warranty ending and synthetic oil

[adrenalin_rush]

hey

1. my warranty is ending in 5000 kms and the 2 tsb's i'm thinking about are the tailgate reinforcement and the rear leaf springs........i can't notice anything 'obviously' wrong with either........are there any 'little' signs that i can check before it goes in.....probably more with the leaf springs

2. once the warranty is over i wanna switch to synthetic........is there any one kind that everyone uses in taco's or are all the major brands pretty good?...........do many people run semi-synthetic with good results?

2006 Tacoma Double Cab TRD.........love this truck!

thanks

[tacomaoffroad]

synthetic blends r crap. they barely have any synthetic oil in them. i read it was like 5% is synthetic and the rest is dyno. if u wanna run synthetic. the only thing to go with is mobil 1 or german castrol syntec. if u wanna get expensive amsoil is excellent. but i think its overkill. i have read great things about mobil 1, so thats what i use.

[Janster]

Go full synthetic or don't go synthetic at all.

Many different brands are good....I run Mobile 1. I also run Amsoil in other things as well as Redline too.

[kcjay]

Pardon my newbness...but why wait until after the warranty to switch to synthetic? Does changing the oil type have implications on the warranty?

[adrenalin_rush]

yeah i was thinking full synthetic also, but didn't realize how crappy semi-synthetic is........good to know


no it doesn't have any warranty implications that i know of........i wanted (and should've) changed to synthetic earlier........

anybody have info on the rear leaf springs?......like how to know if i need the tsb done?