You have it reversed. 10w30 for summer and 5w30 for winter.
That said, there's not much difference in the summer between 5w30 and
10w30. All I noticed was the idle oil pressure is slightly lower when
warmed up with the 5w30. Especially with synthetics, I'd run 5w30 year
round.
M.B.
On 2/13/2011 11:19 AM, jdbear@shaw.ca wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> Been awhile since I posted but I still check the DML everyday.
> I have a 97, Dak 318 and have used Mobil One full synthetic 10w30 since I turned 5000 kilometers,
> I now just turned 117,000 kilometers and was wondering if it would be OK to use the same oil but a 5w50 for the summer,
> I’ll still use the 10w30 for the winter.
>
> TIA
> ~Jay
>
>
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