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ok so i have a 2007 cadillac escalade with 215,000 miles on it. It has the factory 6.2L engine. for all of its life ive been filling with synthetic 5w30 when i goto the dealer. this time the guy asked what i wanted and i said synthetic but then he went on break and i guess the other guy followed the computer and apparently it said conventional/reg 5w30 was fine? i thought gm dealers/cadillac dealers always tried to push the 5w30 dexos but thats besides the point. so i have read many threads and it seems like conventional and synthetic perform basically the same and the only reason to run synthetic is for longer oci's. I never really cared for higher OCI's, i just follow the OLM. However I just want to ensure that this conventional fill wont affect anything? like i also heard that if you run conventional all the time then switch to synthetic late in the vehicles life you can run into leak issues. my truck is pretty high mileage so i just wanna ensure that its okay for this oil change to be with the reg 5w30 even tho ive ran synthetic all its life. the main thing that bums me out is that its gonna start getting cold here as cold as -40fahrenheit and i kinda wanted the synthetic for better cold startups, not sure if there will be a big diff between conventional and that for cold temps. i expect the temps to be between -4f and -22f mostly this winter and could get colder to -40 for a day or 2
so my main question is, should i drain the conventional asap and fill some store bought 5w30 or is it fine to keep the reg 5w30 for this oil interval even tho my truck is high mileage and always ran synthetic. i just dont want any problems like leaks or other problems etc
btw i dont even know what oil they ran, it just says reg 5w30 but its a cadillac/gm dealerhsip any ideas? seems to be from the pump machine rather then jugs
thanks!
so my main question is, should i drain the conventional asap and fill some store bought 5w30 or is it fine to keep the reg 5w30 for this oil interval even tho my truck is high mileage and always ran synthetic. i just dont want any problems like leaks or other problems etc
btw i dont even know what oil they ran, it just says reg 5w30 but its a cadillac/gm dealerhsip any ideas? seems to be from the pump machine rather then jugs
thanks!