cdiddy

Is this guy full of crap?

conekiller

First service is at 5K, and by then the motor is well broken in and rings have settled, etc. You're fine to switch to full syn by then. I have in my last three vehicles with no ill effects.

Gernby

iTrader: (1)

I switched to Mobil1 at 5K, but I probably accellerated the break-in process by driving it hard during the 1st 5K miles.

Gtidan

AS many of you already know most Mercedes come from the factory with Mobil 1, 0-40 installed. With my car it took almost 15,000 miles of driving before the rings settled in and it quit burning oil. From 15,000 on and with change interval of 10,000 miles the car did not burn a drop of oil. I plan of switching to Mobil 1 but not until at least 10,000 miles to give the motor plenty of break in time.

conekiller

Porsches and Corvettes also ship w/M1 from the factory, among others. M1 is all I've used.

808is250

when i had my g35 they said not to switch to synthetic till after you hit 12000 miles. so that the seals properly break in. but never kept the car to hit that millage.

omgitsroy

iTrader: (1)

if not synthtic then what would you use??? i would just go with fully syn... a new motor .. nice maintinence

ecr527

I switched to synthetic oil after 2,000 miles in my last car. I still have it, and she still runs like a champ.

sincityIS

salesmen are stupid.

lobuxracer

iTrader: (2)

Some are. I make my living doing sales, but I can't afford to be stupid at what I do since I'm also SE and first level support.

That said, I haven't met a car sales guy who knows more about cars than I do.

Gtidan

You need to meet Anthony Park at Newport Lexus than. Never met a guy who knew more about what he's selling then this guy. As you can tell by my many posts in a very short time I live on the computer and I've spent hours checking out some of the things he told me about my Lexus. All were true.

lobuxracer

iTrader: (2)

Has he been building street and competition engines for the last 25 years? The hard questions I ask usually get referred back to someone in an engineering department, or they give me the usual "that's proprietary information" response.

I'm pretty sure he's got the marketing material down quite well. If you can't do that you shouldn't be in sales.

I have yet to meet a car sales guy who's been inside an engine, much less done port work, knows how to run a lathe or a mill, or weld proficiently. But that's just me. Anthony might be that one guy who does.

Gtidan

Careful.

I've read some pretty stupid questions from some here or were they just to lazy to read their manual's or use a spell checker?

That said one does find a tidbit of useful information every now and than and that's the reason I read it often. The rest of the time it's just fun to chat...

Gtidan

I'm pretty sure he's got the marketing material down quite well. If you can't do that you shouldn't be in sales.
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That he does, that he does. As to the rest I have no clue and don't care in this case. I just want someone who knows his product.

l1tech

I have personally rebuilt hundreds of engines ranging from Chevys to Mercedes and even a Ferrari motor once and have used synthetic oil in all of them with absolutely no ill effects. IMO it's all urban legend and until Mythbusters tests this one and says that synthetic oil actually hurts a new engine I will continue using it in all of my new and rebuilt engines.