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- From: dap3257@zeus.tamu.edu (DON PERLICK)
- Subject: Re: OIL: SYNTH -> NATURAL
- Message-ID: <13SEP199223203796@zeus.tamu.edu>
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- References: <1888unINNgfa@early-bird.think.com> <4170087@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 04:20:00 GMT
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- In article <4170087@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>, pauls@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Paul Stafford) writes...
- > The way I understand it, it's not healthy to switch the other way, because
- > the detergents in the synth oil will break loose crud that the non-detergent
- > oil left, and your engine will develope athero-sclerosis..., and suffer
- > a heart attack.
- >
- Original subject, as per line, was rumors to the effect that
- once a car is synthetic, it will always be synthetic...
- From personal experience, I can say that both of these are bunk.
- I used conventional for 50,000 miles, then changed to Mobil 1 for a while,
- then went back to conventional for a couple of changes, and am now back
- to synthetic (where I should have been all along!). W/ the Mobil 1, I
- seemed to lose a lot of oil, unexplicably (I had started figuring on a
- rear main...). So I went back to conventional and had no problems, but
- now I'm using Quaker State SynQuest 5w50 with no oil loss. Perhaps the
- drain plug was on the ragged edge...(scary thought!)
-
- Don
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