They say that when it first came out, the full synthetics did cause seals to fail.� But has been reformulated for quite some time now to cause no damage to seals.

I've never had a problem, and I have nothing but old engines.

Anthony
'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)

--- On Wed, 4/29/09, Brenton Tait <BTait@INVESTEC.CO.ZA> wrote:
From: Brenton Tait <BTait@INVESTEC.CO.ZA>
Subject: Re: Oil Suggestions
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 4:20 PM

Jst a question.....does a synthetic oil damage any of your seals on the
engine? Just bought a Castrol 10w40 today so thinking of using that
.....any suggestions or feeling on that?

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B C Tait
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of David Clarkson
Sent: 29 April 2009 21:58
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Oil Suggestions

I looked for it there last tie to no avail and had to settle for 10w-40.

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Reinhardt <simon.reinhardt@MAC.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:59 am
Subject: Re: Oil Suggestions

I get it at Walmart. Best price I've seen, and it's in 5 quart jugs.

-Simon

On Apr 28, 2009, at 11:02 PM, Robert Stewart wrote:

> Where do people get the 15/50 from? Is it available at Walmart?
> Autozone? Advance Auto?
>

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