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Old 03-20-2013, 11:56 AM
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so i just bought my jeep it has 193k jw if it would be alright to switch over to synthetic at that mileage? thanks!
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Here we go again! Won't hurt anything, might leak a little more
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so i just bought my jeep it has 193k jw if it would be alright to switch over to synthetic at that mileage? thanks!
You can start with a semi synthetic first if you want to be cautious.
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It's fine. IF it leaks - a big IF then:

Find leak -> fix leak -> done
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so i just bought my jeep it has 193k jw if it would be alright to switch over to synthetic at that mileage? thanks!
Enough reading here to keep u busy until your next oil change.

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_rn=...w=1280&bih=584
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