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R2D2 · 08-24-2009, 07:57 PM

So I called Toyota customer service today and got the mantra about "use what it says on the oil cap"-and got the same from the dealer. Both seemed unaware of the TSB and neither seemed to know why a 2009 MY vehicle would still be specing ILSAC GF-3 and API SL via oil cap. (Neither even appeared to know what to heck I was talking about for that matter).
That TSB is one confusion causing document judging by the similar discussions I've seen elsewhere on the net. I guess the only for sure is to use the 5W-30 at this point.

R2

Yaris Hilton · 08-24-2009, 08:08 PM

As for oil specifications, there have been a few exceptions in recent years, but the normal presumption has been that successive specifications cover earlier ones, so "GF-3 or better" is how I'd read that. My oil caps don't mention anything except 5W-30.

DerFlosser · 08-25-2009, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by R2D2

...I guess the only for sure is to use the 5W-30 at this point.

R2

I assume that you state this as "matter of fact" or are you planning to switch back.

08-24-2009, 07:57 PM	#1
R2D2 Crazy Oil Sniffer Drives: MM 09 Yaris 5 Dr LB "Click" Join Date: May 2009 Location: ME Posts: 498	So I called Toyota customer service today and got the mantra about "use what it says on the oil cap"-and got the same from the dealer. Both seemed unaware of the TSB and neither seemed to know why a 2009 MY vehicle would still be specing ILSAC GF-3 and API SL via oil cap. (Neither even appeared to know what to heck I was talking about for that matter). That TSB is one confusion causing document judging by the similar discussions I've seen elsewhere on the net. I guess the only for sure is to use the 5W-30 at this point. R2 __________________ "The howl was the sound of God’s casting pot, the morphing of my cells into shape, the forming of oceans out of molten premordial plasma. And I could feel it. I could cry for it. I could cry with it." -The Fitful One

08-24-2009, 08:08 PM	#2
Yaris Hilton Half a Bubble Off Plumb Drives: 2009 Yaris Sedan Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Bristol, Tennessee, USA Posts: 1,593	As for oil specifications, there have been a few exceptions in recent years, but the normal presumption has been that successive specifications cover earlier ones, so "GF-3 or better" is how I'd read that. My oil caps don't mention anything except 5W-30.