Want it done right?

Do it yourself. It's the only way to know for sure.

 

uNbElIeVaBLe!!!!!!!!!!

 

A good synthetic changed between 7500-10000 miles will NOT sludge or varnish. Synthetics after 10,000 miles will keep an engine as clean or more so than dino oil at 3,000 miles. Additives are NOT recommended for these engines, period.


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Agree 100% no way will any oil sludge that bad in 8k miles. I heard a story from wally world where the gut doing the changes was ticked and decided to put the cars on the rack but didn't change oil in any of them all day, he was fired when management found out.

 

She missed a few? How about a few being like the last 6 consecutive oil changes!

 

Yeah dude, even with conventional oil, there's no way that'd happen after 8,000 miles on an engine that young. These cars should easily hit 200K plus with out any problems.

You should ask her WHERE she got her oil changes from....and if she still has the receipts.

 

Wally-World = cheap sorry chinese goods and apparently, they even come with employees with the lack of drive for excellence.

This wallyworld oil change gets my "it's not my job" award.

http://iversonfamily.blogspot.com/20...rd-winner.html

 

why do you think additives are bad? even seafoam?...explain your theory

 

SeaFoam is probably one of the additives that I WOULD be ok with but you should never need it with todays oils and apporpriate oil change frequencies. And only if i suspected a problem would I use it. Just about any other oil additives have been known to cause quite a few problems on the S197. Do a search and you'll find quite a few related threads.

 

WOAH!!!!!
Those pics remind me of that Ford commerical where the guy from
dirty jobs is looking at that engine with tons of sludge build up from not
changing the oil.