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06-12-2015, 08:34 AM | Topic Starter |
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About oil change, and the synthetic oil
Sorry if it is a Q.
Do you use synthetic oil for oil change in your car? I have this link here about oil change: http://www.edmunds.com/car-care/top-...motor-oil.html But the technical terms are a bit too technical for me. |
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06-12-2015, 08:36 AM | #2 |
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we use synthetic in our trucks, changing at 10k.
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06-12-2015, 08:52 AM | #3 |
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We do too. We only change our oil in our big trucks once in the winter when things slow down at work. They usually have 4000 to 6000 miles on each one by this point, though.
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06-12-2015, 08:43 AM | #4 |
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10,000 on synthetic is good. I do this, but I change the filter every 5000.
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06-12-2015, 09:24 PM | #5 | |
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The point of synthetics is you have less wear on the motor, therefore less stuff in your filter, therefore no need to change the filter before the oil. Its not just that the oil "last longer" it last longer because there isn't crud in it. |
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06-12-2015, 09:42 PM | #6 |
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06-12-2015, 10:35 PM | #7 |
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06-12-2015, 08:43 AM | #8 |
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I use synthetics in my vehicles from the start and change every 10K. BUT you should not switch to synthetic oil if u have regularly changed your oil in an older vehicle with 75k + miles. Your seals and gaskets can start leaking.
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06-12-2015, 09:31 AM | #9 |
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This is not true for anything past the earliest versions of synthetics.
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06-12-2015, 09:44 AM | #10 |
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I have no idea if that is, or ever was true.
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06-12-2015, 10:28 AM | #12 |
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06-12-2015, 10:32 AM | #13 |
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If it starts leaking, it was already leaking. Synthetic will make an existing leak much more obvious.
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06-12-2015, 10:55 AM | #14 |
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06-12-2015, 10:57 AM | #15 |
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Heh. Pretty much
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