Originally Posted by billt460
Originally Posted by tojo1968
Sounds like a good idea. I will start doing my own after this.
Then you should do it NOW. Get that oil out of there, and put in the correct weight oil. What's it going to cost? $40.00 with a filter, and a half hour of your time, if that. Less than a tank of gas. That seems like a small price to pay for the peace of mind you are seeking.
The thing is, the person who has to be convinced about this is you. It bothers you they put the wrong oil in your car. (For the record it would bother me too). A hundred guys telling you on an Internet forum you'll be fine, isn't going to change your mind. What will is to change your oil.
Mechanically it could be argued for 20 pages that it may or may not be necessary. But the fact is for YOUR peace of mind it IS necessary. So I would just do it and be done with it. As I've said before, there are a lot of things in this world worth losing sleep over. Oil isn't one of them. And it doesn't matter in the least what someone else thinks. Only what YOU think.
If people lose sleep over what oil is in their engine for a few months, they have other issues to deal with. It's not like they filled it with olive oil. I see plenty of people here that change the oil every 3,000 miles and say they will drive their car over 300,000 miles, but at 50,000 miles some jerk t-bones you and the car is totalled.