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On 2/11/2004 3:27 PM, david.clement@verizon.net wrote:
| A few comments;
| 1. Cold weather is much tougher on the oil than warm weather so I am not
| suprised that the 15w50 looks better after 6k miles of summer driving
than the
| 10w30 does after 4.5k of winter miles.
| 2. Dodge recomends 5w30 for ambient temps from below freezing up to
100 degrees
| and I forget the lower limit for 10w30 but I believe it's around
freezing to
| over 100. For most people 5w30 would be the prefered oil year round.
| 3. The synthetic blends are just that a blend and from what I have
read the
| sythetic portion is 1/3 or less. Seems to me if you want to use a
blend just
| dump one or two qts of synthetic in with your dino oil at oil change
time and
| save some money.
|
| FWIW, I run 10w30 in the summer and 5w30 in the winter.
Did that on my '99. Manual said 10w30, I ran that in the summer and
5w30 in the cold. The '03 takes 5W30 year-round per the book, and I
switched to Mobil 1 in it, so I just stick w/ that.
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