Re: Switching to Synthetic small probs

[TBerk16@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/23/98 7:41:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
vw_jetta_gli@yahoo.com writes:

> 
>  Switching to synthetic (if it didn't have it) isn't a bad idea. 
>  Remember, cars with high milege tend to leak went switched to
>  synthetic.  Everyone I know with a VW who switched to synthetic after
>  100k or so miles...all of a sudden had a few oil leaks appear. 
>  Synthetic tends to be thinner then regular oil thus some leaks that
>  were not there all of a sudden appear. 
<snip>
>  Sheldon
>  


I'd suggest using one of the semi-synthetics for a while before going full on
synth.  This helped me w/ my high mileage '81.

hth,
TBerk
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