[Shop-talk] Synth and conventional oil question (Time sensitive question) and *free beer (or coffee)

[Bob Spidell]

Ford almost always uses their 5W-20 syn blend:

*https://tinyurl.com/yyyjo6vj*

My '08 Mustang GT used it and my '19 GT do to, inc. free dealership oil 
changes 'for life.'  For a long trek, I'd use the syn.

Bob

On 8/30/2019 5:17 PM, eric--- via Shop-talk wrote:
> My 2015 Explorer and me are in Phoenix, AZ* for a another month. I wanted to get an oil change prior to returning to NJ.
>
> Here is the problem. Ford states that it uses a 'synthetic blend' oil. I don't know what the dealer used last, as all my records are still in NJ and it was under a free dealership oil change when I did the last one. (Normally I do my own.)
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> The place I can get the oil changed at does either full synthetic or full conventional oil.
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> Since I'll be putting another 500 miles on the truck out here, before I trek another 3000 miles across the country, what oil should I use? I don't know if it even makes a difference. But there is extreme heat out here (but it's cooling off now.)
>
> I'm having the shop do this Sunday so I need to make a decision soon.
>
> *BTW, any Phoenix shop-talkers want to get together for a beer/coffee this weekend? I'm buying!
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Sent from my Commodore 64 on a 2400 Baud Modem.
> Tech Viper
> "Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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>
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