I concur with Don as well. The deal with oil is there are so many different
opinions and justifications that it's hard to decide what to use. What I
tell people is to interview a hundred different people and listen to what
they use and why. Then decide for yourself what oil is best after weighing
all the options knowing full well you're right, but don't tell anyone that
you are. Personally, I run Amsoil after seeing people hitting over 300,000
on their rides and the engines still test with great compression. Even one
local has put a million miles on his semi and all he has ever done is oil
filter changes. He orders the test kits for $26 and sends them in for
analysis. He keeps getting good reports from the team at amsoil so he's
never changed the oil in his semi. After a million miles though, it's
probably had the oil changed just in replacing what is lost when changing
the filter.
One time I was road-tripping to Tennessee and I was running hot. I decided
to pull into a gas station and do an oil change - switching over to Mobil 1
synthetic. Doing that netted me a 10 degree temperature drop just from
changing the oil. Turns out my timing advanced on me and backing it off
later on that day corrected the heat issue and it ran cooler than at the
same setting before. This was around the time Katrina made landfall because
I drove through the rain on the way back home. That was the last great trip
I took in a VW. I drove 1000 miles straight through in Li'l Red my 74 Super
Beetle. I left Athens, TN at 7:30 and made it to Beatrice, NE at 2:30 the
next morning. I had a couple naps along the way at a McDonald's outside St.
Louis and a gas station parking lot in St. Joseph, MO.
Blah, I better shut-up - I'm rambling and living vicariously through the
past with my stories...LOL!
NQ
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