Synthetic oil changes
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Originally Posted by willwren
With my mods and driving style, I change at 6k. I had the oil analyzed at 6k on my 3rd change over a year ago, and it had less particulates than Dino juice at 3k.
I use a K&N oil filter with it religiously.
I use a K&N oil filter with it religiously.
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I say 5,000 just to be safe. I know when i had the inturige with oil life monitor which I use syntenic and mobil 1 filter in it. The change oil light didn't come on about 9,800 miles I did cross country trip.
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Originally Posted by L27Buick
i wanna change to synthetic soo bad, dont u guys worry about intake problems and not seeing it early cuz u went 6000 on ur oil?
If you're waiting for coolant to appear in your oil, that'* too late. I check my car weekly for leaks (usually every Saturday or Sunday). Granted, that'* a little excessive, but I put on 600-900 miles weekly.
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6K should be fine.. I go between 8-10K km between change of Esso XD-3 synthetic 0w-30.. went to 15K KM with UOA done with same oil. ( cause the distributor ran out of my oil ). hasn't sheared much. ( they say it'* a lil halfway thru it'* the oil life )
Tamaras car is a lil different.. hers guzzle oil for some reason and had the plenum replaced..
Wix, Purolator are both good oil filter if you can't locate K&N filter. I use the larger version oil filter PF52.. IMO I don't think there'* much you can gain from swtichin wix to K&N ( maybe lil more flow ).. Fram is no no.. it'* like the Bosch of spark plugs..
P.*. For those with oil monitor (00+).. wats the mileage and % reading before you change? Curious..
Tamaras car is a lil different.. hers guzzle oil for some reason and had the plenum replaced..
Wix, Purolator are both good oil filter if you can't locate K&N filter. I use the larger version oil filter PF52.. IMO I don't think there'* much you can gain from swtichin wix to K&N ( maybe lil more flow ).. Fram is no no.. it'* like the Bosch of spark plugs..
P.*. For those with oil monitor (00+).. wats the mileage and % reading before you change? Curious..