Quick question switching to synthetic oil
11-12-2008, 09:35 PM
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Quick question switching to synthetic oil
This weekend Im switching to mobil 1 full synthetic, car has about 38k miles. Should I also use some engine flush before switching or does everyone just do a normal oil change and refill with synthetic?
Also, its ~5 quarts oil capacity on a 2.2L, right?
Hopefully walmart stocks up on the 5 quart jugs tomorrow. I went in today and they were sold out. At $26 per jug I would assume they'd sell out considering how expensive compared to other retailers
Also, its ~5 quarts oil capacity on a 2.2L, right?
Hopefully walmart stocks up on the 5 quart jugs tomorrow. I went in today and they were sold out. At $26 per jug I would assume they'd sell out considering how expensive compared to other retailers
11-13-2008, 12:09 AM
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It shouldn't cause any problems with your car. But then again, I know someone who had a car and for ~60K miles he ran regular oil and when he tried to switch over to synthetic it was leaking out from in between the gaskets and even after replacing the problem gaskets, the car continued to lose and burn oil.
11-13-2008, 12:28 AM
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just switch over no need to flush unless u want the piece of mind knowing u flushed ur ****, but it wont really matter, i run royal purple on mine now, i used to run mobil ext performance, nothin wrong, just swapped to ro yal purple b/c of the deal i get on my oil changes, cant beat free
11-13-2008, 12:54 AM
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This weekend Im switching to mobil 1 full synthetic, car has about 38k miles. Should I also use some engine flush before switching or does everyone just do a normal oil change and refill with synthetic?
Also, its ~5 quarts oil capacity on a 2.2L, right?
Hopefully walmart stocks up on the 5 quart jugs tomorrow. I went in today and they were sold out. At $26 per jug I would assume they'd sell out considering how expensive compared to other retailers
Also, its ~5 quarts oil capacity on a 2.2L, right?
Hopefully walmart stocks up on the 5 quart jugs tomorrow. I went in today and they were sold out. At $26 per jug I would assume they'd sell out considering how expensive compared to other retailers
11-13-2008, 08:47 AM
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Mobil 1 is fully compatible with conventional oil so you can just drain it like usual and whatever dino oil is left will not screw up anything with the new Mobil 1.
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I think my engine might be a transformer in disguise.
My engine takes almost 6.5 quarts to be at at the middle line.
I'm going to go see see if I have the all-spark hidden next to my tranny somewhere...
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11-13-2008, 11:51 PM
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Yeah I switched to Castrol Synthetic at 20,000 and its been beautiful since....
As for synthetic leaking, from what I understand and have heard synthetic molecules are smaller, so if you have leaks or almost leaks it'll show where they are...
But I don't know for sure, I just heard that somewhere....
As for synthetic leaking, from what I understand and have heard synthetic molecules are smaller, so if you have leaks or almost leaks it'll show where they are...
But I don't know for sure, I just heard that somewhere....
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