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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 06:13 AM
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Synthetic goin back to Regular Oil?

Good Or Bad? What kind of Oil Product should i use?
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 06:24 AM
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If you switched from regular to synthetic, you should go synthetic all the way as long as u own your car. The cons, your engine will go bad.
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 06:29 AM
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you can never go back to regular oil from synthetic...whats the reason you are trying to change back to regular??
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by sharkm87
you can never go back to regular oil from synthetic...whats the reason you are trying to change back to regular??
Goin' Turbo pretty soon=)RRM said that i have to ditch the Synthetic cause the stock turbo is not suppose to use syn, they recommended goin back to dino. Brian from RRM said that they can put 20w 30 but im still not sure though with that oil ratio
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 08:19 AM
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? It's not the stock turbo that's the problem, it's the stock oil pump. I thought they used 15w50 or something along those lines. You can go back to dino oil, I did it recently and it's fine. Depending on who you ask you'll get a different response, even among mechanics and oil manufacturers.
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 09:04 AM
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Swap back with out any worries.
Check out
bobistheoilguy.com
You should pick up a lot of info there.
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 09:26 AM
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I'm doing the same going from syn back to dino for future turbo. I was told do two oil changes with a syn blend and then before the 3rd oil change run a cleaner through your oil and then change with the dino and you should be good...we'll see how it goes
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 09:45 AM
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Well, I'll just add I'm doing the exact same! Not for turbo or anything, but I feel I'm wasting the extra $3/4 on each quart that I don't need to. I'm doing two 3k miles runs on semi-blend, then using dino all the way. BTW, I use Castrol 5w 30...
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 10:32 AM
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you CAN go back to regular from synthetic... anything else is a myth. it will not damage your car or anything.
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 05:36 PM
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i just did this too on my last oil change because i knew i was going to buy the rrm kit. what i did was do an engine flush than put regular oil in it. engine flushes are recommended every 3 oil changes or 9k miles i believe.
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Old Jun 21, 2007 | 01:07 PM
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Yeah the synthetic is too thin, thats why they told you too switch. Just flush the engine.
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Old Jul 7, 2007 | 04:10 PM
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why would you go from convintional oil to synthetic oil and back to conventional oil. thats crazy. i would stay with synthetic oil. it doesnt break down as fast as conventional oil does and you dont have to change it as often. i use catrol synthetic 10w30 3 quarts and then add a quart of lucus sythetic stabilizing oil and that **** works wonders. i have 127,000 miles on my 2002 lancer es. i dont think my engine would still be running if i hadnt have changed it to synthetic.
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Old Jul 7, 2007 | 04:12 PM
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why would you go from convintional oil to synthetic oil and back to conventional oil. thats crazy. i would stay with synthetic oil. it doesnt break down as fast as conventional oil does and you dont have to change it as often. i use catrol synthetic 10w30 3 quarts and then add a quart of lucus sythetic stabilizing oil and that **** works wonders. i have 127,000 miles on my 2002 lancer es. i dont think my engine would still be running if i hadnt have changed it to synthetic.
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Old Jul 7, 2007 | 05:13 PM
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This is America you can do anything you want.
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