Chevrolet Trailblazer Maintenance...

**StockEngine** · July 28th, 2018 05:05 AM

meron palang dexos2 na mineral. I thought dexos required a synthetic formula. anyways good to see a 40weight. this will reduce oil consumption..

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**shadyanderson09** · July 29th, 2018 10:00 AM

This SUV requires 5W-30 Dexos2 mates, the 40W is wrong and will do you no good, it's thicker and heavier for the engine to deal with. Not mention the drop it will give you for your Fuel Economy because your engine will work harder.

The myth behind the oil consumption is due to the wrong oil being used. It won't consume any drop with the recommended oil. Give it a shot first guys and monitor it. Mine never consumed any until I have tried once with a generic oil, your best bet is the AC-Delco Dexos2 5W-30, this is the recommended Oil for this SUV.

Monitor it from there and let us know your experience.

**StockEngine** · July 29th, 2018 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by shadyanderson09

This SUV requires 5W-30 Dexos2 mates, the 40W is wrong and will do you no good, it's thicker and heavier for the engine to deal with. Not mention the drop it will give you for your Fuel Economy because your engine will work harder.

The myth behind the oil consumption is due to the wrong oil being used. It won't consume any drop with the recommended oil. Give it a shot first guys and monitor it. Mine never consumed any until I have tried once with a generic oil, your best bet is the AC-Delco Dexos2 5W-30, this is the recommended Oil for this SUV.

Monitor it from there and let us know your experience.

The Truth About Engine Oil Consumption in a Modern Car | Auto Expert John Cadogan | Australia - YouTube

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**shadyanderson09** · July 30th, 2018 02:31 AM

Originally Posted by StockEngine

The Truth About Engine Oil Consumption in a Modern Car | Auto Expert John Cadogan | Australia - YouTube

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Saw that video Bro a year ago and I know about that approach since I was a kid due to lots of car related discussions with my father, he is an Aviation Engineer.

Even though it's adopted now by almost all Manufacturers, since the EPA is always over their behinds, not all cars will consume oil and a car that will consume oil with one driver may not consume oil with another driver.

Anybody would hit a 100Kph/150Kph mate, but how each driver achieves it differs completely. Some drivers know what each engine likes and how to rev it properly and get it's best performance without blowing a gasket or stressing the hell out of any engine, aka toasting all seals and gasket in a very short period of time, while other drivers may rev an engine tits off without any real increase in acceleration at all and create all kind of future problems.

I can't tell you how many times I wanted to scream "PLEASE SHIFT" beside a cab driver with a Manual Gear-box, and how many times I wanted to shout "You have shifted too early".

An automatic gear-box is no different and share lots of aspects with a manual gear box, although they do the same function with different approaches.

However mate, bad seals and gaskets still exists, but clearance would be the same on all engines of the same model.

Another issue that's far away from engine clearance problem, and that will increase engine oil consumption, that John Cadogan didn't mention about, is Turbo-Charged Engines.

Montero Sport SUA, for example, is by far a Turbo-Charged problem and it's not related at all to the ECU/Pedals or Pedals misapplication like what the TV tried to explain before when the problem did arise. I was pulling in my hair watching TV and news as well as YouTube during that time!

Turbos as you already know Bro, get it's lubrication from the engine oil, if the oil is not changed regularly/dirty/contaminated, EGR and we all know what that means, or using the wrong oil and viscosity, this will shoot it big time, bearings and turbine as well as seals. Increasing oil-tight clearance and feeding oil to the engine combustion chambers. Diesel is not like gasoline engine, Diesel will feed on Anything including Oil and Propane, anything a diesel engine will inhale will increase RMPs bypassing your throttle input as well as your ECU altogether. And in some instance, this is called a Diesel Run-Away. Guys, Turbo-Charged Diesel Engine is not something to be messed up with, for anybody reading these comments, please, either service your vehicle properly and on time and follow best practice or DON'T buy a a Turbo-Charged Diesel, it's a damn BOMB in the wrong hands!

Shocking your Turbo Charger is another bad instance also as you may know, I have seen guys revving the tits off of their turbo charged engines then right away switch off their cars, cutting off the oil supply and lubrication for their turbos not to mention that the oil also acts as a cooler for their turbos. Either they have to idle for a minute or 2 before they switch off their vehicle or install a turbo timer because what they are doing is a turbo suicide, then they blame it in the end on the car and manufacturers, some real weirdos.

That's why the problem is by far bigger than just clearance man. Is the car new or used? Service History? Do you know the owner and the way he drives? Have you followed best practices for operating a vehicle? Have you followed best practices for operating that Specific vehicle? And the list will go on and on before we can even judge. If it is clearance, then why do some drivers report the oil consumption while others say it's some bogus crap?!

But based on my real world experience, this SUV doesn't sip a drop of oil at all Bro. I'm 37 years old and started to practice driving since I was 4.

**StockEngine** · July 30th, 2018 04:51 AM

28 oil issues here. imagine the undocumented ones(multiply by 10). new 5w40 oil caps?

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**shadyanderson09** · July 30th, 2018 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by StockEngine

28 oil issues here. imagine the undocumented ones(multiply by 10). new 5w40 oil caps?

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Aware of these stuff too mate, the longer dipstick and the oil cap issue. Not really sure about the Australian market, but we have the same SUV and it's neither manufactured in the Ph or Aus, Thailand is the way same as the Montero and the Fortuner. We have even tougher terrains and mountains in the Ph, plus the high temperature and magnets that would hold your car to the ground and make you feel that you are the one pulling the car instead of the engine, and how stressful is that over your engine and transmission.

If it's the wrong oil used, and the 5W-40 is the correct one hence changing the oil cap, then why it's not global and only in Aus? Do I have to mention again mate that I do have the same SUV? Vibration, shakes, seals, oil caps, dipstick, oil consumption. All these are propaganda if you were to ask me with hidden agendas.

I have heard more than that over decades about very reliable cars and suvs, just for the sake of hate, hidden agendas, emblem fanboys, paid propaganda, wrong driving and poor maintenance and the like. Rule of thumb is diving by the experience yourself to be able to judge.

Same as what Mitsu tried to do, so instead of screaming at their clients' faces saying you don't know how to properly maintain a vehicle, they, instead, preferred to bite over the bullet and left the door neither open nor closed and released the new montero sport with brake override (Can't recreate the issue, heh? Even if you tried a 100,000 times.).

But hell no Bro, that was way TOO decent compared to Shityota who bluntly stood and arrogantly blamed a damn floor mats instead of apologizing on air and say we are sorry and compensate the families of the toasted drivers who got f$cked in the *ss in a Petrol engine runaway hitting 60 to 100Mph without any driver input, people were shitting their pants calling 911 inside a Camry or a Lexus asking them what should they say when they meet their LORD! And yes, that wasn't a turbo or a Diesel, it was an ECU and Throttle Body defect and poorly fabricated buckets of sh$t! Yet we still praise them?!

Yet, the world stood on one feet mate when it was Mitsu, a Diesel Turbo charged and poorly maintained vehicles that did actually cause the SUA, and it wasn't 60 to 100Mph runaway? Lexus and Camry? Good job Mitsu in taking responsibility trying to solve the issue and not blaming it on damn passenger's headrest or the driver's eyebrows!

Spare yourself mate from these Internet brainwashing stuff.