Changing to synthetic

[willow140]

Can I just change from using regular oil to using synthetic oil?

[TheRealWave]

I did, at 7500 miles. I just let it drain for an hour(drip,drip) then finnished the change. See sig.

[pgriffith]

Yes you will be fine to change. Only problem in changing oils is if your use synthetic then change back to regular oil. That will cause problems because then you will start to have oil leaks. If you go synthetic stay synthetic.

[bu-bye]

How many miles do you have on your car? If you have to many miles switching will cause leaks.

[BattyV6]

The change over is alright, just run an oil flush through your car for 10-20 mins. before changing the oil. The flushes clean out all the old oil and it's better for the change. They're only like $10 or so, god for peace of mind.

-Andrew

[ravenp]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by pgriffith:
Yes you will be fine to change. Only problem in changing oils is if your use synthetic then change back to regular oil. That will cause problems because then you will start to have oil leaks. If you go synthetic stay synthetic.<hr></blockquote>


I had been running synth in my 97 for three years and it started to leak. I went and got a change done in the shop(i'm lazy) and went with regular oil and the leak stopped. I had 60000miles on the car roughly(100000km's).

I made the switch because synth is thinner and my guess was right.

Wouldn't it be worse to go from regular to synth in a high miles car not the other way around?

Just asking [img]smile.gif[/img]

[99Camaro99]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by ravenp:



I had been running synth in my 97 for three years and it started to leak. I went and got a change done in the shop(i'm lazy) and went with regular oil and the leak stopped. I had 60000miles on the car roughly(100000km's).

I made the switch because synth is thinner and my guess was right.

Wouldn't it be worse to go from regular to synth in a high miles car not the other way around?

Just asking [img]smile.gif[/img] <hr></blockquote>

I threw synthetic in once (only time) at 46,000 and kept it in for almost 6,000. I just replaced it with regular and I'm fine at 54K

[ February 27, 2003: Message edited by: 99Camaro99 ]</p>

[Sunset01SS]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by bu-bye:
How many miles do you have on your car? If you have to many miles switching will cause leaks.<hr></blockquote>
Switched to Mobil 1 in my 96 at 85,000 miles, no problems. No drips anywhere.

[willow140]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr> How many miles do you have on your car? If you have to many miles switching will cause leaks. <hr></blockquote>

I have 68,000 on my 96

[WickEdSix9838]

you can try changing but there is a chance you will develop leaks...i changed to Valvoline Synpower at 19000...

[strobhen]

Actually the chances you will get leaks is quite low

Newer engines are made to tighter tolerances and don't lend themselves to leaking due to synthetic usage like a 10-20 year old engine might.