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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:20:16 GMT
From: - Bob - <uctraingnospamanet.com>
Subject: Re: 9-3:  Mineral oil vs. synthetic


On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:26:14 +0000, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelationsnospamail.com> wrote: >There's no question about it. > >Use synthetic ( or even semi-synthetic ). It's perfectly compatible with traces >of the old mineral oil btw - don't fret. At that mileage it would probably pay >to run a flushing oil through it too or use a flushing additive when draining >the old oil if it's still fairly clean. > >Graham The downside to switching to synthetic is that it cleans out a lot of stuff that is in your engine. An engine that has higher miles and has run dino oil most of its life will have a lot of gunk in the engine seals - some of which is helping them seal now. Cleaning it out sometimes results in oil leaks. I think you'd be OK as long as it spent a fair amount of it's life on synthetic. Synthetic is much, much better for the turbo itself. Dino, changed frequently, is probably just as good in NA cars.

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