Thread: Engine failure due to lack of oil changes with Synthetic
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Old 03-30-2003, 02:10 PM
hbofinger hbofinger is offline
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waybomb - you are an amazingly lucky person, I think.

I inherited my dad's 1979 Volvo 240D when I was a kid.

I let the oil go for 7k miles.

Seized the cam (as I mentioned earlier). The techies at Marten's Volvo of Washington said: "Yup, skipped the oil change, didn't you? Also snapped the timing belt when it froze, didn't it?"

Fortunately, the head could be remachined.

Later I was told that these Vovlo engines are built to last almost forever, PROVIDED that you do that Castrol thing religously and regularily...
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