Thinking about changing all fluids to synthetic, thoughts?
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+1 the f-250 gets that lol.
Have you really or have you just given into commercial advertising? Have you really seen two motors with the same milage with the oil changed at correct intervals? (3k dino 5k synthetic). Yes synthetic lasts longer but you also pay more, for me changing my oil is not much hassle at all. If a car is maintained dino oil is doing the job just as well as synthetic. We've had a few vehichles break the 300k mark burning little to no oil, its all about maintance. Hell theres still a 91 ford ranger running around with 375k that we once owned.
Have you really or have you just given into commercial advertising? Have you really seen two motors with the same milage with the oil changed at correct intervals? (3k dino 5k synthetic). Yes synthetic lasts longer but you also pay more, for me changing my oil is not much hassle at all. If a car is maintained dino oil is doing the job just as well as synthetic. We've had a few vehichles break the 300k mark burning little to no oil, its all about maintance. Hell theres still a 91 ford ranger running around with 375k that we once owned.
Yup, but...
I'm not even inclined to allow that it lasts longer; as there's nothing about it that reduces combustion by-products (water vapour, acids, carbon, etc.), or that extends the additive life. 20% of motor oil is additives, the same additives regardless of the base stock (dino or synthetic).
This said, I have been running 10W-40 Pennzoil (or "Q", same thing) synthetic in my '03 GT for 70k miles, mostly because it's reasonably priced at Wally-World--but also changed every 3000 miles for the reasons stated above.
At the first sign of consumption it will go over to 10W-40 Valvoline MaxLife; I have run 4 or 5 cars to over 300k miles on that stuff...
I'm not even inclined to allow that it lasts longer; as there's nothing about it that reduces combustion by-products (water vapour, acids, carbon, etc.), or that extends the additive life. 20% of motor oil is additives, the same additives regardless of the base stock (dino or synthetic).
This said, I have been running 10W-40 Pennzoil (or "Q", same thing) synthetic in my '03 GT for 70k miles, mostly because it's reasonably priced at Wally-World--but also changed every 3000 miles for the reasons stated above.
At the first sign of consumption it will go over to 10W-40 Valvoline MaxLife; I have run 4 or 5 cars to over 300k miles on that stuff...
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