Synthetic oil

[Solara08861]

I took my car this morning to the dealer to get serviced and I asked for synthetic oil. All my oil changes have been with synthetic oil. The service rep told me that "TOYOTA recommends against use of synthetic oil"
Have anyone here done synthetic in their car and have heard of that TOYOTA recommendation?

[Jai_Jai_Binks]

its poo poo crap! any shop that rebuilds engines or any shop that deals with engine internals will always tell you mobile 1 syn is way superior than reg oil! and btw it might be cheaper to do a diy on the oil changes...a nice oil filter wrench and nice oil filter cap are your only tools needed!

[mmcdonald]

I have used mobil 1 synthetic since my first oil change. The car runs wonderfully at 30K miles, with about 10 oil changes.

Engines are engines. The only time you want to go with the manufacturer's required TYPE oil (not grade) is with a Ferrari, since other oils void the warranty. Sounds like your dealer didn't have any synthetic to sell, so "recommended" against it.

[mmcdonald]

BTW, Whaaaaaaaa!

You took your car to a DEALER to get it serviced!?!

Babe in the woods.

[RichD978]

I would imagine you get free oil changes for buying a car from them, and they didn't want to give the good stuff away for free?

[dvdchris45]

I'm runnin Mobil 1 Fully Synthetic 5W-30 in my car. Runs smooth as butta'

[Solara08861]

I took the car to the dealer to check on a noise the car was having. The car was due an oil change while it was there I told them to do it. Like I stated before that was what the service rep said. They did the synthetic oil change. He explain that the manual states that with the regular oil you don't need to change it till the 5000 miles.
I told him I do between 1700 miles a week on heavy highway traffic and I'm more comfortable with synthetic.

[Buckeyegirl]

The service rep told me that "TOYOTA recommends against use of synthetic oil" Have anyone here done synthetic in their car and have heard of that TOYOTA recommendation?

What a crock!!

[mmcdonald]

totally, what a crock.

Synthetic oil is rated for 15K miles between changes. Reglar oil is good for 5K. I change it at about 3K anyway. Then push in the odometer rod when you start the car to get rid of the maintenance light.

I wonder why your dealer lied to you about the oil. Either a rookie or trying to sell you something. Maybe the margin is slimmer on the synthetic, or they didn't have any in stock.

When I sold cars, that's what they told us to do if we didn't have the options a buyer wanted in inventory. Just bad mouth the option and point out what was wrong with it.

I hate dealers.

[dawp]

my dealer uses a synth blend when i have it changed,i bought the service contract so i wouldn't have to do it myself for a while, thou i have on my other cars.i know i probly paid out the but for that,but i wanted to take a break from that.

[jesse789]

my 2nd change i went to synthetic and my engine temp gauge since then has never pointed straight up (just a lil under) strange, but i even asked them to check it out 2 days later and they sed everything is perfectly fine with the gauges. i still change my oil every 3-4000 mile with the synth even tho the dealer them selves said i dont really have to bring it in till 10,000 ... but i get my tires rotated a lil more often then most and have them do that when i do the oil. (and i have them clean my trd filter (with my cleaner) since they like to tighten the hell outta the bolts on the box and i have a power component for amp mounted right over th efront one and i dont have the tool to get under it ..... blah blah blah ... go synth and u wont regret it (at least u dont have a beemer that costs 150 to oil change for a engine thats even smaller )

[mmcdonald]

Lower friction means lower engine heat. So your guage will run a little cooler, all things being equal, with synthetic oil.

[Toyolara]

I think what the sales rep probably meant was your cars not broken in yet (too new), and wait til like 10k before running synthetic.