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Old 04-26-2006, 07:34 PM
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Royal Purple 20W or 30W

Hey, I've been reading up on everyone's reccomendations on Royal Purple use and I seem to get a 50/50 opinion on what everyone uses when it comes to it. Which is better for our cars 5W20 or 5W30? This is NOT a thread about synthetic or not-synthetic. I could care less. I'm going with RP I just wanted to get a good idea on which weight to use before I went through with it. My car spends most of it's time in North Carolina where it gets hot and humid/muggy in the summer and pretty nice in the winter, but I do go to nothern VA on occasion, which is about the same, just a lot colder. Thanks guys.

btw - I'm a car noob so I don't know the difference between oil weights, break it down barney style for me, thanks.
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Go with 5W20
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Summer 5w30, winter 5w20. Unless you're turbo'd, then always 5w30.
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owner's manual states to use 5w20, so that would be the best to go with
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Honestly it doesn't matter. Pick one.
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