How long between oil changes for Volvo s60 Turbo?

James schrieb:

I had the V70 T5 (2001) and I changed every 20'000km. Castrol SLX (Fully synthetic).

If you have a reasonable driving profile you can use the oil for 30K or

Your welcome,

Joerg

Are you kidding me? It would be mud by 30,000 KM.

So it was dirty thats good next time it will be better but if its clean start worrying because its not working .GOOD OIL cleans the grotty gunk out. When you first use Synthetic it cleans up big time so much so I changed filters at 3000 klm then every 7000 klm.

Maybe I'm too fussy, too meticulous, but the ideo of "grotty gunk" coonstantly circulating in my engine, lubricating my bearings under great stress and pressure, causes me chills.

That crap is NOT as good for the engine (i.e. bearings) as is clean oil.

It's that simple.

Change often.

I hear you, V-man.

'Changing the oil frequently is the single most important thing you can do for your car', is what my father taught me when I was a mere lad.

I have used Mobil synthetic in my '95 850T ever since it was new, changing both oil and filter every 5000 km.

People tell me, 'With the high-quality modern oil nowadays, you're just throwing money away!'

Hei -- I can afford it, and for the peace of mind it gives me, the price is cheap.

cheers,

Henry

oil co's recommend you change your oil every 500 miles...

OK, Mr Bean, I'll tell you what. Let's get together. You bring your eleven-year-old Volvo with its original engine and I'll bring mine. We'll go to a garage and have an expert mechanic take the engines apart, in order to measure the degree of wear on such things as bearings, cylinder walls, etc. The loser pays all costs for both parties. What do you say?

cheers,

Henry

well, only if i can bring my 1993 940t w/over 275,000 trouble free miles on it...oil changes every 10 - 20k miles....

"People tell me, 'With the high-quality modern oil nowadays, you're just throwing money away!"

throwing $ is your business...throwing oil away when we are at war over it is a bit troublesome....at least imho......

What do you mean, 'we'?

cheers,

Henry

are you muslam?

arhhhhhh Castrol "Synthetic oil" I thought you meant real synthetic oil .Castrol won a case where it was said it was such highly modified dinosaur our it was no longer organic .WELL I mean REAL synthetic oil not Castrol err ummmmm oil.Real Synthetic oil is not made the same way as Castrol oil is .I have a long memory from the days when my choice of Oil was paramount to business so I still wont use Shell or Castrol oil,at least Shell is real synthetic .

BY THE WAY synthetic oil was developed by the nazis to enable jet engines to work with in the extreme temperatures the reach and the nazis found normal oils broke down .Now that was during the war so imagine how much better oil,particularly "REAL synthetic" oil is today .

Your information is out of date. There has been lots of discussion about the use of Group III base oils in Mobil-1 these days as well. Join

The vast majority of readily available synthetic oils in the US use at least some Group III as part of their base oils. Yes, Castrol was one of the first, but so what.

There is little evidence that starting with natural gas (the origin of Group IV base oils) or starting with natural oil (the origin of Group III base oils) is in and of itself the final determinant of the final lubricating oil's quality.

John

There are some lubricating oils being developed which start out life as a vegetable oil like soybean, etc. Of course nothing is impact free. It takes energy to grow soybeans!

John

"Of course nothing is impact free"

...true...its the old "energy in, energy out equation" ..

start out life as