Natural to Synthetic Oil, any complications? Options

[hurley97]

I've always used natural oil because thats what I assumed the previous owner used. I want to switch to synthetic but I've heard bad things could come from doing so after using natural for so many years.

I can't remember exactly what possible problems I was told could arise nor can I remember where I heard it but it had something to do with the deposits that form and casing leaks, etc.

Is this just a myth? I plan to just flush the system like I did when I switched weights, would that have any negative consequences?

[Silver94CelicaOw...]

Stef, it'll be fine. Like I said the other night, I switched right over to synthetic and its fine, I've been running over 2 years probably with synthetic, just a "cold turkey" changeover from standard to synthetic and it runs fine. However, I did learn to keep an eye more on the condition of the oil, since synthetic will help clean out your engine from the sludge of more primitive oils.

Heres a quick series of links I gathered just to show that theres no ill consequences of switching from standard to synthetic. Mobil reccomends flushing oil more frequently when you first change over, then after that you're fine.


LINKS-

http://www.mobiloil.com/USA-English/MotorO...to_Mobil_1.aspx

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46171

"Fact-
As long as the synthetic motor oil product and conventional motor oil product meet the viscosity and performance requirements outlined in the vehicle’s owner’s manual, you may interchange them with each other."

-QuakerState.com


Hopefully that helps.