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Oil recommendations
Posted by BrianM [Email] (more from BrianM) on Fri, 19 Nov 2004 05:59:04
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Our 2001 9-3 base is just coming out of warranty, so I will now be doing the maintenance.
Dealer has kept us strictly at 5k oil change interval and have been using part number 400132973 5W30 since mid '03 (35k mi), not sure why the switch from 286609 10W30. . .
Turbocharger blue smoke cold start problem finally got bad enough that they replaced the turbo at 39k. Not sure if related to oil type switch or just recognition of the extensiveness of the problem with owners and got permission to swap it out.
Going forward, as I do the oil changes myself, I want to know what is the best all-around oil to use (weight and synthetic or not) and interval. Eeuroparts.com has listed 5W30 synthetic molybdenum base, I see a lot of Mobil 1 users here, sounds like synthetic is the way to go. So then question becomes 5w30 or 10w30, and what interval?
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Posts in this Thread:
- Oil recommendations, BrianM, Fri, 19 Nov 2004 05:59:04 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Oil recommendations, Dick in Falls Church, Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:26:56
- 10W-30??, Eiron, Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:04:51
- oil ramblings, Dean, Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:47:18
- Re: Oil recommendations, bill h., Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:28:13
- Re: Oil recommendations, Heckler, Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:05:45
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