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

[stan]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 09:25:02PM -0700, Shop Talk List wrote:
> Oh, forgot to mention, full syn /might/ leak a little more than dino or
> semi-syn, so you might want to check it occasionally and carry a quart of
> whatever the oil change place put in.
> Bob
> 
Might be hard to do. Most of the oil change places use oil from 55 Gal. drums, and
probably do not have quarts.

> On 8/30/2019 9:09 PM, Bob Spidell via Shop-talk wrote:
> > 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.)
> > > 
> > > The place I can get the oil changed at does either full synthetic or full conventional oil.
> > > 
> > > 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
> > > -Who is John Galt?
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 

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