Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:46:26 GMT From: "James Sweet" <jamessweetnospamail.com> Subject: Re: synthetic oil
"yaofeng" <yaofengchennospaml.com> wrote in message news:1119371791.629370.311970nospam2000cwz.googlegroups.com... > It will hurt your pocket book for one. Synthetic oil is three to four > times as expensive as regular motor oil. I used to change oil every 5k > miles using regular motor oil. Now I do 10k. You can just feel the > difference in engine lubrication, especially in the dead of winter > morning start-up. > Make darn sure you use good quality filters if you stretch the change interval out that far, I've always done 3K for dino oil or 5K for synthetic, past that it's getting pretty dirty looking. 4 quarts of synthetic is dirt cheap compared to the cost of a new turbo.