In a message dated 6/7/2005 8:04:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, RSANTER@aol.com writes: > well shortly after getting the car, Robert (my friend) changed the oil. > immediatly the car started to smoke and burn oil. no amount of STP or other > additived would do a thing to change it. Well, I'll bet the whole issue could've been avoided if he'd thought to replace the "old" oil with the correct *equivalent*--ie, 90-wt instead of the 30-wt he probably used....