Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site digi-g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!digi-g!dan From: dan@digi-g.UUCP (Dan Messinger) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: oil query Message-ID: <283@digi-g.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 09:15:14 EDT Article-I.D.: digi-g.283 Posted: Tue Oct 9 09:15:14 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 07:10:57 EDT References: <658@ihuxa.UUCP> <245@digi-g.UUCP> <> Reply-To: dan@digi-g.UUCP (dan) Organization: DigiGraphic Systems Corp., Mpls. MN Lines: 10 In article <> agz@pucc-k (Andrew Banta) writes: >About the owner's manual that says to use single-viscosity oil: You didn't >say, but do you own a VW, or any other air-cooled car? If so, yes! Use >single viscosity oil. NO multi-viscosity oil has been made to put up with >the heat an air cooled engine can put out. There was a reason for them to >say that. The vehicle in question is a full size Chevy Blazer. Looking at my manual again, I see that I was not entirely correct. It recommends single viscosity oil for summer, but multi-viscosity for winter.