Originally posted by ODC:
Originally posted by infratl:
i'm thinking of switching as well, but i'm kinda scared about the oil leak thing. i have a 98 Tour with 97K miles on it. at about every 3K miles from when it was bought it was taken to Jiffy Lube to get oil and filter changes.

would u say it's safe for me to switch to synthetic? if not, what brand of standard oil would u recommend?



You have nothing to lose ... if it starts leaking then you just have to drain and fill back up with dino.

I use Mobil1 5w/30





The theory is that the synthetic oil would clean out the crud in the leaks, and switching back wouldn't fix that.

However, I'm convinced that the theory is [censored]. I'm about to switch an old M-B 190E to Mobil 1, even though it burns/leaks a little bit already.

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