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Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 08:44:11 -0400
From: Malt_Hound <Malt_Houndnospamm*yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Oil Change Opinion


Pooh Bear wrote: > HSB wrote: > > >>I suspect there has been a lot written on this topic, but the debate in my >>family has reached fevered pitch and I'm looking to this forum for a >>deciding vote. I have a 1999 SAAB 9-3SE. Scheduled maintenance calls for an >>oil change every 10k miles. I don't live in a high sand/dust/useage area and >>think that if SAAB says every 10k for a change, that is good for me. I'm >>getting various opinions including changing every 2k. What is your opinion? >>Is 10k OK??? > > > You don't say where you're posting from. > > US drivers may be be more likely to use lousy plain mineral oil. That *will* > require frequent changing if you love your engine. ...and you know this to be true how? No, Graham, what you say is total BS. US drivers are *not* more likely to use mineral oil on a car that specifies in the owners manual to use full synthetic. Yes, there are bonehead penny pinchers on both sides of the Atlantic that may try to get by on the cheap, but please refrain from generalizing about things in the US since you quite obviously don't have any real experience here. > > If you're using synthetic, the service interval is perfectly fine. I trust > you're not a sad bastard who uses the car to do 400 metre trips rather than > waliking ? That makes a big difference -esp to the engines with the 'breather > problem'.. > No, once again you are wrong. Wrong as could be. 10,000 miles is only an appropriate change interval if all you ever drive is highway miles. But under stop and go, short trips or any of the other myriad of reasons that would qualify as "severe duty" the change intervals are reduced greatly. This engine has a small crankcase capacity. Only a bit more than 4 US quarts as I recall. It is cheap insurance to long engine life to change the oil with full synthetic at 5k mile intervals *unless* you are using the car for long highway trips exclusively. > Graham > > > btw - stuff posted here suggests that *oil filter* changes on a slightly more > regular basis will actually make the oil itself perform better ! > > Seeing that a filter costs next to nothing.... you may wish to change that at > 5km intervals and simply top-up the oil. The filter costs ~ 5 bucks and you'll have to replace almost a quart of oil. I can buy Mobil 1 fully synthetic oil for $4 a quart. I would not waste my time and money replacing just the filter and adding new oil to old just to save $12. Do the whole oil change for ~ $21-25 every 5k miles or so and you will never be plagued by engine sludge woes. -Fred W

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