Jay, I am not so sure that synthetic oil is cost effective here. I use synthetic in my turbo passat because it runs hotter than the vanagon and you can smell how it burns the oil. To me the best thing you can do for the vanagon is change the oil every 3k with what ever oil works best and that will be expensive if you run synthetic. gary ate: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 06:57:51 -0400 From: Jay Brown <badkarma@TTLC.NET> Subject: Switching to synthetic oil? I am thinking about switching over to a full Synthetic (Castrol Syntech 5W-50) from regular dino oil (Castrol GTX 20W-50) in my '85 Westfalia. Are there any special precautions I should take when making the switch? The van doesn't currently leak any oil and I haven't had any oil pressure troubles, I would just like the extra protection that the full synthetic claims to offer. Thanks in advance. Jay Brown '85 Westfalia '72 Riviera
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