Motor Oil and filters

[TheSilkySmooth]

Originally Posted by Lafiro

All these abriviations are throwing me way off. Dont understand much of them. Im not stupid, just cant read them all when half the sentence is just that!

Either way, I guess I will stick with Royal Purple this time.

Does anyone know if I deviate from bringing in my car to the dealership, if they will use that against me in the future if something goes wrong? (Assuming I just do the oil changes myself?) So far all maintenance has been done by them.

Just keep ALL the paperwork in your owners manual in the glove box. Receipts, dates RO's. I always ask for RO printout of any work done even at dealer so thier computer database doesn't go "mysteriously" off line during a warranty issue.

AFA oil and filter - tried 'em all over the years - settling on MOTUL 8100 eco-nergy (not in stores, imported from europe, from LTB motorsports online) and Wix filter but for the 2AZFE 2.4L motor - just a bit bigger but same specs. Car runs perfect now with this stuff - it didn't before. Too bad it like 9$ a litre! I am a MOTUL convert. I had Royal Purple 5w30 street oil in there a while back but wasn't crazy about it really. It ran good up at the redline with hammer down street race driving action but weird and nervous at tooling around grandma speeds. IDK. my dos centavos

[1stToyota]

Originally Posted by TheSilkySmooth

Just keep ALL the paperwork in your owners manual in the glove box. Receipts, dates RO's. I always ask for RO printout of any work done even at dealer so thier computer database doesn't go "mysteriously" off line during a warranty issue.

AFA oil and filter - tried 'em all over the years - settling on MOTUL 8100 eco-nergy (not in stores, imported from europe, from LTB motorsports online) and Wix filter but for the 2AZFE 2.4L motor - just a bit bigger but same specs. Car runs perfect now with this stuff - it didn't before.

51396 filter? If so, yeah, looks exactly the same except for being about a 1/2 inch taller. Same micron rating and flow rate. Too bad I had 3 Ea filters in stock already.