View Poll Results: What brand of oil do you use in your G coupe/sedan?
Motul (300v or 8100)
56
4.06%
German Castrol
44
3.19%
Amsoil
46
3.33%
Redline
49
3.55%
Royal Purple
79
5.72%
Mobil 1 Synthetic
653
47.32%
Pennzoil Platinum
132
9.57%
Valvoline SynPower
31
2.25%
Eneos Synthetic
22
1.59%
Quaker State
10
0.72%
Lucas Oils (synthetic)
6
0.43%
Schaeffer Synthetic Oil
4
0.29%
Nissan Ester Oil
171
12.39%
Conventional 5w30 "dino oil"
77
5.58%
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The DEFINITIVE oil thread
#16
However, Nissan's European Patent Application and Nissan's White Paper both have a slightly different story than what Eneos is saying. Since the Patent Application statements are made under penalty of perjury, I think they may be a little more reliable than what Nissan may or may not be telling Eneos.
The European Patent Application has been preliminarily denied because two other patents were issued a long time ago protecting carbon based oil additives. So, oil companies may be free to make their own versions of carbon additive oils once Nissan's appeal rights expire. In the U.S., there are no protections of carbon additive oils, so anyone could make such an oil. (And yet, no one ever has.)
I guess Eneos wants to protect its relationship with Nissan, so Eneos probably does not want make their own version of the oil without Nissan's approval.
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Found this site a while back since I was thinking about using Motul: http://shop.edoperformance.com/motul...30-p-9809.html
About as cheap as I can find online.
About as cheap as I can find online.
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Mobil 1 still seems to be a clear favorite. For those of you who have voted for Mobil 1, have you done a Used Oil Analysis (UOA) on the Mobil 1 to see how it fared in our VQ/VVEL engine?
#22
Why do you think there is anything special about this engine, that would make any oil perform differently? FWIW, I quit doing UOA after they kept coming back fine on my BMW...with 17,000 mile change intervals.
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That was exactly what I was meaning. Just trying to make a contribution to the myG37 community because I know for a fact there are many people on here who wonder what products are better to use in their cars as opposed to others. I had done some reading on my350z and there's actually many UOA's that showed (for example) that Royal Purple actually didn't do that well in the VQ. That was the source of my question. Just trying to learn.
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That was exactly what I was meaning. Just trying to make a contribution to the myG37 community because I know for a fact there are many people on here who wonder what products are better to use in their cars as opposed to others. I had done some reading on my350z and there's actually many UOA's that showed (for example) that Royal Purple actually didn't do that well in the VQ. That was the source of my question. Just trying to learn.
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as of 5000 miles, i run 300v. i get mine from sharif @ forged performance.
8100 and 300v should be separate options since they are 2 different levels of oil by the same company.
8100 and 300v should be separate options since they are 2 different levels of oil by the same company.
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Hmm I'm on royal purple now....guess I should me switchin to another, btw what is it that makes it not a good oil for our cars, I used to have a 350 and I was running with this brand and it seemed to run normal (never worse or had problems).
#30
What I don't understand is how people choose to use RP in the 1st place. I guess the cheesy marketing strategy works. Personally, I run away from any product that relies on testimonials. Hard test data is much more truthful. The Amsoil pyramid scheme is also lame, although Amsoil does make some decent oils.