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In Reply to: What's the word on sythetic oil? posted by albee33 on August 14, 2004 at 22:41:24:
I would say if you engine is fairly new (less than 15,000 miles), feel free to change over to full synthetic. I generally switch over at around 5,000 miles to full synthetic and for many years with many different cars I have gone with 5,000 mile change intervals (which generally worked out to three times a year for me since I averaged about 15K miles per years)without any engine problems in any of my cars during the past 18 years I have been using synthetics.A blend oil would be good for a car that already has a few miles on it or a new engine... change intervals with these oils can easily go 5K too.
Of course, always change your oil filter with each oil change! :-)
P.S. What kind of car is this 4 banger in!
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I just traded my 8 year old Cherokee for a new xB. It has the standard Toyota 1.5L. I started averaging 33 to 34 mpg with the second fill up! It's a terrific vehicle and I want to keep it fit. I may check into a blend or full synthetic at the second change.
Those are quite peppy weight to hp ain't bad.Me old 86' MR-2 had that motor 1.5liter 16v four/about 108hp.(TRD supercharge another 50)
Had some oil getting past valve guides early,probably due first owner(22k miles)abuse. Yet that little hi-revver never gave me trouble or stranded. Great fast short throw 5 speed.Sold at 128k miles,new young owner thrashes it,still after 162k miles no rebuild.Just a wonderful powerplant.
clb~out
"The line between America's funniest videos and the emergency room is fine".
Those new Scion xBs are pretty cool. With a new car I tend to get the oil changed at 1,000 miles and run dino oil (tuner speak for conventional oil made from dead dinosours :-) ) up to the second change and then switch over to synthetic.Next thing you know you'll be posting with pictures showing the "new shoes on my ride! Ya know you have to have some bling on the ride!" :-) :-) :-) (tranlations for the non tuner crowd... New shoes means new rims which are peferrable sportin some really low prfile tires - make them chrome for the some bling bling!)
Happy Listening,
Rich Brkich
Retailer & Audio Asylum Industry Liaison
Thought about a super-charger but decided on an air filter. Would post a pic but it's already installed. 8^) It does make a difference!
I have used Castrol and Royal Purple, both are great syntec oils. My 98 Villager GS sports a 3 liter v6 and has 2 1/2 inch pipes from the resonator,
Spectre short Air Ram filter for 20 additional horsepower.
Vista Ultimate 64 bit/e5300 Intel 45nm cpu/ASRock G41M-LE/Asus Xonar DS R 7.1/YamahaRX-V465 HT receiver/ Infinity RS1001 & Cambridge SoundWorks speakers/Yamaha YST-SW216 subwolf
Here's a picture, Cheers! Let's go racing boys!
Vista Ultimate 64 bit/e5300 Intel 45nm cpu/ASRock G41M-LE/Asus Xonar DS R 7.1/YamahaRX-V465 HT receiver/ Infinity RS1001 & Cambridge SoundWorks speakers/Yamaha YST-SW216 subwolf
yeah a supercharger and an new air filter are pretty much interchangable, i dont know why anyone would spend thousands of dollars boosting their engine when they can just drop in a $20 air filter and get the same performance gains...that was sarcasm, by the way.
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