About to do my first oil change on my new 08 dodge ram 1500 4x4 qc hemi 5.7L and I was wondering what you guys thinks is the best oil to use.

Reading some across the net it looks like Synthetic Oil would be a good choice but what brand and what kind


thanks

 

there is going to be a million answers!!!!! There are many many threds on this. It depends on how long you want to go between changes imo. You have an 08 so to maintain warrentee you MUST change your oil at a max DI of 6,000 miles, although almost all people drive under "severe service" reqirements and are suppose to change at 3,000 miles. If you don't care about you warentee do whatever you want I guess. imo and there will be a million different ones! If you live in an area thats not averaging temps below 32F and want to follow your service scheduale than just use a conventional oil and change at 3,000 to 6,000. If colder of if you want to go for overkill use a synthetic. mobil 1, amsoil, royal purple, penzoil platnium are probably the most popular and ANY of them will be much more than you need at a 3,000 to 6,000 DI. As for conventional I've always liked yellow bottle pennzoil but thats just me. But still at 3-6 ANY conventional that meets or exceeds the chrystler standards will be fine. I hope that helps. Now just wait and see because there will probably be someone that tells you not to listen to me, and that what im saying is compleatly wrong. Thats the nature of these oil threads full of urban legend that you have to pick through!

 

Ive heard that you want to break in an engine for the first 10,000 miles on dino juice before you switch to synthetic... Something about the rings seating better..

 

see what I told ya! I heard that if you add one bottle of Jack Daniels to your first oil change during a solar eclipse that the JD reacts with the polymers in the oil and will implant a super lubricated coating on all the parts of you engine. Then drain the oil after 3 days into the earn on your mantle whith grandma maybels ashes in it and mix them around untill you have a thick paste. Now what you can do with this paste is rub all your steeing joints and any other linkages. This will also give them the super lube property that you have in you motor, and the coolest thing is that if you tune your radio to 1350 AM, turn off your headlights at night and look into your rear view mirror and say your grandmas name 3 times a small interdimentional portal will open in your back seat so you can talk to your grandma!!!!! but thats only for you QC guys sorry standard truck owners.

 

^ I heard that too. But I heard it only worked with cousin jethro, not grandma mabel.

I switched to mobil1 at 1500 miles. I change it every 6000.

 

Here is the answer:

https://dodgeforum.com/forum/3rd-gen-ram-tech/135472-oil.html

 

hiefoencioefcioenopqefpo!!!! oh my god...

 

I'm gonna change mine when the dash tells me too. About 3K and probably use Castrol GTX and a Mopar filter. My 88 5.0 Mustang has 163K on it and when I tore into it a couple months ago to put a bigger cam in it, the engine has no sludge or build-up in it and still holds 40 psi of oil pressure.
I was going to have my dealer do all of the changes with Mopar oil, but when I got the receipt after my free first oil change last week, the bill would have been $61.12. Over $6 a quart and i don't think it is even synthetic Mopar oil.

 

You might want to check it they even use mopar oil. When I bought my truck they offered oil changes for 3 years for $200 dollers. I asked them what they use and they told me castrol and a mopar filter. So I bet their useing what you will use when you do it anyway.

 

My dealer uses Castrol Syntec blend and Mopar filters. 45 bucks, plus tax.