Q: Oil leak

asked by on October 01, 2016

My car is leaking oil not a lot but it still leaks I use 10W30 synthetic oil in my car if I were to switch to conventional oil would it still leak as bad

My car has 140000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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