Oil change prices

Adamnthe_z

I was wondering what everyone is paying to do their own oil change, and best places to purchase oil/filters? I picked up 6 quarts of Redline 5w-30 and a purolator pure one filter for $85 (@ wholesale price $11.24 a quart vs full price $16)

Is everykne paying this much or even more? I miss $40 oil changes on my old 09 VW GLI

FairladyZ40th

Where did you buy red line?

Adamnthe_z

I got the oil from car quest auto store. They're a wholesaler for the dealership I work at.

AK370Z

Usually Purolator filter is $6. So $72ish plus $6 = $78. (+$1 for crush washer). I'm at 97,xxx miles (started at 3,600 miles) and 450+ autox runs and few HPDE later, Z pulls like brand new. NO issues with that Redline and purolator puro 1 combo

Some of our vendor carries the Redline fluid. If not, I buy from Summit every now and then.

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Jsolo

Walmart Pennzoil ultra (or the new platinum ultra - Pennzoil Ultra Platinum Full Synthetic 5W30 SN Motor Oil, 5 qt - Walmart.com ), + nissan oem filter. ~$35 give or take.

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FairladyZ40th

SMH... I'm not sure I'd use anything other than race oil on these things... I.e. Red line or royal purple... But that's me brotha if you happy with that and your car is too then power to you.

I only say it because just last oil change I put in Quakers top oil, I usually put royal purple, and I've noticed the cars oil temp runs hotter than usual and heats up slightly faster too. My personal experience, idk about yours so I'm just throwing it out there.

MarkGideon

Same here, but with a Purolator filter. I mostly just drive my Z to work on Friday and tooling around on the weekends. Since I am hitting less than 5,000 miles per year, I do an oil change around July and again around Christmas.

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mishuko

I've been using motul from inception (15k km to 39 kkm) and my tuner said I must have a very healthy engine.

I guess I don't drive it hard enough =X

jchammond

I've never used it;but have heard it is a very good oil/with a lot more synthetic properties than the other's.
not sure about Redline? heard it was good-but haven't researched it.....being almost 50/learned a lot about these so called 100% or Fully synthetic oils over the past year or so & have learned how much "synthetic" is really in these oils & what classifies an oil as "synthetic".....i'll leave it at that.

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barncobob

im on redline 5w30(ester based syn) and a Purolator PSL 14610 which is for syn oils. many of syns are not ester based as Nissan recommends.

Adamnthe_z

I completed the oil change today with redline and noticed my engine idles much quieter, no more valve noise on cold starts. This was my first oil change with my Z as its new to me, so I'm not sure what was in it before.

Filipe

this is such a vast "discussion" topic. Nissan also recommends mobil1, fortunately

MacCool

Oil change every 5000 miles, Mobil 1. Just like it says in the manual.

Nissan hasn't recommended ester oil for the Z since 2010.

EzDz

Change your oil every 3k miles religiously and you can run any name brand synthetic but, redline gets my vote

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