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1st time with Synthetic S70 1998

posted by  someone claiming to be Ray N. on  Thu Apr 25 04:38 CST 2002 [RELATED]

You can switch any time.

Problems with leaking seals are more common in cars built 20 years ago.

Mobil 1 is a fine motor oil. I switched my wife's 850 to it at 30K miles
and my 98 T5M (yeah, I know you love it!) at 1200 miles. The only one I
have heard any real complaints against is Castrol which has a synthetic
that is not as synthetic as it should be (Mobil has even sued them, but
I think they lost).

Synthetic might churn up some oil deposits so a couple of oil changes
at, say, 3000 miles after you switch could help flush that material out.
This might depend on the milage on the engine.






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