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- From: dilmore@eastrg2.cray.com (Robert James Dilmore)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Castrol Syntec???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.071356.29350@walter.cray.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 13:13:56 GMT
- 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.
- |>
- |> 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.
- When I started using Syntec, it did turn brown faster than my usual oil
- which is Castrol (dinosuar). After about about 1500 miles it stabilized at
- dark walnut. The Passat had 20K miles on it. When I changed it 4000 miles
- after putting it in I noticed a 1/4 inch of sludge on the bottom of my oil
- drain pan. I myself am in a qaundry, as you are. So I tried it again, the
- oil is now staying cleaner at 1500 miles (chestnut colored). If when I drain
- the oil at the same mileage and there is no sludge I will continue using it.
- If there is the same amount of sludge, You'all,Castrol,VW,the world will know
- about it.
- |>
- |> I have three theories:
- |>
- |> 1) The bad oil filter allowed enough air to mix with the oil to degrade it.
-
- Not likely
-
- |>
- |> 2) Syntec is so good it is disolving 8 years / 125K miles of Camry sludge
- |> that has been accumulating in my engine.
-
- Could be, I hope that case is true. If it is not I wonder why it has been on the
- European market soo long. I figure if anyplace has a large percentage of overworked
- 16 valve 4 bangers it must be there.
-
- |>
- |> 3) Syntec is expensive crap.
-
- Syntec is expensive, but not more than Mobil 1... crap, we'll see. So far the
- only benifit that I see is my engine feels warmed up faster. This is probably
- due to the 5w figure.
-
- |>
- |> Anyone care to comment?
-
- NAAHHH :0)
-
- |> --
- |> Jerry Natowitz
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