I called to schedule the first oil change in the Outtie and the service tech says to me "I'm sure you're aware, but we only use what Mitsubishi tells us to use on the new Outlanders, which is Mobil 5000 Synthetic oil".
I know there was a thread about switching to Synthetic, but did anybody else's dealer give them the same spiel about Mitsu stating to only use synthetic oil?

I told him i wasn't aware of that, but was planning to switch over to synthetic anyways. Since my first 3 oil changes are free I'm not worried about the price jump, but this was news to me.

 

Ummm... Mobil 5000 isn't synthetic...it's standard dino oil.

Go somewhere else. Your dealer is

1. Incompetent
2. A Fraud
3. All the Above

I'd probably go so far as to report it to Mitsubishi

 

I'll have to check into what they actually use. If it's not synthetic and they try to charge for synthetic i'll raise a big ruckus for sure. Thanx for the info.

 

I'd ask to see the bulletin requiring synthetic as well. I'm sure we'd all like to know

 

Nothing from my dealer either....they just recommended standard dino oil....though I have switched to synthetic.

 

Synthetic is better than conventional, you should switch to it anyways.

For the first 500-1000 miles you should use conventional.

 

Sounds likie they put in regular oil and billed for syntehic.

 

The appt is scheduled fortonight so i'll have to check on the type they use. The guy said "we only use what Mitsubishi recommends which is Mobil 5000 synthetic". He may have mispoke and only said synthetic because the Mobil 5000 lasts longer between oil changes.

What are your dealers charging for synthetic oil changes? I'd like to compare.

 

AFAIK, what Mitsubishi recommends is 5W20, but doesn't say whether synthetic or not. IMO, If I had to change it every 3500mi, I'll go conventional, because basically I feel like it's wasting money since at 3500mi that oil still look like it's clean. Although there's no debate synthetic is better than conventional, but what I'm saying is conventional Mobil is more than enough for the 3500 mi oil changes.

 

The reason it's called Mobil 5000 is that Mobil says it's good for 5000 miles.

I agree with rcpax. If you're changing every 3 months and 3000-5000 miles...then conventional is more good enough