Well the AutoRX and a new Nissan OEM oil filter are in place. I bought 2 oil filters at the stealership that banned me and went to Mr. Lube who installed the oil filter for nothing. The stealer threw in 2 washers as well. Does an OEM filter typically come with a drain washer - I suspect not?

 

Some dealers give them to you some dont....

Good luck with the RX, keep us posted, i like the RX ideas as well. As for the exhaust pipe carbon, I dont think RX will do anything for that, FP will though

Cheers

 

What Quest was suggesting is that based on the condition of my exhaust pipe, I was good to go and should have no trouble with aircare. He in fact has gas testing equipment at his residence along with everything else under the sun.

kcryan, please see my query on BITOG in the Additives forum re: AutoRX - initial use.

Thx

 

will do....wow i wish i had one of those....

 

This quote was with respect to AutoRX. I dumped 9 oz. into my crankcase yesterday and wanted to put the other 3 in but was reluctant to do so as I was simply following the formula. Frank said no problem and its now in the crankcase. He said the AutoRX will have stuck to the metal after 100 miles. I suspect that is about when the sludge removal process kicks in.

 

I picked up my 12 litre case of Esso XD-3 today. I won't start to use it until the AutoRX clean and rinse is complete in about 3,400 miles, which will likely be 5 or 6 months the way I'm going.

There was a small display on the counter at the bulk dealership - about 7 vials of oil with a metal ball at the bottom of each vial. If you turn the display upside down it is supposed to show the relative flow rates of the various oils at -20 Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit. It is amazing how much faster the metallic ball in the 0W30 vial fell to the bottom of the vial (about 3 inches high by 1/2 inch in diameter) relative to the 5W30 ball. There were about 5 other weights with 20W50 being the heaviest and a tortoise in comparison to the 0W30 flow.

 

What's the shelf life of oil? Any harm in letting the synthetic sit around for 6 months?

 

Members of BITOG are stockpiling cases of German Castrol like they're hunkering down for a war. I thought I read somewhere like a 10 year shelf life, but who knows. I may just have to take a few road trips and I've got one planned for a week from now, which is about 600 or 700 miles round trip. I want to get the AutoRX 1,500 mile clean phase over with and the old oil out of my car.

 

God no, Dino may be different but i know synthetic can go for 10+ years

 

A fellow BITOGER from Saskatchewan, in responding to a thread on BITOG, advised me that he runs his Esso XD-3 OW-30 year round with excellent UOAs. He said I should be able to see 15,000 km (9,300 miles) OCIs. I won't go that long but am inclined to try for a 12-month OCI which would equate to 5 or 6K miles the way I'm going.