Hmmm. Mebbe, mebbe notley. My AW4 was toast by anybody's standards. After an hour's drive, it started slipping badly, to the point where I could barely get it to move. It was okay when cool, but warm was a no-go. The fluid was black as what you describe.

A complete fluid replacement with NAPA branded Dex/Merc and it's been good as new for the last 15,000 miles, which includes daily drives of over an hour, much of that at 55-70, and most of the remainder in stop-n-go traffic. It has included many towing trips, too, with a ton or so behind me, some of which has been in 4WD moving slowly.

 

I have two questions about this post:

1. What's this photo doing on a family friendly site?
2. Does anyone know what the offspring look like?

 

Actually I just went out and bought some and thinking about changing it out early since I have valvoline MaxLife in right now. No since in going any further with a poor quality oil.

 

A red Subaru Brat.

 

I thought this was how the Aussies came up with the first utes...

 

This thread should have been locked a long time ago.

 

must be a 1st amendment issue...

 

Perhaps someone should exercise their second amendment rights and put this thread out of its misery. As a matter of self defense, of course.....

 

 

Why Mr.Lahey??

 

Almost exactly what I envisioned, hope it has a big litter cuz I'd like one.

 

 

Thanks for posting, Salad - everyone on here preaches Rotella, but I've never seen any proof about why until now.

RT6 will be in my next oil change

 

Just put 6.5 quarts in today!

 

Decided to change to Rotella T6 this last change due to the info in this thread.