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Oil weight
After years of changing oil and mostly using heavier weight oils, I learned something new this weekend. 20w-50 pours almost like mud, and 5w-30 pours almost like water.
I never realized the drastic differences. I have had higher mileage cars over the years, so I have used heavier oils. My preference, I guess. This weekend, the CE got 5w-30 Exxon oil (never used that brand before). I put Shell Rotella synthetic in the truck. She is driving mostly interstate, 70 miles a day. So I will go from 3k changes to somewhere around 7k. I'll try it any way. I switched my son's 300e over to Shell Rotella a few weeks ago. It's under 4 dollars a quart at Wally World. It seemed like I was changing someone's oil ever 2 or 3 weeks. I don't drive great distances, so I will keep conventional oil in my car for now. but wow, the pours were interesting....
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1989 300ce 129k ( facelifted front,updated tail lights, lowered suspension,bilstein sports, lorinser front spoiler, MOMO steering wheel, remus exhaust,stainless steel brake lines). (Gone) 1997 s320 154k (what a ride). Sold with 179k miles. Replaced with Hyundai Equus 1994 e320 Cabriolet 108k 1972 280se 4.5 153k Owned for 12 yrs, sorry I sold it [/SIGPIC] |
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You should see 20W50 at 5 below during a Chicago winter. Looks almost like grease!
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Throw a quart of Delvac 1 5w-40 or Mobil 1 0w-40 in the freezer along with a quart of 15w40 dino and 5w30 dino...
Mobil 1 flows, dino is pretty thick.
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Lee, I recommend that you use Mobil 1 15W50 or 15W40 mineral oil in your 1989 300CE. If you ask a service advisor at the local MB dealer I think he'll tell you that 5W30 oil is too low a viscosity for that engine.
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thanks, Fred.
I was just going to keep this weight in for the months of November-January or so. I'll check my manuals and see if this is acceptable, otherwise, I will drain and re-fill.
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1989 300ce 129k ( facelifted front,updated tail lights, lowered suspension,bilstein sports, lorinser front spoiler, MOMO steering wheel, remus exhaust,stainless steel brake lines). (Gone) 1997 s320 154k (what a ride). Sold with 179k miles. Replaced with Hyundai Equus 1994 e320 Cabriolet 108k 1972 280se 4.5 153k Owned for 12 yrs, sorry I sold it [/SIGPIC] |
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I'll second Ferdman's recommendation, especially given that you live in South Carolina. 5w30 is just too light a viscosity. I live much further north from you, in Toronto, and I still wouldn't use 5w30 dino oil. I run 10w30 in the winter, 10w40 in the spring and autumn, and 15w40 in the summer, all dino.
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Man you guys make a mountain out of this, just run 5w-40 or 0w-40 all year round. Heck I was running 15w-50 last winter and sub zero temps didn't affect starting at all.
AFAIK MB specs Mobil 1 0w-40 for all its cars.
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Hmmmmm........Oilthread = Comedyhour.
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I agree with you, Hatterasguy, about Mobil 1 being the way to go. But I'm a little concerned about switching my 11 year old M104 over to a synthetic. I'm nursing a very slight head gasket leak, and I'm worried about the synth potentially clearing out any grit/crap in the seals that might be keeping my head gasket problem at the minor seepage stage. I've seen this happen on plenty of older cars and I don't want to take the chance on mine. Hence my switching of viscosities through the year with the dino oil. If I was running synth, I'd just run 5w40 all year and forget about it.
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I also have a new E320 so I've decided to use 0W-40 Mobil 1 in both cars. 0W-40 Mobil 1 was developed for Porsche and is now considered THE oil for high performance European engines. I should add that Mobil 1 20 and 30 weight oils are petroleum based despite being called synthetic. Go with the oil Mercedes recommends (0W-40) and you are good no matter where you live or what you drive. |
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Oil viscosity--seems we've seen the topic before. My own practice has been just to RTFM and do what it says; I assume that the MB engineers knew more about the topic than I do. The Benz does well (at 166k miles) on the 20-50 that the manual suggests, and the Saab on the lighter oil that's specified for it.
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Considering that I can run 15w-50 in my old diesel for 7k-8k miles according to the lab a new gasser should be good for over 10k, or once a year.
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