Originally Posted by
chrisa3
Ive got some silkolene 10w50 in the garage from my subaru days. I switched from 10w40 semi in my impreza and it started to use oil and was never the same. My local subaru indie said it was due to the synthetic glazing up the bores. As my cossie isnt using oil and no smoke so far, I just think if it aint broke leave it well alone

it will use a wee bit of oil there ment to it takes a while to unless you give it a good bit off stick mine has used 2.5lt of oil in 8000 miles its due a change now