Which brand of synthetic oil is suitable for our EX35??

[raijin978]

My top choices are Mobil 1 and Pennzoil Platinium. My OCI is coming up soon and would like to do it myself because I'm paranoid to let the dealer or other places do it for me.

[jrmotorsports55]

I run Mobil 1.

Jason

[AZhitman]

Here's the deal - The best oil is clean oil. Seriously... change it religiously, and any brand of full-syn will serve you well.

With that said, I love M1, and Wal-Mart has it on sale at great prices on occasion (I stock up when they do).

OR, get WAY ahead of the curve and order it like this: Mobil 1 synthetic oil with free shipping from Amazon

[XIS]

I have been using Castrol Edge w/ Titanium for a year now

[danncas]

My EX is coming up for its 1st oil change since I bought it. Im going to let dealer do it. With synthetic. I don't want to me with the oil. Those days long gone. Maybe I will when I'm retired.

[XIS]

Let me tell you a little story on why I feel synthetic just is a superior product and well worth it. I am embarrassed to admit it, but here goes anyway...


My wife's Lexus RX330 has 100K... I have been using synthetic in it since we bought it 3.5 yrs ago and I have been changing it myself. Well last summer, I changed the oil at my folks house (12 miles away or so) for some reason, I bought a different oil filter. Checked the chart, got the right one (I thought)... my eyes are not as good as they used to be. I bought a #3008 and it should have been #3080 or something like that. It still fit but it did feel weird going on... but I tightened it all up, started her up - no leaks. Told my wife to have my 16yr old drive her home and I left first. It was about 9:00 pm on a relatively cool night in Phx. Luckily my son was new behind the wheel and drove it like an old lady home. I get a call when they are about 2 miles from home. "Dad, the car stalled" - I am like, "What?? That's strange. try to start it again and drive home slowly".... Minutes later, I get a call from my dad. "Is your son home with the RX?" I tell him no and tell him about it stalling. He gulps and says, "I Think you will need a new engine because your car dumped all its oil about 50 yrds from my house..." he followed the drips for another 1/2 mile until they were gone. Oh CRAP!
So here pulls up my son, slowly, burning oil smoke coming out from the hood...
I get underneath to drain the oil and nothing comes out of the pan... just drip, drip, drip...
SO - I run back up to WalMart and get another 5g qt jug and THE CORRECT filter. Put in the new oil, start her up. Everything sounds fine and just like it used to... That was about 7 months and 10K miles ago and the car is just as smooth and quiet as before. Drove it across the desert this July from Phx to SD in 115+ temps. Just like it never ever happened.

I am pretty certain that if I was running normal dino oil, her engine would have been toast.

[raijin978]

wow cool story I actually took the time t read it haha..awesome!!! so u stand by castro synthetic 100%? there are so many good brand out there just don't know which one to go for.

[mikey1951]

Castrol is a BP product for those who care!! Just sayin'

[XIS]

I think ANY full synthetic is miles above dino oil. I just use Castrol because I like titanium.

I have stock in BP... and mobil... so buy either one of those please!

[raijin978]

I'm leading toward Pennzoil Utra and K&N oil filter done alot of reading at BITOG forum haha and it's been recommended by Ferrari of USA can't wait to change the oil now..

[EX-KAT-35]

My EX is coming up for its 1st oil change since I bought it. Im going to let dealer do it. With synthetic. I don't want to me with the oil. Those days long gone. Maybe I will when I'm retired.

... OR u look at the bill and say ... all that money for an oil change
We use Quaker State synthetic/Royal Purple 3qt/2qt. Just personal preference since the car had 18k miles on it.
Over 45k now. I looked up the oil filter # and we bought a batch from the local Nissan dealer (same VQ35 series motor).

My oil gets changed twice a year regardless of mileage b4 winter and in spring/summer. That way my poor boyfriend is not under there in the middle of winter.

[EXceptional]

Here's the deal - The best oil is clean oil. Seriously... change it religiously, and any brand of full-syn will serve you well.

I'm with the Boss on this one.

I just did an Oil Change on the weekend and used this... one Jug does it.

[EX-KAT-35]

That's the synthetic Quaker State that we use in my engine EXceptional...

[pwgrated]

I currently have about 2200 miles on my 2012. Should I switch to synthetic at the first oil change interval at 3750?? or should I go a bit longer??
Funny, the owners manual on my 2004 G35 specifically said not to use synthetic oil. So, I never used it. Still had 122,000 miles on it when I traded it in and never had a problem. No mention of it in the 2012EX manual

But the extra insurance of using synthetic seems like a good plan.

[NJGuy]

Here's the deal - The best oil is clean oil. Seriously... change it religiously, and any brand of full-syn will serve you well.

I agree here.

I think any brand of 5W-30 synthetic with an API SM or newer rating should be suitable. I'd just pick whatever is on sale if I were in your shoes.

Unless you want to really test how well the synthetic protects the engine, make sure that you don't use an incorrect oil filter that causes all of the oil to leak out. (Sorry XIS, I couldn't help it )

Alternatively, you could probably also go with a 0W-30 synthetic (I believe most of these oils are synthetic anyway) for a small amount of additional protection during start-up on colder days and a marginal (and largely unnoticeable) increase in fuel economy.