Engine Oil Question

[bennzy]

Hey Everyone, I just have a question regarding engine oil for my MY06 VZ SS 6L. It is now due for a 180,000km service, yeah unfortunally its a high km car bought it with high amount on it. So just wondering do i still use the grade of oil thats recomended for my car or do i go a different grade. What are your thoughts and what seems to be the going brand of oil as well. I have tried to look on the forums but since i dont have much time to look and the internet i have at the moment is a usb stick one with like dialup speed i get frustrated when searching cause its too slow.

Thanks. :D

[Wonky]

http://www.ls1.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=97841 is a good start!! :yup:

[BR05CK]

I love it how the first reply in a thread on oil is always the same. The same response in the "is a good start" thread starts with a response very similar on may 2008. Yet 3 and half years later it's still going.
The guy just wants an answer. He said he has dial up.
Sorry some of us guys who browse the forum just want to ask a question and yes we know it may have been covered before but can't trawl through pages of posts.

Cheers

[mattnsw]

And the members who spend a lot of time here get sick to death of the forum being saturated with the same questions over and over and over again and eventually stop visiting. Wonky’s done the forum and the OP a service.

Also, why not ask Holden, a forum sponsor, any mechanic or the place the car is to be serviced, I’m sure the answers they offer will be just as good as the many varied opinions that will flood in from here.

[WORK8]

And the members who spend a lot of time here get sick to death of the forum being saturated with the same questions over and over and over again and eventually stop visiting. Wonky’s done the forum and the OP a service.

Also, why not ask Holden, a forum sponsor, any mechanic or the place the car is to be serviced, I’m sure the answers they offer will be just as good as the many varied opinions that will flood in from here.

So the forum is pretty pointless then?

[cashie]

Does the car still drive and sound OK, if so, continue to use what you are using.
Short of that, Wonky's thread that he highlighted has some good reading, even on dial-up.

[cashie]

So the forum is pretty pointless then?

Are you serious, what's pointless is people not searching for the valuable information contained in the forum..

[Wonky]

I love it how the first reply in a thread on oil is always the same. The same response in the "is a good start" thread starts with a response very similar on may 2008. Yet 3 and half years later it's still going.
The guy just wants an answer. He said he has dial up.
Sorry some of us guys who browse the forum just want to ask a question and yes we know it may have been covered before but can't trawl through pages of posts.

Cheers

Asking what oil to use is like asking what footy team he should barrack for - there is no one right answer and plenty of alternatives, most that the people who use any particular one swear by but others have, to them, valid reasons not to use. The thread I pointed the OP to gives various points of view and therefore food for thought for him and even on dialup shouldn't be a problem as it's mainly text.

[mattnsw]

So the forum is pretty pointless then?

The forum is not pointless, it’s about much more than ‘what mods’ will suit my car. It’s also a venue for discussion of an infinite number of subjects by car minded people with many differing opinions and experiences. Plus it offers a contact point for many sponsors who operate in the exacted fields in question.

There is already more than sufficient info on these modification subjects to keep a newby reading for a weeks. It’s better to search out, read and digest and then add to an existing thread if need be than to start a new one. The forum flows reasonably well as it is due to the efforts of the moderators who close down the new what oil, what exhaust, what springs and so on threads. Closing them down doesn’t make the forum pointless.

Imagine a forum where every new member asked the same questions as they joined. Then think about what these questions are, usually questions with no right or wrong answers. That’s when the forum would become pointless.

[Wonky]

The forum is not pointless, it’s about much more than ‘what mods’ will suit my car. It’s also a venue for discussion of an infinite number of subjects by car minded people with many differing opinions and experiences. Plus it offers a contact point for many sponsors who operate in the exacted fields in question.

There is already more than sufficient info on these modification subjects to keep a newby reading for a weeks. It’s better to search out, read and digest and then add to an existing thread if need be than to start a new one. The forum flows reasonably well as it is due to the efforts of the moderators who close down the new what oil, what exhaust, what springs and so on threads. Closing them down doesn’t make the forum pointless.

Imagine a forum where every new member asked the same questions as they joined. Then think about what these questions are, usually questions with no right or wrong answers. That’s when the forum would become pointless.

Precisely!! :goodjob: