Ok. I always used Ford filters and fluids on my 02 F150. It had 80,000 miles on it when I sold it to buy my new truck. It never gave me a problem. Owned it since new and it never even had a warranty repair done. I have already made up my mind to do the same thing with my new truck. All Ford filters and fluids, prob run Motorcraft 5w-40 since I am not running B20. However, the BG rep at the dealer I work for (I'm a tech and it is not a Ford dealer) is trying to push their BG Diesel Oil Conditioner on me. He won't freakin leave me alone about it and he is really starting to **** me off. Does anyone have first hand experience with this stuff? What is everyone else using for fluids. Filters are a given, I will always use Motorcraft filters, but I have heard good things about Rotella T6 Full Synthetic 5w-40 oil. What do you think?

 

I've read a few consumer report-type articles about oil additives, not to mention a few threads here on FTE. The end result was always the same... oil additives don't do anything useful. The fuel is the important thing to worry about and many of those additives are useless as well... buy a good solid oil (T6 should be great after about 20k miles) and let it do its own thing

 

Using just the Motorcraft 15w-40 here.

My dealer did the first oil change with the Motorcraft 15w-40 but there was a different smell to it than the same oil I'm using now so my educated guess is they added something to the oil.

 

just what i thought. like I said, I have never used additives before and wasn't planning on starting now. This guy is pushing this stuff hard. Says that he has all this scientific evidence about how good it is. I told him that of course he would say that, he works for them. They can fabricate anything they want to sell the product.

 

I asked about the Lucas product on here, and it was brought up that the stuff will foam up because of the way the powerstroke operates. So I tossed the Lucas, and just just Scaeffer 9000.

 

I read someplace that there is a special "pack", or "charge" that ford puts in the oil at the factory, but I have been unable to confirm. It makes sense as I remember that the additive had a high carbon content to quite down the engine. My engine was noticebly louder when I replaced my oil for the first time with Rotella-T - Anyone with info on this please enlighten us...

 

I don't have real info, but I know that there exists a thing called "breakin additive" for oil. I think that's what they use at the factory.

 

Yes - I am aware of the break in oil - but there was an additive to the break-in oil some sort of carbon pack to quite down the engine - I just cant remember where I read it.