Recent content by ru_bunky

Only two cold starts per day but it doesn't get very cold in Atlanta. I do sit in a bunch of stop and go traffic to and from work.

Looked in the garage and the oil was likely 10W-40 Castrol High Mileage.

oh yeah, sorry for the non-standard post title. I didn't know the mileage on the oil or the brand.

I posted a while back with high lead content and it has not entirely gone away. I'm know the oil sample tested here at least 5k miles on it. I found the drop in Moly to be surprising. Enjoy

BTW, I purchase a significant amount of gas in South Carolina on my business trips so it may not be just a Georgia thing for lead in the gas. I guess I'll stop buying gas from those stations that are about a week away from shutting their doors.

Thanks for all the responses. After checking my records, I found that the dealer did an oil change @ 111,000 as part of the 100,000 mile service. So, I put 7,600 miles on a non-synthetic. ouch. Here are my official records: 3/14/2004 95352 5W-30 dino 5/22/2004 99280 10W-30 Synthetic 11/27/2004...

Here's an interesting for y'all to take a look at. I've used synthetic for the last three oil changes but have used 'normal' oil at various times in the car's life. I intend to replace the current oil this weekend to do a test after 3,000 miles. I've noticed a trend among Subarus to have a...