5K maintenance

[1stToyota]

Originally Posted by TheSilkySmooth

The bulk oil should be ok as long as its not the pennsoil/qs/kendall recycled stuff. I have actually had BETTER luck with bulk valvoline and M5000 than stuff I got in the bottle at AZ. It must be batch sensitive. You dont know unless you try. A sniff is a good start - the bulk pennziol SMELLS like waste oil. Yecchh.

The Bro

That's what the salesman told me: bulk Pennzoil

I just think it's really odd that I see nothing but *Toyota* oil when I'm in the parts department, and when I say I'll try some of that when you change my oil, I get told bulk Pennzoil is the only oil available in the service department.