A&Q about 350Z
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If they hired the kid who crashed a 50K Mustang I wouldn't.
http://www.compfused.com/directlink/4149/
3 Zs, 1 "Rusty", 4 more to go
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No, I'd never trust any place that pushed penzoil so much. In addition, one time I did take my wrx in there, upon inspecting it when I got home I found that they left the intake hose disconnected from my air box so I was sucking in unfiltered air...
Another time, at another jiffylube they had to drain and fill my old accord like 3 times because they couldn't figure out how much oil to put in...
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1979 Datsun 280zx
2002 Subaru Impreza WRX Wagon
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User: zcar Pass: zcar
www.JustAddBeads.com
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lol. I work at Jiffy Lube. And quite honestly....i think that they deserve most of the bad rep they get. but definately not all of it. Like any place, it depends on the individual store (unfortunately).
our store has some pretty awesome management/techs, and stuff like that pretty much doesn't happen. And if it does, its caught, fixed, and made right. there are procedures, and when followed correctly its hard to screw up. thats probably why our store has a pretty good rep.
now the jiffy lube up the road from us (3 stores total in my town) has a pretty bad rep. and they deserve it. bad uniforms, sloppy procedures, rolling stuff that should be fixed/tightened/noted, etc.
and i do agree about the penzoil thing. i wouldn't put it in my car. (wax based). but thats out of my control.
and as for the drain out thing. lol...yeah it happens every now and then. And i hope they didn't drain out all the oil :O. that would be stupid.
sometimes we accidently over fil, so the pit guy has to drain out a qt. or whatever it is. but 3 times? lol whatever...as long as they got it done i guess....
1975 280z
High School senior project
Daniel D.
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they left the oil out of a friend's Landcruiser. her motor locked up by the time she drove 1/2 mile.
and they shorted my brother's Dodge 4 quarts of oil.
If all were equal, none would be strong.
Ballistic,Ruler of Interstates
Stage XX+ 1993 Z32 NA
"SoulTaker"
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they blew my mothers jeep motor by putting on too small and oil filter, so they bought her a new one...ive been doing oil changes since i was 10, i still do them now..
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1981 n/a 280zx
1952 m38a1 jeep willy's
1971 fairlady 240z
95 300zx N/A
72 240z
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>No, I'd never trust any place that pushed penzoil so much.
What's wrong with Pennzoil oil? I've got a few friends with 500hp+ race cars who swear by the stuff.
85' 300ZX NA
86' 300ZX Turbo
88' 300ZX Turbo
89' 300ZX Turbo
300ZX Turbo Project
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Valvoline spilled a good quart or two of oil on the underside of my car and didn't bother to clean it up. my car smoked for a week from the oil burning off until i took a saturday to jack up the car and clean it.
up until that i thought the valvoline guys were really good.
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'05 350Z Chrome Silver Touring
'73 240Z
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my 89 ford econoline full size van, has a 4.9 straight six, with about 140k miles or so on it....
been using penzzoil since about 30k miles, the truck still doesnt burn a drop of oil...
It has been through hell pulling 10,000 lb trailors and all kinds of stuff, also been rolling on 31s for about 7 years or so.... (more strain right?)
whats the matter with penzzoil?
76 280Z
83 ZXT IC 16 psi STOLEN
86 300ZX RIP
80 ZX RIP
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HotRodLIncoln- that 4.9 straight six in your van is a really great motor ,i had it in a ford 4wd truck and pulled heavy trailers all over with it. i put 230,000 miles on mine before i traded for a newer truck. the motor never used a drop of oil and still purred when i traded it. it is a tough motor.
my local jiffy lube place tightened my oil drain plug too tight and caused it to leak oil around the plug. i had to get a new plug and neoprene washer to stop it. i never went back after they denied any responsibility for their crappy work. they said they torqued the plug to specs. but it was so tight i had to use a cheater bar on a wrench to get it off.
the best thing you can do in this situation is to tell everyone you know about the kind of work that they do and to pass on the info to their freinds-word of mouth advertising is a very powerful weapon!!
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1980 280ZX coupe
2001 maxima
1994 F150 4x4 van works custom truck
170000 and never needed mech repairs
1996 ford explorer -they cant all be good
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http://media.planetboredom.net/oilchange.wmv
"Pure Pennsylvania Grade Crud-e"
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Me YORGO...You Not
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No No No!!!
Progress:
Z32 Had to sell for DD 06 Sentra :(
S30 one of these days I will get around to putting it all back together.
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HAHA!!!!
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1980 280ZX coupe
2001 maxima
1994 F150 4x4 van works custom truck
170000 and never needed mech repairs
1996 ford explorer -they cant all be good
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hey Kcobabe--sorry about the attitude the other day. some days im not my normal lovable self. i apoligize for being so arguementive and wish you a happy weekend!
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1980 280ZX coupe
2001 maxima
1994 F150 4x4 van works custom truck
170000 and never needed mech repairs
1996 ford explorer -they cant all be good
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wow
"YES I will finish what I sta"
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1977 280Z blue 2+2,
1973 240z
1977 280Z coupe in restoration progress
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I've seen penzoil come out literally in clumps before - approx. 4,000 miles on the oil. Not all of it, but it was enough to prove the point...I only use Motorcraft, Mobil 1, or AMSoil now...maybe valvoline if I'm feeling cheap.
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'82 280zx -- 400+hp 355 sbc / T-56
'72 240zt - T3/T4 hybrid / TEC-II / not much stock
'82 280zxt - Stock...for now
'77 280z 2+2 -- Ongoing battle; currently in the process of "ricing
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I dont think that has anything to do with the oil, more the neglect of a car and poor quality oil filter or just an overall sh!tty car lol. I've used pennzoil for years myself and at each oil change it's always very clean still, and as said above I've got lots of friends with big power cars who wont use anything else. 4,000 miles is like 6,500 kilometers, I do mine every 5,000km/3100 miles.
85' 300ZX NA
86' 300ZX Turbo
88' 300ZX Turbo
89' 300ZX Turbo
300ZX Turbo Project
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i also think that the temp. you engine runs at will definitely affect the looks of the oil you drain out. if you have run it hard at a higher temp it will affect the oil.
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1980 280ZX coupe
2001 maxima
1994 F150 4x4 van works custom truck
170000 and never needed mech repairs
1996 ford explorer -they cant all be good
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That was a 2.3 liter 4 cylinder, running the penn oil and filter - it now has 163,000 miles on it, and not once, since I've switched over to Motorcraft, have I seen that same texture that came out. It could've been something other than the oil to cause that texture, but I've talked to a few other people (technicians) who've seen the same thing. None of them run Pennzoil.
You can run it all you want, and your engine may live longer than you...who knows. All I'm going by is experience, and after seeing that, I no longer wasted my money on it.
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'82 280zx -- 400+hp 355 sbc / T-56
'72 240zt - T3/T4 hybrid / TEC-II / not much stock
'82 280zxt - Stock...for now
'77 280z 2+2 -- Ongoing battle; currently in the process of "ricing
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Funny you mention that, lately the engine has been heating up pretty badly, and I still haven't seen the clumps return.
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'82 280zx -- 400+hp 355 sbc / T-56
'72 240zt - T3/T4 hybrid / TEC-II / not much stock
'82 280zxt - Stock...for now
'77 280z 2+2 -- Ongoing battle; currently in the process of "ricing
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i havent run pennzoil in a few years mainly because my last 7 vehicles were used and i didnt want to change brands so i stayed with what had been put in them since they werenew. ( they were all one owner vehicles prior to me buying them ) the amazing thing is that all of them had been running quaker state! is quaker state any good?
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1980 280ZX coupe
2001 maxima
1994 F150 4x4 van works custom truck
170000 and never needed mech repairs
1996 ford explorer -they cant all be good
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definitely, like zxtoy said, temp. affect oil life AND if the engine blow a Little of compresion down into the crankcase oil will get dark (contaminated) as soon as 1000 miles give or take .
Have you shared the left lane today?
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From what I understand, Quaker State is supposed to be an equivalent of Pennzoil. I used to work with a guy who worked at a machine / engine reubuild shop, and he told me that any time a customer came in with sludge covering the rockers / inner valve cover, he would ask them if they ran Pennzoil or Quaker State. He said almost all the time it was one or the other. Although we both know about any oil can sludge up, he said those two, from what he had seen, were most prone to it.
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'82 280zx -- 400+hp 355 sbc / T-56
'72 240zt - T3/T4 hybrid / TEC-II / not much stock
'82 280zxt - Stock...for now
'77 280z 2+2 -- Ongoing battle; currently in the process of "ricing
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You're right, any oil will sludge up if regular oil changes aren't done and the filter isn't swapped out at every change, and the engine itself is in poor operating condition etc. For all your friend knew, the oil and filter in that car could of been 5 years old lol
Look at my rockers after 4 years of using only Pennzoil Mutli-VIS 20W/50 oil, changing every 5,000kms. I run this car balls out every time I drive it too...
85' 300ZX NA
86' 300ZX Turbo
88' 300ZX Turbo
89' 300ZX Turbo
300ZX Turbo Project
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as far as i understand it, penzoil and quaker state are made by the same manufacturer. and they are wax based. Meaning that over time, you get wax build-up in your engie.
(prob why many cars don't leak oil, and why the oil drained in clumps)
personally, i don't want a bunch of wax in my engine.
but then again, this is all 2nd hand info. i've never really researched it myself.
1975 280z
High School senior project
Daniel D.
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wax is derived from petroleum, not the other way around. does anybody have facts to add to the thread or just conjecture? there seems to be some good discussions on oil bases in the past here, and "wax" is not one of the "base stocks" that oil is compounded upon.
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Very easy to follow instructions there YORGO.
In the Hospital where I work - Jiffy Lube has a different meaning -
"You're going to stick What!? Where!?"
Ed and Jeanne's
ZXelda 1981 280 ZXT: ZXena 1990 300 ZX
1941 Buick Special Sedanette (Betty)
1956 Dodge Royal (Dorothy)
1971 Buick Riviera (Rita)
1975 Ford F-150 Stepside (Fiona)
1992 Firebird (Frieda)
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Probably the latter Russell, lots of "a friend of a friend of mine" information lol I'm only speaking from personal experience myself, which is also concurred by people I know directly. You could eat off my rockers which have seen nothing but Pennzoil for the last 20,000kms! :)
85' 300ZX NA
86' 300ZX Turbo
88' 300ZX Turbo
89' 300ZX Turbo
300ZX Turbo Project
Post Edited (Nov 6, 12:28am)
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I've never used anything but pennzoil. I have 20,000 miles on my 200sx since I owned it, no problems with the engine. My dad uses only pennzoil as well, he had owned his jeep since 45,000 miles, now had 138,xxx. He has never had an issue. All he does is very basic things, oil, filter, air filter, fluids. I don't have a problem with it.
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1991 300zx N/A - Project
1995 200sx SE-R - Daily Driver
1982 280zx 2+2 - Sold
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NO
I have a few mods