Subject: RE: Oil requirements
By now this has had to have gotten beat to death, here and out there in the
cyberworld of google searches.
For you data geeks (and I hope no one has already posted this), there are
some interesting comparisons of various syntho and dyno oils on VI, flash
point, pour point, and-- for you bikers out there, %zinc out there.
Take a look at www.repairfaq.org/filipg/AUTO/F_oil_facts.html
Find your favorite brew and see how it stacks up. I printed this out a
couple of years ago when looking for readily available motorcycle oils.
Don't know if it's still up on the web or been superceded by more recent
data. Was glad to notice that Castrol GTX 20-50 was pretty decent stuff.
Has .12% zinc for aircooled motors. And it goes on sale a lot.
As for being too worried about my daily driver cars.....I routinely keep a
car 250,000 to 300,000 miles before a tree falls on it or someone in my
family totals it. I tell myself to change the oil and the filter when I see
4,000 miles go by and usually get to it before 7,000 miles go by. I can't
remember the last time I got rid of a "modern" car because the engine had
worn out. No. That's not true. I had a crappy '74 Pinto back in the
70's...it used itself up. Suspect build quality issues ;-)
My diesel Jetta TDI requires synthetic diesel oil and I've been using Shell
Rotella T Full Synthetic that I have to buy from the Freightliner dealer.
(The VW dealer doesn't even handle oil that meets VW's own spec for turbo
diesel engines). I plan to do an oil analysis at 10,000 miles, change the
filter, and decide later whether to change the oil. Granted, the car runs
80 miles almost every time it starts up, but I'll bet it lasts until the
body dissolves.
JohnD
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