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- From: eliot@stalfos.engr.washington.edu (eliot)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Castrol Syntec???
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 04:35:10 GMT
- Organization: clearer than blir
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- Message-ID: <Jan28.043409.21132@engr.washington.edu>
- References: <1993Jan27.004810.2476@spdcc.com>
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- In article <1993Jan27.004810.2476@spdcc.com> jin@spdcc.com (Jerry Natowitz) writes:
- >One month ago, falling for the ad campaigns (and Castrol's good ratings
- >in Consumer Reports), I bought 5 quarts and an oil filter and changed
- >my oil to Syntec. As an aside, which may be relevent, the oil filter
- >had a bad gasket and leaked about a quart before I got another.
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- >Now, barely 5 weeks later, the oil is filthy black. I usually never see
- >the oil so dark, I change it when it is dark brown, about 2, 1500 mile
- >months.
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- i am on my first sumpful on my Audi V8. it takes 8 1/2 quarts of oil
- (ouch!!) [used to take 10, but the factory revised it]. contrary to
- what you are experiencing, the syntec in my car did not even start to
- get dark until i passed 3000 miles. i am at 4000 now and it is dark,
- but not black. it looks so good that i think i will keep it in there
- till 7500 (with an intermediate filter change). the dinosaur oil
- would get dark around 2500.
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- no oil pressure problems either, and its low friction on cold mornings
- is to me its biggest win. i will be using this stuff again.
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- eliot
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