Crush ring and Castrol - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Jaak · 11-03-2009, 06:53 PM

A rebuild on a 3.2 is about $9,000 ... a few extra bucks for oil ... no issue ... I would rather spend a few extra bucks to protect the investment.

chitowndad · 11-03-2009, 07:04 PM

All right I'll stop acting like a cheap bastard! LOL

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Brucelee · 11-04-2009, 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by chitowndad

All right I'll stop acting like a cheap bastard! LOL

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Nothing wrong with wanting to save some dough. In the future, look for deals as you can find bargains on Castrol from time to time.

Good luck.

chitowndad · 11-06-2009, 05:56 PM

So I found a special on Castrol Synthetic at Pep Boys, 5 quarts and a filter for $27.99. Yeah!

cvhs18472 · 11-07-2009, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by chitowndad

So I found a special on Castrol Synthetic at Pep Boys, 5 quarts and a filter for $27.99. Yeah!

Deals like that are all over the place at one time or another and sometimes even cheaper. As I go through the Sunday paper I always look at the auto store ads and if I see what I need I will go and get as many as my wallet will allow at the time and build up a stock. I use the usually good filters for my other autos and come out ahead. I put on around 8K per year and change my oil twice per season. This s one way I have to keep the maintenance costs down. I also buy air filters, cabin air filters and oil filters 3 or 4 at a time off Ebay and save money on the cost and on shipping. Ed

chitowndad · 11-08-2009, 12:31 PM

So the last time I took my car in to have the oil changed at a local oil place which overfilled the car. Today I changed the oil myself and the bozo's that did it last time didn't replace the spring in the oil filter!

Now I know why I do it myself!

If I recall correctly, the spring is used as some form of a bypass, right?

-Steve

JTP · 11-08-2009, 01:41 PM

Here in Fairbanks Alaska, the local parts store has Castrol Syntec and Mobil 1 for $8.99/qt , some places as high as $9.99/qt . $6.99 doesn't seem too bad, you'll end up spending an extra $10 per oil change and that's a small price to pay for better protection as these cars are not cheap econoboxes (no pun intended) so you'll end up paying more for everything.

clickman · 11-08-2009, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by chitowndad

So the last time I took my car in to have the oil changed at a local oil place which overfilled the car. Today I changed the oil myself and the bozo's that did it last time didn't replace the spring in the oil filter!

Now I know why I do it myself!

If I recall correctly, the spring is used as some form of a bypass, right?

-Steve

What spring?