Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:52:48 -0500 From: "Fred W." <Fred.Willsnospampam myrealbox.com> Subject: Re: Should I buy this 1992 9000 Turbo with 168,000 miles on it ...
"David Taylor" <djtaylornospamoot.com> wrote in message news:MPG.1acd8106fcf3e2ba989bf0nospam.individual.de... > > Yikes! Every 10k miles? On cars that I've used non-synthetic I always change > > the oil at 3-4k, maybe 5k max for cars like my mom's that don't get driven > > hard at all. On my Turbo I run synthetic with a quality filter and change > > both every 5k, that's how you get 250-300k out of an engine. Manufacture > > recommendations will get you through the warranty, then it's about shot. > > Well, one of the Saab sites suggests that a) US oil is inferior to that > sold in Europe, even the same brand and b) I can't help but think that > the US oil companies are quite happy to "condition" customers to believe > that 3 to 4k oil changes are the order of the day. > > http://www.nospam/servicing/servicing.html And now we come to appreciate why cars depreciate faster in England than in the US... They don't change their oil often enough. No way non-synthetic oil is not completely useless before 10k miles, Kilometers, maybe... -Fred W
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