What motor oil do you use?

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JAWKNEEBEE

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I have close to 200,000 miles and was wondering what type of oil I should use right now I do use a synthetic oil from oil Can Henry's. I'm wanting to do it at home and save a few bucks.
 

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Will probably get tons of different reply's.
I use high mileage synthetic Mobil1.
 

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Iv always been a castrol guy myself. In my 87 mustang before I replaced the engine that had about 220K miles on it. I was running castrol high mileage. When I removed the heads and checked out the main on the original engine there was no build up or gunk once so ever I'm sure I could have rebuilt that engine and had no issues but I got a deal on a build block. I had gotten the mustang around 150K miles and beat the living crap out of the motor, I was 15-21 years old having that car and you can only imagine what kinds of things I did to that poor engine. It had small bit of blow by at the end of its life so I wanted a transplant and so got a bored engine better pistons and bigger heads. In all I ran the castrol high mileage from the day I got it and after each night at the local drag strip I would change the oil and that engine turned out to be good when I replaced it. That's just my experience and have gone with that oil since that day.
 

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Mobil 1 high mileage 5w-30 here. 147k miles. I bought my truck new, and ever since I started doing my own oil changes (65k miles or so) I've been using Mobil 1.

edited to add: I always change my oil when the oil % gets to zero. I've never done it based on mileage.
 
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07Burb

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Valvoline MaxLife 10w-30
 
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