Arizona, What Oil Weights are you running and why?

[ForSale24]

I'm mostly stock besides a lot of suspension parts. I plan to do The usual heat exchanger, intakes and exhaust (light tune) for street driving... What oil are folks running around here? Is there a default drivers switch to for our HOT weather conditions?

 

[alutwon]

I'm in Florida (it was 96 F today) and I'm running 0w20. I know Arizona is a good deal hotter so the switch might be justified, I think. I debated switching to 5w30 but read something about clearances which put me off

 

[kevinbonds]

I'm mostly stock besides a lot of suspension parts. I plan to do The usual heat exchanger, intakes and exhaust (light tune) for street driving... What oil are folks running around here? Is there a default drivers switch to for our HOT weather conditions?

I am in Florida, running mobile 1 5w30.

 

[Stefanovich]

A lot of dealers are using 5w30 here in Australia.

 

[ill-legal?]

I just switched to 5w-30 on my second oil change at 4k miles this week (first was at 1200 after break-in)...dealership didn't give any pushback when I mentioned I wanted to switch. I do feel like my oil pressure is *slightly* higher at idle when up to temp, now the lower end is usually around 18-20psi...so far at least. With the factory fill and while running the 0w-20 I was seeing it average around 16-17psi at idle (sometimes it would dip even lower but only very briefly as it tends to constantly fluctuate) with the AC off after a 25 minute drive, and I'd read that there were some concerns that those numbers were not ideal for the VR30.

 

[Stefanovich]

I just switched to 5w-30 on my second oil change at 4k miles this week (first was at 1200 after break-in)...dealership didn't give any pushback when I mentioned I wanted to switch. I do feel like my oil pressure is *slightly* higher at idle when up to temp, now the lower end is usually around 18-20psi...so far at least. With the factory fill and while running the 0w-20 I was seeing it average around 16-17psi at idle (sometimes it would dip even lower but only very briefly as it tends to constantly fluctuate) with the AC off after a 25 minute drive, and I'd read that there were some concerns that those numbers were not ideal for the VR30.

I found the same increase in oil pressure at idle when going to 5w/30, the previous lower oil pressure was very concerning. No difference in pressure though at WOT All good.

 

[thesilverbullet]

10-30. The average lowest temp Is low-mid 30’s. possible to hit teens for lows but rare.

fyi - the closer the two numbers the better.

 

[Madgud]

A lot of dealers are using 5w30 here in Australia.

In fact, my dealer actually told me Nissan Australia has recommended its dealers to switch to 5w30 instead of 0w20 because of our climate.