When I switched my wife's car to synthetic @45000, her car started to leak
like a sieve....the dealer fixed it under warranty.... um....I
think....better go check it again, you know how those dealers are!
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Bobby Nicks
Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 2:42 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: Problems with Synthetic Oil
Johnny Z wrote:
>
> Found this post in the DML archives, has anyone experienced this problem
> with their 97+ Daks after switching from Dino to Synthetic Oil. Johnny
> 97 Dak 4x4
>
> >DML: Oil Mobil 1
> >Gary Ludwick (gludwick@csi.com)
> >Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:18:06 -0400
> >.
> >Leaking around seals is a well known problem >with synthetic
> oil...problem is that the seals - >especially from a few years back -
> were not >formulated to work with synthetics.
> >M Benz warned all owners of cars built prior to >97 not to use
> synthetic for this very reason. >Also seems more likely to happen when
> owner >uses dino oil for a while, then switches to >synthetic.
> >Gary
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