Synthetic oil.....to late..???

Silver2gn4me · Post by **Silver2gn4me** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:05 pm

I am coming up on my first oil change as a new owner on my used 2000 ES. I ran Mobil 1 in my first 2gen and want to run it in this one. This one has ~53,000 miles. Is it too late to start using it???

Jason

threefortyduster · Post by **threefortyduster** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:22 pm

you can start using synthetic oil any time you want. the problem isnt the oil, its the fact that any build up thats holding your leaks back will be freed and any oil leaks you have will show. 53k is nothing.

Dodge00Neon · Post by **Dodge00Neon** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:02 am

You'll have no problems at all. My grandfathers truck had 100+k miles before the first time i filled it with synthetic.

Silver2gn4me · Post by **Silver2gn4me** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 11:36 pm

Thanks for the replies guys. I thought I would be OK, just wanted some more opinions...I hope I dont have any leaks!!

Jason

Dodge00Neon · Post by **Dodge00Neon** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:54 am

With only 53k I doubt you have any leaks. My car has 69k and the only leak I have is my drain plug. This is also b/c the stock one was striped out and the oversize one doesn't seal right.

EMO420 · Post by **EMO420** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:21 pm

Silver2gn4me wrote:Thanks for the replies guys. I thought I would be OK, just wanted some more opinions...I hope I dont have any leaks!!
Jason

only time you should NOT use synthetic is durring your breakin of your new car/ engine... and thats what about 500-1000mi...

mospaxreton · Post by **mospaxreton** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:16 am

Hate to bring this topic back, but instead of starting another topic... Well once you go Synthetic can you go back to regular oil?? If of course you choose to is it bad?

03sxt · Post by **03sxt** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 7:54 am

mospaxreton wrote:Hate to bring this topic back, but instead of starting another topic... Well once you go Synthetic can you go back to regular oil?? If of course you choose to is it bad?

Of course you can. You can do anything.

I, myself, would definitely NOT recommend it. My first car was a '90 Pontiac Sunbird that I had in 1996 with 120,000 miles on it and when I bought it I started running Mobil 1 in it... I was feeling cheap when I changed the oil once and bought conventional oil, non-synthetic, and man did that engine start knocking and rapping like a mofo. I'm sure with knocking comes some engine damage, but I dunno. This has only happened to me once and I got rid of the car about 2000 miles after I did the oil change... So, to sum it up, I'd say don't go back.