Yea, I usually don’t worry about it. When I had my diesel, I was more concerned. In older cars, I was never convinced synthetic was really necessary. This BMW always had Mobil 1 – according to the records/receipts. So, I thought I would stick with it. The only reason I even thought about it was because I wondered if I should change it myself. With the Schaeffer oil it dropped the price of the oil change down almost $15 and at that point, it cost about the same as I would spend buying oil and filter. So, it was a no brainer at that point.
Don Snook From: Curt Raymond [mailto:curtlud...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 2:53 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Donald Snook <d...@snooklawllc.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] uh oh Oil Thread I've given up on worrying about oil, if it meets a reasonably current specification I use it and don't worry about it. Our '05 VW Golf TDI REQUIRES a specific spec of oil which is relatively hard to find. Valvoline makes the only oil that meets the spec that you can find at most FLAPS. I started using it in the pickup because the Valvoline place is easier to get into than the Mobil place... Pickup doesn't seem to care. Wait 5000 miles and pull a sample for analysis, then you'll really know whats going on in there... -Curt ________________________________ From: Donald Snook via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> Cc: Donald Snook <d...@snooklawllc.com<mailto:d...@snooklawllc.com>> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 3:47 PM Subject: [MBZ] uh oh Oil Thread I had to get my oil changed on my BMW. There is a small shop down the street from my office and I know the Manager. His wife is a lawyer and he had a good reputation. He has worked on all of my cars and always treated me well. So, he has done the last several oil changes on both my cars and my wife's SUV. My car takes 7.5-8 qts. I had previously priced the 5 qt jugs of Mobil 1 to try to decide if it was worth it to do it myself. Once I buy two of the 5 qt jugs and a filter, it hardly saves me any money to do it myself. I decided to have him do it yesterday. I asked if there was a cheaper Full Synthetic oil that I could use. He told me uses Schaeffer oil. His job sells the oil and the supplements so I was still wondering about it. He told me he uses exclusively in his farm tractors. He has a farm and has two tractors that cost $300,000 each and he said he trusts the Schaeffer oil to use in them. I decided to try it. So, does anybody have any experience with this oil? This is the oil http://www.schaefferoil.com/9003d-full-synthetic.html This meets the newest API designation of SN. My BMW is a 1999. I'm assuming whatever designation was required then, this new stuff exceeds it. Don Snook _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com<http://www.okiebenz.com/> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
