Synthetic Oil versus Regular
My new to me toad is a 2008 Nissan Versa with 115,000 miles. I recently changed oil for the first time and learned that the high mileage oil I put in was synthetic and not regular as had been used by...
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I once read a good analogy about standard vs synthetic oil... imagine your oil as a bunch of steel balls making one surface easily ride along the other. Now think of those balls as being similar but of slightly different sizes (standard oil) whereas another system has all the balls the same size (synth). Makes sense to me... but I'm just an internet reader, not an engineer.
