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Originally Posted by pawoSD
My toyota had kindof a reddish tint like that on the upper end when I got it, it was run on an unknown dino oil....after a couple changes on Mobil 1 it was going away.....must be something in the oil....makes a red varnish.
I hope that cheap no-name looking oil filter has been replaced with a nice German one!   |
I don't use anything other than Bosch. For < $4/each its a no-brainer...
The women (wait what?)....did practically no maintenance on this car for what looks like a good 30k+ miles. I think the oil was at least 9k miles old when I got it. You could fit Everest through the gaps in the spark plugs...that's how old they were...
Looks like I got leaky stem seals on this car too....I'm debating whether I should first swap the oil to a correct one (I'm currently running 20-50) or just do the stem seal repair on it then change oil? Not as much a price issue as a time issue....But wasting buying the oil to have it burn up is a price issue. Any thoughts? IIRC it took me like 3-4hours to do the valve stem seals on my 300TE a year or two back.