oil for long trip?

[kawasakiman27]

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If you where gonna go on a long trip, say 2,000 miles, would you change your oil from the standard recomended 5w30 to something heavier like 10w30 or 10w40? Will the 5w30 get too thin on a long drive especially during the summer in a high mile engine?

 

[RumpRanger98]

summertime I run a 10w30. as for as a long trip. I think you'll be fine as long as you changed the oil recently before leaving, and sometime soon when you get back. I don't think you actually plan on driving 2k miles without stopping at all do ya?

 

[exbass94]

Absolutely no reason to go thicker. Long trips are the best kind of driving for oil. It lets it get up to operating temperature and burn off all the condensation and crap in the engine. It's short 2 mile trips that are really hard on oil.

 

[Beef52751]

change your oil before you go with whatever you usually use, change it again when you get to your regular interval.
Beef

 

[rurouni20xx]

buddy i went from alexandria la to jax fla only stopping for gas, then went thru to tennessee and up 81 to honesdale pa on the 5w30 i had changed when i left. that was 2231 miles when i got there, changed the oil and looked just fine. drove around pa for a month then got to tn and changed the oil about 100 overdue (wasnt watching my odometer like i should have) again looked good. when i got back to la i drove another month and changed it when i should have and that 3.0 ran like a champ the whole way, just had the pesky check engine light due to elevation change but went away shortly. besides smoking/cracking the rotors on 471 in tn (8 miles of 10 mph switchbacks up and down the mountain 3 times) going up to pa then coming down it w/ the same rotors just thought to put the a4ld in 1 and coast down the mountain using minimal brakes i had no problems the whole time. use the 530 or 520 like what the trk calls for and youll have no problems i can assure you, no need to go thicker even in hot weather. after all, i live in la, 102 degree heat some days in aug w/ 100 percent humidity driving the heat index to 125. 530 pennzoil is what my dad used for years and i switched to castrol gtx, did great til the oil pump died and smoked 3 cylinders at 280k. now to rebuild bigger and badder, again will be using 530 but a full syn once breakin is reached.

 

[kawasakiman27]

Thanks for the input guys. I guess I'll keep using the 5w30.

 

[rurouni20xx]

not a prob, if anything experience has taught me quite a few lessons the hard way and i dont mind sharing so you dont have to learn the hard/expensive way like i did.