03-03-2010, 08:45 PM
If your oil leaks, it will only keep going longer until the parts seize. What's that... an extra mile?
You can coke up synthetic oil too with heat - it just takes more of it, and no/low lube will certainly
qualify as a high heat situation.
I'd think it cheaper insurance to go with a blend and still be checking and changing every 3k.
Squeezing 10,000 miles out of an oil change on a 16 year old engine is asking a lot. And it
doesn't make sense vs the consequences, when the extra two oil changes cost you $50 vs.
a new engine or a re-ring (which... while you're in there, might as well do x, y, and z.)
You can coke up synthetic oil too with heat - it just takes more of it, and no/low lube will certainly
qualify as a high heat situation.
I'd think it cheaper insurance to go with a blend and still be checking and changing every 3k.
Squeezing 10,000 miles out of an oil change on a 16 year old engine is asking a lot. And it
doesn't make sense vs the consequences, when the extra two oil changes cost you $50 vs.
a new engine or a re-ring (which... while you're in there, might as well do x, y, and z.)