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| Answer to: The ultimate Toyota conventional or synthetic shoot out | 75Relevance | 1 year ago | Oskool | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I haven't heard of conventional oil having any benefits over synthetic oil. synthetic oil maintains it's rated viscosity longer under high heat than conventional oil. I visualize viscosity by comparing maple syrup to water. The maple syrup is a thicker liquid than water, so the maple syrup has more viscosity. Viscosity is simply how easily a liquid flows. High viscosity liquids are thicker and flow more slowly compared to low viscosity liquids such as water. Since synthetic oil can maintain it's viscosity longer than conventional oil. The synthetic oil won ... | |||||
| Answer to: Can I switch to synthetic oil in my 2000 Accord? | 58Relevance | 4 years ago | OLD GUYS RULE | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I think you should keep using conventional oil for two reasons. The first one is the conventional oil has worked well since your car is 21 years old with high mileage. The second reason is that my recent experience of switching from conventional oil to synthetic blend in a 20 year old engine with 153K miles seems to have resulted in a minor oil leak at the rear main seal. The oil experts say the synthetic oils flow better than conventional oil and may flow past old, worn seals where conventional oil may not. They also say that synthetic oils have better cle ... | |||||
| Answer to: Changing oil from semi-synthetic to full synthetic on my 2009 Mazda6 3.7L V6 | 42Relevance | 5 years ago | lukenukeem | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| The main issue with semi-synthetic is how much full synthetic is in the oil? 50% 5%? To me either go with natural oil or full synthetic. The blended oil is just a money grab. I only use full synthetic in my vehicles. I know it's better for the engine and for me it's not that expensive. In short, I recommend full synthetic | |||||
| Answer to: Semi synthetic to full synthetic | 40Relevance | 5 years ago | Razmig Bartassian | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Full synthetic is preferred or even required nowadays in newer engines. It provides a better lubrication film than regular or blend oils because the perfectly sized oil molecules are engineered (hence the name synthetic), not refined from crude. You don't NEED to use fully synthetic in a car that doesn't specify it, but you CANNOT put regular/blend in a car that specifies full synthetic (this is part of the manufacturer's standards). Regardless of regular/blend/synthetic you need to make sure the oil meets the vehicle manufacturer's standards and oil rating. | |||||
| Answer to: Synthetic or Conventional | 37Relevance | 2 years ago | Hixster | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Many years ago when synthetic oils were in their infancy there were debates about using it in older engines, would it cause leaks and whether one should switch or not. Improvements have been made in synthetic oil since then and today's synthetic oil is better than conventional oil. Bottom line, those days are long gone as synthetic oil is the superior oil. Switching from conventional oil to synthetic oil in your truck would be an improvement. Of course you want to use the same, or rather the correct viscosity when you switch. | |||||
| Answer to: Full Synthetic or Synthetic Blend Oil | 36Relevance | 4 years ago | alban123 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I would get the full synthetic. It isn't really that big of a difference in price but as carlos says you don't know the exact percentage of synthetic oil if you get a blend. 8k mile oil changes seems a little long to me even for a synthetic, but it isn't outrageous. I have always done 5k with full synthetic, but thats just me. | |||||
| Answer to: High mileage or full synthetic oil | 51Relevance | 5 years ago | dm4722 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| 100k is hardly anything on a well built, modern engine. The idea that synthetic oil "causes" leaks or causes damage after using conventional for a while is really just a myth. synthetic oil will potentially amplify a leak, but that's a leak that was already there and synthetic oil's flow characteristics just made it more noticeable. High mileage full synthetic oils contain seal conditioners that will actually work to keep your seals nice and supple to prevent leaks and slow existing seal leaks. They also have more anti wear additives than regular synthetic. ... | |||||
| Changing oil from semi-synthetic to full synthetic on my 2009 Mazda6 3.7L V6 | 45Relevance | 5 years ago | Ilya | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... I took the car for the oil change to the Mazda dealer, they used full synthetic oil, which they didn't inform me of ahead of time and I only found out when time came to pay the bill. I was quite surprised and upset over it as I heard that you shouldn't switch to full synthetic this late in the game. But their explanation was that now they only stock full synthetic oil. So now I've driven the car on this oil for about 3000 miles and I haven't noticed any issues (no leaks). My question is should I go back to the semi-synthec or continue with using full synthe ... | |||||
| Answer to: Can I switch to synthetic oil in my 2000 Accord? | 45Relevance | 4 years ago | ItAintRight | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Hey clownlv318. Hello From California. So I was at the walmart myself the other day looking for some bargain motor oil and noticed that many of the stock listed "Full synthetic" or "synthetic blend" at prices near bargain rate. I think it has something to do with the recent drop and surge in oil prices. From my understanding, alot of conventional oil is derived from recycled sources and the synthetic comes from newer sources which wouldn't be so economically feasible outside of the recent drop in crude oil prices. For your particular use case however, it wou ... | |||||
| Answer to: 2011 Kia Optima semi synthetic? | 45Relevance | 5 years ago | Figmund Sreud | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Just so you know, there is lot of misunderstanding about so called synthetic oils. Some definitions: - Full synthetic (API Type III) is highly refined petroleum base with synthetic additives. - 100% synthetic (API Type IV) is formulated with a synthetic base and synthetic additives. - synthetic blend oil is a mix of conventional motor oils and synthetic base stocks. Just go to the API website to see all the types, specifications and definitions. F.S. | |||||
| Answer to: Oil consumption | 43Relevance | 5 years ago | RonJr | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... Q4: Is the car level and are you waiting until the car cold to check the oil? -------- Q5: Are you using synthetic oil (or) have you recently changed to synthetic oil? -------- Q6: Do you notice any blue smoke out the exhaust (especially when under acceleration or going up hill)? -------- Q7: Did you recently purchase the vehicle used? Note: If Yes to Q7, sometimes sellers will put synthetic oil it high mileage cars (or) cars with blown head gaskets because synthetic oil does not burn "blue" exhaust as synthetic oil can appear to have mostly clear / normal ... | |||||
| Answer to: No more conventional motor oil? | 36Relevance | 5 years ago | BruceREE | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Conventional oil being phased out by synthetic blend. synthetic blend is different from full synthetic. Full synthetic for a car that does not burn or leak should be perfectly fine. If you still would like to use something similar to conventional and cannot find it then synthetic blend will be your new conventional. | |||||
| Answer to: Conventional vs synthetic blend vs full synthetic | 34Relevance | 3 years ago | JVin | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| There is no point in using synthetic blend when you can get full synthetic for same price. These days, full synthetic is not much more expensive than regular oil. Both, Walmart and Amazon have good prices on full synthetic oils. | |||||
| RE: Full Synthetic or Synthetic Blend Oil | 33Relevance | 4 years ago | Mackey | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Agreed. I find it interesting that the only synthetic blend motor oil I have found that is Dexos approved is Pennzoil Gold. This oil must have a large amount of synthetic oil in it to be Dexos approved and still be classified as synthetic blend. | |||||
| Which oil should I use. | 43Relevance | 3 years ago | J.Jones | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Scotty, we've a 2011 Chevy Traverse & the manual calls for oil change every 3,000-3,500 miles or like 3ish months. I use synthetic oil in all my other vehicles, 04 Grand Cherokee, 08 Tacoma, 08 Corvette so I just started using synthetic in the Traverse before reading up on it. We inherited the Traverse so 1st thing I did was change all the fluids as it had over 100k on it plus it sat for about 9 months. I just figured synthetic was fine then I decide to research it, yeah I know, should of read up on it beforehand. Anyways I wondered if I should go back t ... | |||||
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