rorischak
Active Member
I am sure many of you have already changed your oil in your new gen ecodiesel but I thought I would fill you in on my experience.
I have 2,500 miles on the engine and I wanted to get that old oil out and fresh fluids. I decided to go to dealer the first oil change simply because I heard about how hard the filters are to get off on the hemi's and did not want to mess around with it myself OR take to an independent quick change (I never trust them anyhow).
FYI, I purchased at Koon's so my local dealer is not my purchasing dealer
I called ahead to make sure the dealer had the filter and they did so I went to the express oil change lane. All started out well but after about 15 min the service advisor came to me and said they don't currently have the specific oil required and continued on saying that they had not done any oil changes on the new gen ecodiesels. I asked if the oil was the same as the previous gen and they said no. They gave me 2 options with the first being that they would order the oil and have it there the next day OR they would go down to the local autoparts store and pick up so I said that I would wait since they would send someone immediately.
They got the oil and everything from that point went well. I asked specifically what oil the put in and they said Pennzoil 5w40 full synthetic EURO which if it would have stopped there they had in stock from previous gen trucks but he said the NEW oil spec is required and the previous Pennsoil did not have is MS-12291.
After some googling, i found some information on this new spec on Fiat's forums but I don't know much about it BUT I do appreciate them wanting to put in the proper oil
I have 2,500 miles on the engine and I wanted to get that old oil out and fresh fluids. I decided to go to dealer the first oil change simply because I heard about how hard the filters are to get off on the hemi's and did not want to mess around with it myself OR take to an independent quick change (I never trust them anyhow).
FYI, I purchased at Koon's so my local dealer is not my purchasing dealer
I called ahead to make sure the dealer had the filter and they did so I went to the express oil change lane. All started out well but after about 15 min the service advisor came to me and said they don't currently have the specific oil required and continued on saying that they had not done any oil changes on the new gen ecodiesels. I asked if the oil was the same as the previous gen and they said no. They gave me 2 options with the first being that they would order the oil and have it there the next day OR they would go down to the local autoparts store and pick up so I said that I would wait since they would send someone immediately.
They got the oil and everything from that point went well. I asked specifically what oil the put in and they said Pennzoil 5w40 full synthetic EURO which if it would have stopped there they had in stock from previous gen trucks but he said the NEW oil spec is required and the previous Pennsoil did not have is MS-12291.
After some googling, i found some information on this new spec on Fiat's forums but I don't know much about it BUT I do appreciate them wanting to put in the proper oil