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Anyone running 15w-40 in their festiva?
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Mobil 0w-20 winter & 10W30 summer. Heavy oil hurts the horsepower & mpg on these small engines. Also take a look at how small the hole is in your HLA's. They dont like thick oil-Some people like to read fiction,I prefer to read repair manuals. Weird I know-
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10-30 in my Festivas all year longDoug's Daily Driver (Dad): '91 Ford Festiva L Manual "Old Yellow" got with 40,xxx mi... about 52,xxx mi. give or take now
Austin's Daily Driver (mine) : '91 Ford Festiva GL Automatic "Whitie III" W/ 0.40 over aspire engine from '94 Aspire "New Blue" rebuilt 92,xxx mi. then... about 96,xxx mi. or more now (on body)
Doug's work car: '95 Ford Aspire Manual "Whitie II" w/ swapped stock aspire engine from '95 Silver Aspire and has it's 5th transmission! 75,xxx mi... now with about 130,xxx mi.
Sold! '89 Ford Festiva Manual "Gaystiva" (sold to my Uncle) - got with 163,xxx..... now 163,xxx Sold!
TRANSFERRED! '89 Ford Festiva Automatic EFI "one hit wonder" Given to bolokid - got with 210,xxx ...... now with 210,xxx miles TRANSFERRED!
'94 Ford Aspire SE Manual "Assfire" - got with at least 350,000 mi
SOLD! '90 Ford Festiva L Manual look for Narion (or click the username) it's new owner on the forum! - got with 193,xxx miles... now has 193,xxx miles give or take SOLD!
R.I.P '91 Ford Escort GT w/ bad engine..... stripping for parts then off to the scrapper!
R.I.P '91 Ford Festiva Manual "Lil Red Rocket" bought brand new in 1991 with ~120 mi... ended with 227,xxx mi.
R.I.P '97 Ford Aspire 4 Door Automatic "Ford Metro" parts car - got with about 144,xxx mi.... ended with 144,xxx mi
R.I.P '95 Ford Aspire Manual Silver (one owner and one family car) got with about 50,000 miles ended with about 90,000 miles
R.I.P '94 Ford Aspire Manual "New Blue" got with 150,xxx.... ended with about 200,xxx (it's engine is the .40 engine in my GL)
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Yup, Mobil delvac 15W40 in everything I have except my weed trimmer and chainsaw.
Run it all year around.Comment
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10w 30 all the time. I think that's what the owners manual says to use. I run 5w 30 in my Subaru, that's what the manual says to run in it. Got great compression and high miles on both.Comment
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I beleve that 10W-30 is the most common of the oils.Doug's Daily Driver (Dad): '91 Ford Festiva L Manual "Old Yellow" got with 40,xxx mi... about 52,xxx mi. give or take now
Austin's Daily Driver (mine) : '91 Ford Festiva GL Automatic "Whitie III" W/ 0.40 over aspire engine from '94 Aspire "New Blue" rebuilt 92,xxx mi. then... about 96,xxx mi. or more now (on body)
Doug's work car: '95 Ford Aspire Manual "Whitie II" w/ swapped stock aspire engine from '95 Silver Aspire and has it's 5th transmission! 75,xxx mi... now with about 130,xxx mi.
Sold! '89 Ford Festiva Manual "Gaystiva" (sold to my Uncle) - got with 163,xxx..... now 163,xxx Sold!
TRANSFERRED! '89 Ford Festiva Automatic EFI "one hit wonder" Given to bolokid - got with 210,xxx ...... now with 210,xxx miles TRANSFERRED!
'94 Ford Aspire SE Manual "Assfire" - got with at least 350,000 mi
SOLD! '90 Ford Festiva L Manual look for Narion (or click the username) it's new owner on the forum! - got with 193,xxx miles... now has 193,xxx miles give or take SOLD!
R.I.P '91 Ford Escort GT w/ bad engine..... stripping for parts then off to the scrapper!
R.I.P '91 Ford Festiva Manual "Lil Red Rocket" bought brand new in 1991 with ~120 mi... ended with 227,xxx mi.
R.I.P '97 Ford Aspire 4 Door Automatic "Ford Metro" parts car - got with about 144,xxx mi.... ended with 144,xxx mi
R.I.P '95 Ford Aspire Manual Silver (one owner and one family car) got with about 50,000 miles ended with about 90,000 miles
R.I.P '94 Ford Aspire Manual "New Blue" got with 150,xxx.... ended with about 200,xxx (it's engine is the .40 engine in my GL)
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I work at a lube shop. 5-30 is recommended. Motor engineers spend alota time factoring in all the variables, manufacturer recommendations are for a reason. But 10-30 is fine.
Even though most 15-40s have super beneficial minerals I would not run it.
Find a good hi milage oil, valvoline maxlife 10-30 would be perfect.91 festiva L five speed red/black
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Used it only on old diesel Land Rovers... never have use it in gas engines...Comment
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I took Navdoc101's advice and checked out this site -WWW.Bobistheoilguy.com. Changed everything I thought I knew about motor. Turns out thinner is better.1989 Festiva L (work in progress)
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Yeah, 5w30 here although I may try 0w20 soon.Originally posted by FestivaFan1989 View Post
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I tried 0w-30 full synthetic one time. Burned enough oil to notice on the dipstick after a couple months. Didn't see any improvement on fuel economy so I switched back to 10w-30 full synthetic.
The newest stuff says it'll protect for 15,000 miles, we'll see how that goes lol-Zack
Blue '93 GL Auto: White 13" 5 Point Wheels, Full LED Conversion, and an 8" SubComment
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10-40 Mobil 1 all year long. The car loved it. No cold start issues either with the block heater.Comment
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