what u think about pennzoil?

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

so ive used valvoline oil on my truck and my mom's since we got em.
went today to change the oil on her truck, and the shop owner tels me that valvoline has a price increase. around 8USD.

since we're on tight money right now he offered penzzoil. i check it and its still made in the USA and a bit cheapier than valvoline. Seems like im gonna use penzzoils from now on, i think its even worst having the truck with filthy oil.

any of you use penzzoil? whats your opinion about it?

i dont want a whats the best oil thread, just some opinions from people using it.

thanks

 

[danger_ranger_club]

EVERYONE hates it. youll be hard pressed to find a quarter of the people that chime in liking it unless the people on the hate side dont comment

 

[heptofite]

eh, i used penzzoil HD-40 in my 2.3 for years and it never gave me a lick of trouble

 

[adsm08]

I use castrol in everything, so I don't have much to say about Penzoil.

 

[exbass94]

In the 1970s, 10w-40 Pennzoil tended to sludge up due to the high amount of viscosity index improvers used in it. First of all, it only affected the 10w-40 viscosity. All the other viscosities were perfectly fine. Second of all, that was the 1970s. It is no longer relevant today. Pennzoil, along with EVERY other oil company, has COMPLETELY reformulated their oils literally DOZENS of times since then. Oils today are a million times better than they were 20 years ago, let alone 40. Which is why engines are lasting 300k+ miles no problem, and you can go at LEAST 5k miles between oil changes no problem.

Virigin oil analyses, used oil analyses, and engine teardowns that revealed NO SLUDGE on engines ran on nothing but Pennzoil have shown Pennzoil to be some of the BEST oils available for the money.
I'm not a Pennzoil fanboy, in fact I have never used it, but I would have absolutely no reservations about putting it in any of my engines.

/thread.

 

[bmonee5]

if it is just standard conventional isn't it all the same? just different packages? i've used valvoline and had no troubles but if i had to guess as long as you change it every 3-3500 miles you should be fine...

 

[Hopman]

if it is just standard conventional isn't it all the same? just different packages? i've used valvoline and had no troubles but if i had to guess as long as you change it every 3-3500 miles you should be fine...

Same here. I've used on occasion. But my preference is Shell Rotella-T.

 

[Will]

EVERYONE hates it. youll be hard pressed to find a quarter of the people that chime in liking it unless the people on the hate side dont comment

That's a pretty unique argument. Let me try and understand: Less than 25% of the people that reply in this thread will like Pennzoil. On the odd chance that more than 25% like it, it's because the great, hating majority didn't bother to respond.

My opinion is that the vast majority don't care. We get our oil changed because if we don't, we might not get into heaven. We also get our septic tanks serviced, get our cats feline lukemia shots and don't step on the cracks cause it might break our mothers backs.

Buy the cheap stuff. I'm not smart enough to hate a brand of oil. The engine I care about the most is the one in my bus and it gets 5 gallons of straight 30All-Fleet. My pickup gets 2 gallons of it. The truck might only last 300,000 on Pennzoil or Wal-mart Supertech or All Fleet. It won't be the thing that sends it to the junkyard, trust me. Not changing will help it find the junkyard though.

I could care less about a throwaway Ranger engine anyway. I'm not going to spend money on that past the absolute neccesity. It cost more to replace the motor on a riding lawn mower than to replace a typical Ranger engine. We've got people here that pour full synthetic into leased vehciles.

If my artificial heart was lubed with motor oil, I'll go with full synthetic. I still need 35 or so years out of it.

 

[OilPatch197]

At the Bob is the Oil Guy forums, they say that PYB(pennzoil yellow bottle) is the BEST conventional oil you can buy. It has the best additive package.

They even show data points, I'm not going to look it up for you.

 

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

yeah i know its better to use a cheap oil than not replacing it at allt. im asking cuz ive heard people saying penzzoil is a pos, but none of em had a valid argument.

i was using valvoline cuz it seemd to be a good brand. theres castrol as a sligtly higher price but still lower than valvoline. and hes gonna get some shell oils soon.
i remember that my mom's 93 used penzzoil all the time, she sold it with 275,xxx miles and still runs fine, i just saw it today LOL.

i had no choice, cuz the truck had about 4k miles with the old oil. considering i change it every 3k. i was worried to keep driving it with that oil.

 

[Epixstar]

i like motorcraft but hay just changing the oil on time is 90 percent of the battle so if its what you can afford go for it.

 

[kemo]

If any of you use Supertech... and like it, you like Pennzoil... unless they no longer make it. The MSDS's are darn near the same.

If Pennzoil was bad, they wouldn't have it on the shelves.

 

[alaskan155]

the bad thing about Pennzoil it has a high perfortane(?)cant remember if that what it its call, basically a high wax concentration that creates sludge, any engine ive torn down that has ran a lot of Pennzoil has had a lot of sludge in it, and talk to any engine rebuilder out there and they will say the same thing

my last 302 i tore down was covered in sludge(enough you couldnt see the valve springs) on the inside but it still made 200k mile mark and ran(smoke a bit)

i personally run either mobile 1 or motor craft synthetic blend in all my engines with a mc filter and they been clean inside and out(mobile 1 even helps clean the inside over time, based on the performance difference, fuel milage, and left over soot on the tailpipe from the old oil)(last truck switched to mc after running mobile 1 for a while to save a few bucks, then switch back after 2 changes, and by the 2nd change of mobile 1 i could see soot on the tailpipe and residue on the rear bumper that wasen't there before )and eventual went away

i think it was quicker state(have to look at the sticker), to that was ran in the original 2.9 in my bronco ii, probably run that before Pennzoil based on the fact at how clean the 2.9 was when i tore it down do to a cracked head from the PO with 180k miles(thats all he ran in it)

 

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

maybe going with castrol would be a good idea then. ill use penzzoil for now since mi kinda broke lol

 

[Mafusa]

yo man pennzoil is crap man, ou can get wal-marts brand oil I think is made by valvoline or pennzoil not sure just doesnt have that name on it look for generic oils and on the back youll see who the manufacturer is for that generic brand, the only diff is you aint paying the price for the name.