (to me) kinda sluggish. It runs great now BTW.
Now, to my second question. Additives.
I am a HUGE Lucas fan and always run Lucas fuel additive in the gas when we go on road trips. We got 39 mpg in the 09 when we took it to Arkansas a while back. I dosed it pretty heavy going and coming.
The Fiesta manual says all of these additives are "not approved by Ford" I will have to go look up the exact quote.
On the Focus the manual said 7500 intervals, the Fiesta says 10,000 intervals. I did that on my 08 with the Synthetic, and the oil was always clean and it never burned a drop, but 10,000? This 1.6 TiVct is wound tight and has high compression.
What is the consensus among all of the folks here with little more knowlege than me on this issue?