My wife took the Sequoia to the dealer today for an oil change and when I got home, I checked the invoice to see if it cost what they quoted When I looked it over, I noticed the weight of the oil used was 5w-30, and 6 quarts used. I know the weights are supposed to be 0w-20 or 5w-20 and I think the capacity is more than 6 quarts. I checked the level and it looks to be over full, so that wouldn't be a problem, but I don't know about the 5w-30 weight. Anybody?
My wife took the Sequoia to the dealer today for an oil change and when I got home, I checked the invoice to see if it cost what they quoted When I looked it over, I noticed the weight of the oil used was 5w-30, and 6 quarts used. I know the weights are supposed to be 0w-20 or 5w-20 and I think the capacity is more than 6 quarts. I checked the level and it looks to be over full, so that wouldn't be a problem, but I don't know about the 5w-30 weight. Anybody?
This is a very common thing at most dealers, they have 5-30 in bulk and that's what they want to use for everything because its cheaper and faster.
If I go to the dealer I always ask them what oil they are going to use and they always say 5-30, then I tell them that the 5.7 requires 0-20 or 5-20 oil and they look at you funny for a min then look it up and try to charge you 40 bucks more because its synthetic.
Be diligent, also I have them give me the half quart thats left over because I paid for it!
My 5.7 Tundra takes 7.4 qts of Mobile 1 5w20. The weight wont hurt anything but Im concerned about the quantity since I believe the engines are the same and since my NEW Sequoia is coming up on its 1st oil change.
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RudyDep,
Do you get any increase in gas mileage with the mobil 1? I believe the oil level is ok, just above the full mark. I talked to the service manager today and he explained that the computer program makes it easy to just put in 5w-30, instead of the proper weight oil. And, he also said that I should be running 5w-30, since the weather is heating up for summer. I told him the owner's manual called for either the 0w or 5w-20, and he tried to tell me that was for winter time only. I guess Toyota forgot to put the summer time owner's manual in the glove box, along with the winter one!
kikerbiker, no, I really didnt see any noticable gain in mileage but in defense, I did add a lift and huge tires, exhaust and intake so I wouldnt really be able to answer that.
TJeeper...Ive been on this forum for quite some time now ( 2yrs ) and it has been verified that these 5.7's do NOT come with synthetic oil from the factory. Go to the Tundra forum and do a search on this to verify.
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