found a great dealer, chrysler, after getting seriously fleeced by
the local mechanics, tried to give them business and boy did
they give me the business. it's so bad it's funny. i'll spare you the details,
like doing the same repairs twice! since on their dirty bulletin board
they are selling 50 bullet drum magazines, i decided not to make
a big confrontation, bit of discretion here with heavy caliber guns u know

anyway this great chrysler dealer, fabulous, actually inspected
my vehicle, more than 10 year old minivan VOYAGER
and found not a thing wrong with it, nothing, not even a burned
out bulb, there was one burned bulb in the dash, and also
honored some discount coupons, i still can't believe my luck
i had already told them to leave the stickers on since they were
good for another two months and i am not going to get away
from a dealer, a big dealer, with a 10+ old minivan for the
state inspection. i felt for sure it was going to be a failure,
just how big a failure could i afford was the question.
this is a rare first time i have ever passed an inspection without repairs
usually it's gift time for the auto industry and i accept that.

in any case, i noticed that i did not use oil in 2000 miles
before i was using what, maybe 1.5 quarts in 2000 miles
which is not bad at all for car that has about 200,000 miles

but no oil usage
and i even let the dipstick hang out on this hard to read dipstick
leave it to chrysler to make even reading the dipstick an adventure

the dealer is using a semi-synthetic conoco 5W-30
which technically i would prefer for the V6 3.0 10W-30 regular oil
always afraid the synthetics may do in the seals
but something is working better
would you not say - any big ideas on this?

now i did do the you know who oil analysis, blackstone labs
and they said the oil i had been using was seemingly
5W-30, this was before going to the dealer.
the report was pretty good although when i showed it to
mechanics they get irritated with all the chemistry.
probably info overflow. but i did some chemistry so it's cool.

now i am thinking, is it possible that my local mechanics
did me wrong when i was trying to just be nice
they really put in 10W-30 and since they lied to me about
other things, probably lied to me about the oil?
or maybe a combo of things. i put in some quarts of cheapo
walmart's oil, forgive me, and that reprocessed canadian oil
might really be closer 5W-10 after reprocessing?

in any case, this dealer has a nice TV room and free coffee and i found
him on the click and clack brothers that everybody loves to hate
here but they really helped me with their web site and advice
yes they make mistakes, but the mistakes are honest ones