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Originally Posted by antonino
It seems like the only consensus is the use of synthetic oil vs. mineral. I also have a 78 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce and have and continue to use mineral oil on the unwavering advise of many who own these cars...I know the 300CE is a totally different animal...but I have always believed in mineral oil and change religiously every 3000K miles...can someone give me a sound reason to change to a synthetic for the Benz?
Antonino
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Where do you live and what kind of driving do you do? For normal use and short change intervals, I'm sure mineral oil is fine. For severe operating conditions or long change intervals, I'd probably want some of the benefits of synthetic.
FWIW my 300E has been run on synthetic and 7500-10,000 mile change intervals since new, and it has 278k miles on the original motor. OTOH, Larry Bible runs his 300E on dino with 3000 mile change intervals, and he has something like 300k on his.
Oh, and I run 0W40 year round. Good stuff.