Engine oil Castrol or IDEMITSU

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4.0

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Castrol › Engine oil

JodyJoseppi 31 Jan 2023, 22:38

Warning light:
Engine noise:
Exhaust smoke:

Rating 5.0

Have also used castrol once on my alltrack and I use castrol in all the cars I work on/ take care of at home and never had a problem with it.

Pros: never had a problem

Castrol › Engine oil

vwjess 31 Jan 2023, 22:30

Warning light:
Engine noise:
Exhaust smoke:

Rating 5.0

I've used Castrol in all my VWs and have never had any issue.

Pros: no issues

Vehicle: Volkswagen

Castrol › Engine oil

Relevant-Ad-8022 9 Jan 2023, 13:25

Rating 4.0

I always use Castrol on both my Honda and Volkswagen.

IDEMITSU › Engine oil

spacecaptainsteve 2 Jan 2023, 22:17

Rating 5.0

Idemitsu to both, because it’s designed and tested on rotaries.

Pros: designed for rotaries

Castrol › Engine oil

usernamesherearedumb 28 Dec 2022, 22:36

Rating 5.0

Last oil change (Sep 2022, 100,094 miles), I used Castrol Edge 0W-40.

Vehicle: BMW

Mileage: 160903 km

Castrol › Engine oil

mossyoaktoe 28 Dec 2022, 02:00

Rating 4.0

Better to use cheap oil and change often than to buy expensive oil and run it out to 10k+ miles. Personally I typically use Castrol products and change my gasoline engines at 3k and Diesel engines at 5k miles.

Pros: use Castrol products

Cons: cheap oil

Vehicle: Jeep

Mileage: 3000 km

IDEMITSU › Engine oil

Grab_Turbulent 8 Dec 2022, 16:57

Rating 5.0

I use idemitsu rotary 20w50

IDEMITSU › Engine oil

Defensionem 29 Nov 2022, 08:46

Rating 5.0

I stick to Idemitsu. I have a Sohn adapter fitted, so it's 10-30 Idemitsu in the engine, twice a year and Idemitsu Premix in the Sohn adapter and in the fuel tank.

Pros: idemitsu in the engine

Castrol › Engine oil

Zeccede 29 Nov 2022, 04:22

Rating 5.0

I use the castrol gtx high mile full synthetic 10w-40 and a sohn adapter with ideimitsu. I’m sure non of the name brands will hurt As long as you change it frequently.

Pros: change it frequently

Castrol › Engine oil

pal 12 Apr 2016, 14:11

Exhaust smoke:

Rating 3.0

I was using the OEM Castrol 5w40 and recently switched to Castrol European Formula 0w40. I found that I had the oil level drop a bit (oil burn perhaps) with the latter. For the current change I went back to OE Castrol and will see if things go back to no level drop.

Pros: no oil level drop (OEM 5w40)

Cons: oil level drop (European Formula 0w40)

Vehicle: Audi TT