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Unless you know that your car is prone to overheating on long trips, or has some other problem (like a failed thermostat which will result in the engine running too cold in winter), highway speeds, and steady engine temperature result in much less wear than the same mileage one short trip at a time.
Switching to synthetic oil can make sense for other reasons, but I would not change the oil type just because of a 3k trip, and especially not just before starting one. At a minimum, you should change the filter after 1-2k miles when you change from one oil type to another. Even well cared for cars accumulate some deposits after that many miles on any oil, and changing oil type can wash some of them loose.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Should I go synthetic?, Albert, Sat, 5 Feb 2005 20:45:33
- A biased reply, Dick in Falls Church, Sun, 6 Feb 2005 08:51:34
- Synthetic or not (+), Vlad, Sun, 6 Feb 2005 06:20:14
- I did. And I experienced minor seeping here and there., Asia, Sat, 5 Feb 2005 22:36:14
- Re: Should I go synthetic?, Peter
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