5w-20 GF-4 oil Toyota approved for all Lexi engines March, 23 2006

[Toysrme]

So... I've been running mobil 1 5w-20 synthetic since January anyway. Good for me. Apparantly I missed that in March, Toyota put out a TSIB that approved 5w-20 GF-4 oils for use on most of the older engine blocks.
Which is fine for me. A couple horsepower, easier pumping, better cold starts, no downside. Everyone else should pimp it.

Like always. Mobil oil's put out phenominal stats on Toyota v6's (and ofhand, everything else).

[xfeejayx]

Wow, new engines will use 0W-20? that's ...different. Too bad 5s-fe isn't on that list of 5w-20 approved engines

On a side note, does anyone think High Mileage oil really makes a difference?

[hassanbigboss]

So according to this does it mean that my 1998 CAMRY LE V6 with the engine 1MZ-FE can use the 5W-20 oil without any problems. The car has 120,000 miles on it. It has been well taken care of, oil changes and everything on time and has been driven like a grandma would drive

[Toysrme]

I hate engines driven like a grandma would. Those are the engines that never kept breaking in over time & keeping great compression on the piston rings.

The MZ block family is on that list of 5w-20 approved engines. It's up there.



0w-20 isn't really different. Many engines have been coming with 5w-20 for years. Some Ford v8's, BMW's, Hondas, D-chrystler, etc. Toyota is the worlds greatest follower.

High mileage oil does make a differance. But the differance is questionable, as the addative packages are way different compaired to specified base oils. Good, premium dino / synthetic oils are still better IMO than high mileage oils. If you are wondering about them, go on bobistheoilguy.com's forums & do some searching between oil types & anylisis on various engines.

[hassanbigboss]

Okay just wanted to make sure that my cars engine was included.