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Old 12-03-2009, 12:23 PM
gmercoleza gmercoleza is offline
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Originally Posted by Graplr View Post
I had my wife's 98 Avalon's oil sent out to Blackstone when using M1 5w30 Synthetic at around 5500 miles. They recommended a 5k change so I switched back to dino M1 5w30 and am shortening the interval to 4k. The large extra cost for syn didn't seem worth it to me if I couldn't run any longer OCIs. I had the same logic in my mind when switching the Avalon over to syn but it seems her car can't do 10k OCI.
Interesting, and thanks for sharing. So maybe I'll stick to my current 5K interval with dino? The only way to be sure would be to send a sample in to Blackstone at 5K and see what they say...
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