I have almost 103K miles. Only conventional oil has been in it.
I've had a few people tell me that if I switch over now, it will **** up the engine.
Is this true? has anyone else switched over at high mileage w/ a MP5?
I have almost 103K miles. Only conventional oil has been in it.
I've had a few people tell me that if I switch over now, it will **** up the engine.
Is this true? has anyone else switched over at high mileage w/ a MP5?
I switched when I got my car at 85k miles and had no problems. Just make the switch - anyone who tells you that it's gonna ruin your engine just heard that from someone else who told them that it'd ruin their engine. It's a load of bull.
Conventional oil is so far ahead of what it was even 10 years ago that unless the P.O. liked to run 15-20K OCI on walmart no-name brand, rev the piss out of the engine as his daily trip to work and re-use oil filters you're safe.
That's good to hear. The person who told me actually is a friend from work - Our **** head GM had done this to his BMW a while back and asked my friend how much it would be to rebuild the engine. - My friend said that this was w/ any car though... Which is why I'm asking on here.
Nah - ever since I've had it it's had name brand oil.. I'm pretty sure the previous owner always had name brand oil in it too, since he usually took it to the oil change place. (I got it 5000 miles ago, and have changed it twice - when I got it and 3k later)
Oh, ever since I've got it I've been putting in lucas oil stabilizer as well.
I switched when I got my car at 85k miles and had no problems. Just make the switch - anyone who tells you that it's gonna ruin your engine just heard that from someone else who told them that it'd ruin their engine. It's a load of bull.
I always had mineral oil in my cars. Last year, at -35c,(screwy) car won't start. Battery is fine everything electric is ok. But man the engine was stone cold like an ice block. Finally started...but oh man powerful vibrations, took off slowly..then...BIPBIPBIPBIPBIPBIPBIPBIP!!!! an alarm!!! like an engine alarm!! I panicked, and stopped the car right towards a huge snowbank...let the engine run there for 5-10 mins..then I took off and it was ok...
So last week I changed my oil for syntetic..searched a bit for viscosity loses at low temps. Found out amsoil was best...but $$$..So I went for Quaker State Ultimate syntec 5w30. I want some crazy cold mornings to try this out!!
You'll get what you pay for with Amsoil. The Quaker State costs less, but can you go 12 months or 25,000 miles in a year with it? The protection from Amsoil is great, but the extended drain intervals are what make it the best bang for the buck. I guess it's not such an issue with the P5 since it hardly takes any oil(thumb). I really see the savings with my truck. It's a diesel and it takes 15 quarts..... Changing that once a year is nice.....
I have almost 103K miles. Only conventional oil has been in it.
I've had a few people tell me that if I switch over now, it will **** up the engine.
Is this true? has anyone else switched over at high mileage w/ a MP5?
Not 100% sure, but I was under the impression that if an engine were leaking oil, synthetic oil would just leak "better". If the engine is burning oil it's not a good to use synthetic either (probably a waste in terms of cost). Sometimes high mileage engines are prone to those problems. I still need to look into that...