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Fujiyama:
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What you first of all need to be sure of is if your engine already had problems - if there are ring (or other) issues, then you will have oil consumption problems no matter which oil you use. Is your engine the 2AZ FE or 2AR FE?? Your technician needs to let you know the state of your engine and find out why it is consuming oil.

As for the oils, I think they are all good lubricants. You can get Motul from Infinity petrol stations and service centres but they are not that many around. You can get Shell Helix Ultra from Enyo petrol stations while Castrol petrol stations sell Magnatec and their other Castrol brands. I bought Aisin, Mobil 1 and Pennzoil from some well known dealers here on this platform. I also bought Liqui Moly from an independent dealer a long time ago.

Thank you so much for your response

This is my very first service of the car in Nigeria, I got a tokunbo, engine and gear is untouched,
I don’t know what you mean by if it rings,

But firstly when I noticed the shortage I told the mechanic that help me with the servicing, he was shocked at first and said we will need to try a different brand to see if the problem persists.

I’m relatively new to this

dreezy007:
Thank you so much for your response

This is my very first service of the car in Nigeria, I got a tokunbo, engine and gear is untouched,
I don’t know what you mean by if it rings,

But firstly when I noticed the shortage I told the mechanic that help me with the servicing, he was shocked at first and said we will need to try a different brand to see if the problem persists.

I’m relatively new to this

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Some toyota engines came from the factory with oil consumption problems - the 2AZ FE is one of them. The rings are some metal parts of the engine that (if they are working properly) prevent 'excessive' oil consumption. The problem is that 'excessive' means different things to different people. Apart from extreme cases where old or faulty engines are literally drinking oil, a lot depends on the engine designer. Some manufacturers (usually German) design some of their cars to consume oil in quantities that may seem 'excessive' in other brands e.g. Toyota.

Having said that, your vehicle is a high mileage vehicle - and high mileage vehicles do tend to consume more oil, because their engines have suffered more wear and tear. The first thing that needs to be done is to get your mechanic to check the vehicle and do compression or leakdown tests (these tests will let you know if something's wrong with the rings and other metal bits).

You need to know the state of the engine before focusing on the oil alone. If you engine is badly worn, it will still drink oil heavily - no matter whether it is Hardex, Motul or Aisin oil.

Get the compression/leakdown test results and then we can begin to ask questions such as the viscosity of the Hardex used during your oil change and whether or not to switch brands.

Fujiyama:
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Some toyota engines came from the factory with oil consumption problems - the 2AZ FE is one of them. The rings are some metal parts of the engine that (if they are working properly) prevent 'excessive' oil consumption. The problem is that 'excessive' means different things to different people. Apart from extreme cases where old or faulty engines are literally drinking oil, a lot depends on the engine designer. Some manufacturers (usually German) design some of their cars to consume oil in quantities that may seem 'excessive' in other brands e.g. Toyota.

Having said that, your vehicle is a high mileage vehicle - and high mileage vehicles do tend to consume more oil, because their engines have suffered more wear and tear. The first thing that needs to be done is to get your mechanic to check the vehicle and do compression or leakdown tests (these tests will let you know if something's wrong with the rings and other metal bits).

You need to know the state of the engine before focusing on the oil alone. If you engine is badly worn, it will still drink oil heavily - no matter whether it is Hardex, Motul or Aisin oil.

Get the compression/leakdown test results and then we can begin to ask questions such as the viscosity of the Hardex used during your oil change and whether or not to switch brands.

Alright sir
Thank you so much for this excellent breakdown
I will conduct the necessary test with the aid of a mechanic

Fujiyama:
^^^

What you first of all need to be sure of is if your engine already had problems - if there are ring (or other) issues, then you will have oil consumption problems no matter which oil you use. Is your engine the 2AZ FE or 2AR FE?? Your technician needs to let you know the state of your engine and find out why it is consuming oil.

As for the oils, I think they are all good lubricants. You can get Motul from Infinity petrol stations and service centres but they are not that many around. You can get Shell Helix Ultra from Enyo petrol stations while Castrol petrol stations sell Magnatec and their other Castrol brands. I bought Aisin, Mobil 1 and Pennzoil from some well known dealers here on this platform. I also bought Liqui Moly from an independent dealer a long time ago.

Good day boss,
I checked a couple fuel station and service center at Enyo,

I check enyo for shell, eterna for castrol, total energy and AP, I noticed non of them had this exact 0w-20 oil available.
Which is very surprising to me and leave me a question to think of, because to my knowledge this particular Camry 2007-11 is very common in our society. So I’m thinking is it that most users of this car brand are buying other oil specifications like the 5w-20 and 5w-30.

I even happen to be persuaded by some of the sellers at the station saying most ppl that use my car buy what they are selling like the 5w-20. That they barely sell 0w-20. The enyo guy asked me to check island for 0w-20 that’s most what they distribute to mainland is what they sell(I.e what I met there). Also peached me he is a mech engineer and 5w- 20 okay.

I’m currently considering to just buy Hardex 1L-2L 0w-20 to top it up because that’s the brand I could easily find right now around. While I dive deeper to know and find a solution to this oil issue. Because I also do e-hailing time to time so I drive quite a lot so I’m being cautious of car performance and retaining longitivtiy.

I didn’t want to get influenced by all they said so I decided to do some more reading and research online and here are some finding relating to 0w-20 and 5w-20 I found.

dreezy007:
Good day boss,
I checked a couple fuel station and service center at Enyo,

I check enyo for shell, eterna for castrol, total energy and AP, I noticed non of them had this exact 0w-20 oil available.
Which is very surprising to me and leave me a question to think of, because to my knowledge this particular Camry 2007-11 is very common in our society. So I’m thinking is it that most users of this car brand are buying other oil specifications like the 5w-20 and 5w-30.

I even happen to be persuaded by some of the sellers at the station saying most ppl that use my car buy what they are selling like the 5w-20. That they barely sell 0w-20. The enyo guy asked me to check island for 0w-20 that’s most what they distribute to mainland is what they sell(I.e what I met there). Also peached me he is a mech engineer and 5w- 20 okay.

I’m currently considering to just buy Hardex 1L-2L 0w-20 to top it up because that’s the brand I could easily find right now around. While I dive deeper to know and find a solution to this oil issue. Because I also do e-hailing time to time so I drive quite a lot so I’m being cautious of car performance and retaining longitivtiy.

I didn’t want to get influenced by all they said so I decided to do some more reading and research online and here are some finding relating to 0w-20 and 5w-20 I found.

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I hope you've run (or you are about to run) those tests with your mechanic.

You seem to have a preference for 0w 20 oil. Was this oil used exclusively by previous owners?

Fujiyama:
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I hope you've run (or you are about to run) those tests with your mechanic.

You seem to have a preference for 0w 20 oil. Was this oil used exclusively by previous owners?

I went to see a mechanic this afternoon
Before going I explain to him about my situation
And I wanted to carry out a compression/leakdwon test as you stated here. I don’t know if this test will be conducted using a machine/mechanical tool.

He told me to come that he will check for leakage, I went there he checked and said there was no leakage…


Relating to the previous owner I didn’t see a service maintainance note. But I saw stickers on the car indicating the last two services and it both indicated 0w-20