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oil change which oil S70 1998

posted by  Jack43 on  Mon Apr 17 04:44 CST 2006
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I've reused the same washer for every oil change (5K intervals, Mobil 1 10-30) for 130K miles. No leaks.

And I read an article on syntetic oil a while ago that said to check the level after the car has been sitting over night. Why? Because synthetic clings to the metal much better than dino (ergo it's value) and takes a long time to drain into the pan--so much so that checking it immediately after the engine has been running could result in an erroneously low reading. Just quoting the article...
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