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posted by  The Expatriate on  Tue Sep 9 13:52 CST 2003
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You could probably pop the switch out and clean it (be careful for the little parts). They usually get coffee and other garbage in them, and stop working. Sometimes the switch isn't the problem, but I'm assuming you've isolated it to the switch.

With respect to oil, I use synthetic in two Volvos. I have used synthetic in MANY cars before those. Personally, I don't flush the engine, but I'm not an oil expert either. I have had good luck simply converting, but keep in mind that I am very particular about changing oil with dino oil too, so no engine I've converted has had much sludge and junk built up on the inside. I've torn down parts of my engines run on dino oil, to find that they were as clean as I could hope they would have been -- even cleaner. If your engine looks clean inside from what you can see, try replacing the dino oil with synthetic.

Other people are far more qualified on oil than I am.
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