I've gotten oil changes at the dealership a couple of times. The oil they use is Mopar part number 50040856AA. When I look this oil up, Mopar says it does not fit my vehicle (2025 Tungsten with 3.0 HO). When I look at the specs there is no indication that it is synthetic. When I search Mopar for oil for my vehicle nothing comes up. Is the dealership using the correct oil? Does Mopar actually make an oil that is appropriate for my vehicle.
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Oil from Dealership
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I looked up the oil and yes it looks wrong to me. I had my oil changed today sstho as well. they used synthetic oil part number 68523970ca ow40. 7 liters for a full change. filter 68466307ab. here's a link to the oil they used in my 2025 1500 sstho I would get your oil swapped out
www.mlperformanceusa.com
MOPAR 68523970CA Engine Oil
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MOPAR doesn't make oil.......
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Hello everyone, I’m new to the site and new to Ram. This is the first Dodge product I’ve ever owned. ( Love the SSTS.O.) Reading this post about the proper oil not being used and seemingly the dealerships don’t know the proper oil to use makes me very nervous!! I’ve never had issues with knowing the proper oil to put in any of my former vehicles. The engine oil type has always been listed in the owners manual under capacities.
(Is this not the case?) I haven’t looked yet.
By the way, personally I would never change the oil at the recommended 10,000 mile intervals. (5000 to 6000 max), synthetic or not, I believe every 10,000 mile oil changes is begging for engine issues, especially with twin turbos!
If someone with more Mopar experience could give me more insight, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
(Is this not the case?) I haven’t looked yet.
By the way, personally I would never change the oil at the recommended 10,000 mile intervals. (5000 to 6000 max), synthetic or not, I believe every 10,000 mile oil changes is begging for engine issues, especially with twin turbos!
If someone with more Mopar experience could give me more insight, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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I have not used the dealer once to change my oil on my 2025 RAM Limited since I bought it. I use my own local automotive shop and use Amsoil 0w40w signature series full-synthetic oil. I have to protect my very costly investment to ensure my H.O. lives as long as possible.
Did a lot more digging. Seems to be the correct oil. See link below. Mopar does not list any oil on their website for the 2025 Tungsten. The Mopar site for the part number listed does not show any specs or fitment for my vehicle. But the link shows this to be a full synthetic 0w40, meeting spec MS-A0921.
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Hi, I have a 2026 Ram 1500 Tungsten, and I just crossed 3,000 miles. I got the truck with 30 miles on it and changed the oil at 500, 1,500, and 3,000 miles. The dealer insisted this wasn't necessary, so I did it myself. After all those years of listening to my grandfather insist that engines should be broken in properly... why not? It's cheap insurance, and it definitely won't hurt anything. This truck is extremely easy to change the oil on, I've always done my own changes on many cars and this reminds me of the old days! The first oil change had a lot of sparkles in it, the second had some, and the most recent had none that I noticed.
I've learned some things after doing this a few times that I thought I'd share...
Let the old oil drain out, put drain bolt back and torque, take the filter off, and new one hand tight only (duh)
Start by adding 7 quarts of 0W-40 (do not put 0W-20 in the HO engine!). Start the engine, let it come up to temperature on a flat, level surface, then turn the engine off and turn the ignition on only. Let it sit for 5 full minutes—this resets the oil level gauge. Then, top off to the level in the attached picture by adding another 1/2 quart.
I'll say that all three times, I just dumped in 7.5 quarts, and the first two times it showed this level. But earlier today, when I changed it again, it was showing closer to max. I was like, WTF, no way—then I learned about resetting the gauge, and now it's sitting right where it is in the picture. The picture is from a YouTube video, not my actual truck, but it's what it should look like.
Once you've done all of that, reset the oil life indicator in the gauge cluster, which is self-explanatory.
*If you have the standard output engine, you do all of this but use 0W-20.
I think using two different weights of oil between two nearly identical motors is going to cause Ram some big headaches soon, a lazy tech or an honest mistake could do serious damage to your engine. There's nothing but a cap on top of the engine to tell you any different. So, while it's new, I'm going to just do it myself.
I got the oil and filter from Amsoil.
I've learned some things after doing this a few times that I thought I'd share...
Let the old oil drain out, put drain bolt back and torque, take the filter off, and new one hand tight only (duh)
Start by adding 7 quarts of 0W-40 (do not put 0W-20 in the HO engine!). Start the engine, let it come up to temperature on a flat, level surface, then turn the engine off and turn the ignition on only. Let it sit for 5 full minutes—this resets the oil level gauge. Then, top off to the level in the attached picture by adding another 1/2 quart.
I'll say that all three times, I just dumped in 7.5 quarts, and the first two times it showed this level. But earlier today, when I changed it again, it was showing closer to max. I was like, WTF, no way—then I learned about resetting the gauge, and now it's sitting right where it is in the picture. The picture is from a YouTube video, not my actual truck, but it's what it should look like.
Once you've done all of that, reset the oil life indicator in the gauge cluster, which is self-explanatory.
*If you have the standard output engine, you do all of this but use 0W-20.
I think using two different weights of oil between two nearly identical motors is going to cause Ram some big headaches soon, a lazy tech or an honest mistake could do serious damage to your engine. There's nothing but a cap on top of the engine to tell you any different. So, while it's new, I'm going to just do it myself.
I got the oil and filter from Amsoil.
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Did you reset the gauge for 5 minutes after you did it?
I just did mine this afternoon (HO) and I put in 7.5 qts, it was right on the red line of MAX, I reset the gauge and it is now right where the level in picture shows. Try it if you want, all you gotta do is turn the truck on but not the engine for 5 minutes and it does it on its own.
I didn't get it at first because I measured everything out and had done it 2x before with same oil, filter etc.
Totally get the overfilling thing, when mine was right on the line I thought about taking out the plug and draining a little but figured there was no way it had more. I even let it drain out for a half hour too. This is where I wouldn't mind a simple dipstick, these sensors can be tricky.
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