advice: engine/motor oil to use

**silver streak** · April 18th, 2009 11:17 AM

good morning. car is a 99 honda civic vtec. it is due for an oil change. it uses honda's (casa) LEV SL 10W30 oil for its engine. i want to use non-casa oil na fully synthetic. driving style is easy driving lang...

what engine oil (fully synthetic) would you recommend i use as substitiute? by the way, im thinking of shell helix plus (blue)...would it be a compatible substitute for SL 10W30? what should i look for (details)when i buy a compatible oil? TIA

**voltscastillo** · April 18th, 2009 07:40 PM

what's wrong with casa regualr oil? i use it, it's cheap and has a good viscosity spread.

castrol magnatec is 900/gallon sa banawe. IT IS NOT semi-synthetic, so regular lang yun. 10w-30 din sila pareho, pero sa castrol pagbili mo sa labas bbili ka pa filter (ingat sa fake), ppagawa mo pa sa labas (ingat sa sobrang taga maningil ng labor), and in general, it's more of a pain in the ass ngayo't may cheap oil chnge na sa honda.

sa casa 850 all in na pati filter may libre checkup pa.

your honda will take any oil within the 10w-30 to 5w-30/20. you can go 10w-40, or castrol's fully synthetic RS at 5w-40. NEVER run super cheap 20w-50. napakalapot nun. pang 1976 Saturn lancer box type na lang ang 20w-50 ngayon (shell yellow).

only limit apart from the viscosity is cost of course. you pays your money and you makes your choice

**userfriendly** · April 18th, 2009 08:11 PM

Royal Purple 10w30 sells for 550 per liter.

**redpitz** · April 20th, 2009 10:56 AM

you can use shell helix fully syn, 5w40, it's a thin grade 40, cst aroud 12.1...

**testament11** · April 20th, 2009 11:17 AM

royal purple o red line kung gusto mo fully synthetic. may kamahalan nga lang eto. around 500-600 petot per liter

**oj88** · April 20th, 2009 11:18 AM

I would assume that Honda oil gave you 10 trouble-free(?) years for your engine. If I were you, I wouldn't change my oil brand.... forever.

**H1Tman** · April 20th, 2009 04:20 PM

Mobil 1/Royal Purple/Motul. Your choice.

**rusem** · April 20th, 2009 05:15 PM

regular mineral / synthetic / semi-synthetic... unless you use your car for racing. they're all the same. though the synthetic variant enables you longer intervals in changing oil. It is way more expensive which just offsets it. pare pareho lang yan imho. what's important is you use the oil which matches your engine's requirement. viscosity and temperature rating better known as SAE rating.

**silver streak** · April 20th, 2009 11:25 PM

medyo cash-strapped lang kaya thinking of substitute for the honda engine oil...had honda SL 10W30 (regular/mineral oil yata nila ito) and twice put in their fully synthetic SL 5W40
thanks pipol for the reply...

**1D4LV** · April 21st, 2009 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by silver streak

good morning. car is a 99 honda civic vtec. it is due for an oil change. it uses honda's (casa) LEV SL 10W30 oil for its engine. i want to use non-casa oil na fully synthetic. driving style is easy driving lang...

what engine oil (fully synthetic) would you recommend i use as substitiute? by the way, im thinking of shell helix plus (blue)...would it be a compatible substitute for SL 10W30? what should i look for (details)when i buy a compatible oil? TIA

shell helix blue, i think is semi synthetic. shell gold ata yung fully synthetic.
ako naman, i am recommending mobil one. costs around 750/liter.