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What happens if you use 5w-40 instead the recommended 5w-30?

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 ∙ 14y ago
Updated: 10/21/2022

What will happen? Who knows. Maybe nothing bad and maybe premature engine wear. My question is why would you want to deviate from what the manufacture recommends? What benefit can you gain? Use exactly what the people who built that engine tell you to use.

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