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Old 09-14-2008, 02:40 AM
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Our '96 has Mobil-1 5W-40 in it, primarily for easier starting during our annual visit to snow country. It gets changed once a year. This year's first oil analysis at about 4000 miles (by George Murphy) showed no significant deterioration -- I posted the numbers elsewhere in this forum. I'll repeat the analysis when I change the oil in a couple of months.

OTOH, this same car drove 248,000 miles on dino oil -- mostly Pennzoil, by the looks of the records, and suffered no apparent damage. The original owner had the dealer change the oil and filter every 7500 miles and this was continued through the first 200,000 miles. As the car was being driven more then, this amounted to four or five oil changes per year.

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