Here are recommended oils for Corolla

[Ashhad4]

What oil you’re using right now

[afnanSJfayaz]

No idea. It's a used car and I don't have the maintenance history either. Lost the manual too

[tintin1]

Recommended oil for Corolla are 5w-30 & 10w-30

[Ashhad4]

I have a Corolla 2012 driven 86k kms always used petron/petron plus with drain interval of 5k. No issues. Liqui moly and other synthetic oils can last upto 10k kms or more but the problem is with the filter. Toyota filters wont last that long. So my advice is to opt for Petron Plus or Taglon with genuine toyota filter.

[haseeb.basharat]

I used to use taglon when it came in silver packing made by mobil askari limited Pakistan, white packing is blended somewhere else and its worse now. I switched instantly to liqui moly leichtlauf hightech 5w40 with drain intervals of 10,000kms, genuine/oem filter have 4 copies, if you are fitting original one than it can easily last upto 12000kms.
I’m facing zero issue in my car, engine is 2zrfe and on other oils it used to rattle or give tick tick noise at cold startup, but on liqui moly everything has disappeared, its smoother and better in all terms. It’s just that you cannot beat german oils.

[Ashhad4]

Petron Plus is made by Mobil Askari (I guess). White packaging Taglon oil is blended in Taiwan. I havent tried Taglon yet. Youre correct, there is no comparison between Liqui Moly and Toyota oils if youre talking about more than 5k kms. Changing the oil at 5k is more better than 10k or 14k (correct me if I am wrong)
Plus can you tell me part number of the oil filter?

[afnanSJfayaz]

Where do you purchase your oil filter? Dealership or some reputed parts shop?
Drain interval really isnt a concern as long as engine performance is improved.
Would there be a major difference in LM 5w30 and 5w40?

[haseeb.basharat]

5w30 isn’t fully synthetic, it’s synthetic only.
I mostly purchase filter from my friend who have a oil shop. LiQui moly authorised dealers also have genuine oil filters.

[afnanSJfayaz]

I see.
This is a pic of the oil. I showed it to a friend and he said that engine, oil gira rhi hai. This has me very concerned now.

[Ashhad4]

Change the oil and then check if it is reducing or not as you have bought the car recently and it doesn’t have any maintenance record.

[haseeb.basharat]

Which oil you’re using at this moment?
Also, I don’t think its reducing oil, as there is oil on top of gauge as well. Did you take it out when your car was cold in morning?

[haseeb.basharat]

Yes, i know its not a concern, but one shouldn’t be changing this type of oil too early as we in Pakistan fill up engines with great german oils and change them at 5000kms. These engine oils doesn’t reach their cleaning stage at that time, if you gonna go for mobil or liqui moly fully synthetic than you should drain it after 8-10k kms.

[afnanSJfayaz]

No idea about that either.
Will try to get the oil changed to LM fully synthetic 5w40 over the weekend InshaAllah and see what happens then.
Yes, this reading was from early in the morning.

[afnanSJfayaz]

Point understood.
I will definitely keep that in mind.

[brownrose78]

Can anyone share Pages from manual where oil spec. Details r mentioned
My previous owner did not provide me this

[afnanSJfayaz]

Some early morning readings from today to seek opinions if the engine is consuming engine oil. The reading I uploaded yesterday was from the 1st of January, early morning where the car sat all night. I took the dipstick out cleaned it with some tissues and took the reading.
Now this reading is of today, 10 days later where the car has covered about 400-500km since the previous reading. This reading was taken by directly pulling out the dipstick after the car had sat for around 8 hours.

The next reading is when I cleaned the dipstick and dilped it into the slump. I guess this is the proper way to take a reading.

This is a second reading, again cleaned the dipstick and dilped it into the slump.

I checked the engine oil of my other car which was brought brand new and I have owned it for a year and I know everything about it's maintenance history. When I directly pulled the dipstick out today after the car sat for around 24 hours the oil level was about 1cm below the full mark. When I cleaned it and took a proper reading the oil level was 2-3 cm above the full mark.
Please do give me your valuable opinions if you think that the engine is consuming oil.
I will try to observe any blue smoke from the exhaust too. Smoke definitely is produced in the morning keeping in mind the low temperatures of Mansehra.

[rockstar.mij]

Tell someone to accelerate the car on high rpm and notice the blue tinted smoke other than vapor volatile smoke....this smoke would be dense than normal vapour smoke..this is the simple test for engine condition...if it drinks oil than u will see blue smoke..

[tintin1]

Will try to get the oil changed to LM fully synthetic 5w40 over the weekend InshaAllah and see what happens then. Yes, this reading was from early in the morning.

Why would you opt expensive engine oil without removing the cause of oil reduction ?
Or you BELIEVE that feeding expensive engine oil will automatically rectify the oil reducing issue?

By the way, the dip stick is just showing a quarter liter less oil.

(Insight : Lowest & Upper level of dip stick is designed for 1 Liter gauge. If oil level on dip stick is at middle
between two points, it means Half Liter is less).

If you don’t know which oil previous owner was using, then simply top it up with any mineral oil like 15w-40 or 20w-50 (just for top up purpose). And carefully observe the level every day.

If it reduces again, then find the cause first.

[haseeb.basharat]

Sometimes its not engine, its the oil that becomes a culprit.

[tintin1]

its true.
thats why when car start reducing oil, then finding its exact cause is most important.