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10W-30 / 10W-40 motor oil comparison


Roadandguitarman
06-11-2006, 04:08 PM
When should you use 10W-30 motor oil and when should you use 10W-40 motor oil, in a passenger vehicle gasoline engine?

Also, would 10W-40 leak less than 10W-30, in the same engine?

2.2 Straight six
06-11-2006, 05:09 PM
your car's handbook should tell you exactly which oil to use.

TheSilentChamber
06-11-2006, 06:34 PM
Honestly you could use either and never know a differnce. The differnt weights corospond to what you should use for differnt tempatures, but those two are so close that it would pretty much never make a differnce.

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