Synthetic or Non Synthetic? What do the dealers usually use?

houkouonchi

I guess you missed where the part where I said this is a special case where they were dealing with an oil leak (cracked upper oil pan) where they had to replace the oil as part of the repair. This was not a regular oil change. Everytime I have ever gone in for an oil changes its been ester oil and I have been charged as such. There was no charge for this because it was all warranty work but they did not use ester oil like I normally would have.

Basically the next day after warranty repair I see that my oil is super low so I posted this thread to try to figure out what I should do to get the oil level to a normal level because I had no clue what they put in. It just said 5w30 which means I knew it wasn't Ester...

And to answer your other question when I have a Nismo oil cooler which was installed *by this dealer* and the oil cooler was only installed because it was recommended *by this dealer* and the crack at the oil pan was where the oil cooler connected to the oil pan and they even had to order parts for the cooler connector then yes I expect the oil put in the car *by this dealer* to be the proper amount.

I don't think that is unreasonable. Also it was way low.. 1.5qt. They obviously did not even fill it to 5.125 qts or the car is burning oil like crazy (to burn through 1+ qt in a 200 miles).

Before doing anything with the oil at this point I am first just going to verify it is not burning through its oil.