sx4 engine oil

juswiked · Postby **juswiked** » July 18th, 2012, 6:24 am

what is a good brand and body of oil to use on a 2009 sx4 and how much would i need, thanks

juswiked · Postby **juswiked** » July 18th, 2012, 12:10 pm

bump it

Postby **Dave** » July 18th, 2012, 1:08 pm

i use amsoil xl 10w30 coupled with a mann oil filter

juswiked · Postby **juswiked** » July 18th, 2012, 5:21 pm

that would not be too thin?

spanglish1 · Postby **spanglish1** » July 19th, 2012, 12:02 am

Redline 10w30 or 10w40 is excellent with a bosch royal purple or kn oil filter.10k oil change interval

juswiked · Postby **juswiked** » July 19th, 2012, 6:17 pm

how much quarts does it take

chris1388 · Postby **chris1388** » July 19th, 2012, 6:46 pm

^^buy 5...shud take 4 and a little bit...keep the rest to top up or next change.

aidan · Postby **aidan** » July 19th, 2012, 10:01 pm

I does use shell HX7. Works great!

juswiked · Postby **juswiked** » July 21st, 2012, 7:36 am

cool thanks

kdat · Postby **kdat** » July 21st, 2012, 5:13 pm

Shell HX7 with BOSCH Oil Filter 062 - Part #: 0986 AF1062

DSM_05 · Postby **DSM_05** » July 22nd, 2012, 11:13 am

Use whatever floats your boat. Make sure that:

1) You stick to the recommended oil change interval in your owner's manual
2) You choose the correct viscosity recommended in your owner's manual (10W30? 10W40? I don't know for these cars)

ONce the oil meets API SM/SN etc, you should be fine. People overthink this stuff sometimes IMHO.

kdat · Postby **kdat** » July 23rd, 2014, 5:05 am

Anyone use 5W 30? This is highly recommended in manual.

*$kїđž!™ · Postby *$kїđž!™ » July 27th, 2014, 5:00 pm

aidan wrote:I does use shell HX7. Works great!

company recommended.....

ng357 · Postby **ng357** » July 29th, 2014, 7:35 pm

Company does recommend anything once the supplier approaches them in the correct way. Ever noticed that Ftfarfan very close to lifestyle lol. Also on the audies their engine caps says use castrol oil (advertising gimmick) but Southern sales uses Shell.

Also note that the work shop manual says to use GL4 Spec oil only in the gearbox but for some reason Lifestyle uses GL5 shell... probably due to the availability

aidan · Postby **aidan** » July 30th, 2014, 12:22 am

^That's quite true. But I had a jimny doing over 168k kms using that oil from new, and never had an issue.

Big Z · Postby **Big Z** » July 30th, 2014, 9:09 pm

GL5 is not a replacement for GL4.
Just saying.....

ng357 · Postby **ng357** » July 31st, 2014, 1:38 am

Big Z what is your view on GL4+ by the way?

cinco · Postby **cinco** » July 31st, 2014, 7:18 am

ng357 wrote:Big Z what is your view on GL4+ by the way?

Gb oil is even more dire to use the proper rated oil. Gl4 and 5 are not interchangeable

Big Z · Postby **Big Z** » July 31st, 2014, 4:52 pm

Not seeing anything definite on the GL4+ spec. Rumour has it that its a GL5 with the chemical properties of GL4, therefore being compatible with both.
Im sticking th GL4 until beter info come about.

ng357 · Postby **ng357** » July 31st, 2014, 11:16 pm

yeah i tried to research it as well but found little information and came to the same conclusion.... that it had some characteristics of GL5

muzikman0319 · Postby **muzikman0319** » August 21st, 2014, 10:35 pm

The correct oil to use is 5W-30 but it is ok to use 10W-30 the first number represents the oil viscosity when the engine is cold and the second number represents the viscosity when the engine heats up. The "W" after the first number stands for Winter but that doesn't really matter. If you use an oil with a higher viscosity like 20W-50 your "tap-pits" will start to make noise because the oil is to heavy and its not lubricating the parts fast enough.