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Re: Perhaps silly, but Synthetic Oil weight correlate exactly to convention oil weights ?
I think it was FJ <sec4251@remove the remove yahoo.com> who stated:
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>Perhaps silly, but Synthetic Oil weight correlate exactly to
>convention oil weights ?[/color]
No silly questions, except unasked ones.
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>I am coming up to the first oil change - 5K.
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>Obviously Toyota put the original oil in the crackcase and I did not.
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>Per my manual it reads 5W-30 for oil for the 2006 4runner.
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>I have purchased 5w 30 Mobil 1 and a Mobil 1 oil filter for the 5K -
>that would be the appropriate weight, should it not ?[/color]
Yes. I mean, yes it is the appropriate weight; synth weight correlates
to non-synth.
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>Separately, the shop that will do the oil change - I would do the oil
>change myself, but it would probably look better for warranty purposes
>to have a nice receipt showing that a quality shop did that very oil
>change.
>That shop manager mentioned that he did not see a need to futz with
>the brakes at teh 5K mark.
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>Would there likely be a pointless economy error in not having the
>brakes checked, even if they do not need it, in terms of the warranty
>compliance (again, even though the shop manager says that the brakes
>are fine) ?[/color]
No warranty problem, no. Especially if the shop manager says they're
fine.
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