Veloster Turbo Forum banner

Motor oil recommendations?

1024045 Views 239 Replies 73 Participants Last post by  Mainia1
Has anyone other than me used the Lucas Sythetic Oil Stabilizer in their vehicles?
I used it in my 97 F-150 for 10 yrs., and sold it with 260k miles on it and never used a drop of oil, and never even had to go inside the inside to fix anything. so I know Lucas is good!
I am just curious if say a high grade Valvoline Syn-MAx oil w/ Lucas is just as good or better than the top of the line oils like Amsoil or Royal Purple?
  • Like
Reactions: 1
1 - 9 of 240 Posts
Not sure if I posted this elsewhere, but I may have found a very good oil for our cars. Liqimolly Leichtlauf High Tech
Napa seems to be the place to get it, its a special order item and in my case I had to order a box (4 containers) of it.
5W40/5L AIC LM2332 | NAPA Auto Parts

It's a German oil and here is a quote from their webpage on it. "Ideally suited for modern petrol and diesel engines with multivalve technology, turbocharger and with or without charge air cooling. Especially suitable where there are long intervals between changes and heavy duty engine requirements."

The spec sheet reads exceptionally well. It has a better NOACK rating than everything on X's list except the Red line series of race oils. It also has an extremely good viscosity rating, which as I understand it means it will stay being a 5w40 longer and resist thinning out.
https://pim.liqui-moly.de/pidoc/P000330/3863-LeichtlaufHighTech5W-40-11.0-en.pdf

Thoughts? I like the stuff, I'm at 3000 miles on it now and will likely send out for a UOA soon to see how far I can take it next time.
See less See more
  • Like
Reactions: 1
I'll send a sample out to blackstone when I do my next change. What does the calcium do? Do strong bones prevent LSPI?:crazy:
Well that's disappointing. I still have three, five liter containers of the stuff left too. I'll still get the analysis just to see what's what.
  • Like
Reactions: 1
tell me more about Cerma
Do you realize what you've just done.:haha:
  • Like
Reactions: 3
Royal purple is not a good oil for these cars, or any really since they changed their formulation due to EPA regulations a few years back. Use Pennzoil Platinum 5w30 if you want to stick with common brands or step up to something like Motul 5w40 or Redline. Shell makes damn fine gas, good choice there.
  • Like
Reactions: 1
Comparison of catch can contents after 3500 miles...

Pennzoil bottle is much thicker and looks like "oil", with a viscosity somewhere between the original oil and water.
Is that Pennzoil Platinum or Ultra Platinum? I forget which of the two is the better one for us.
I'll be changing my Liquimolly either today or tomorrow sometime so I'll have the sample sent out to blackstone this week. I'm very curious to see how it does compared to other oils on here.
I have the results of the UOA. Holy calcium batman! Other than that what do you think of it? I'm glad to see my silicon levels are reasonable given I run the K&N drop in in place of the thicker stock filter.
Text Font Line Design Parallel
See less See more
What about liquid moly?

Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
I tried this stuff once and posted an oil analysis sheet on it.

A famous member here who had all of his extremely helpful posts nuked a while back told me based on these results that the oil is just "meh". Much better off using Penzoil or Motul. A good oil, just not for our cars.
1 - 9 of 240 Posts
This is an older thread, you may not receive a response, and could be reviving an old thread. Please consider creating a new thread.
Top