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Re: Oil Questions
Posted by Stephen Goldberger - http://saabnet.com/tsn/forms/ (more from Stephen Goldberger - http://saabnet.com/tsn/forms/) on Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:33:14
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00

All this and more was discussed at great length in NINES #260. The short
answer is Mobil 1 0W40 is the current Factory Oil and you won't go wrong
using it. The factory oil in your 2002 9-3 was 'a similar, but not the
same' 0W40 fully synthetic oil. You should use a full synthetic meeting
ACEA A3/B3 specifications. This is Saab's current recommendation and this
is what they use at the factory.

Change intervals are a wild guess unless you have either on-board oil
monitoring, as the 9-3 Sport Sedan has, or you embark on a program of
periodic oil analysis ***and*** your driving conditions are uniform across
the months and years.

Every 5000 miles fits in well with the Saab paid service of every 10,000
miles, but you'd need to take them your own oil. Hopefully you have a
non-Saab at home where you can use the supplied 5W30 Saab Label oil.

Stephen Goldberger, Editor and Publisher
NINES, the magazine of the SAAB Club of North America
vist our web site at http://www.saabclub.com


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