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- From: schmitt@neptune.jsc.nasa.gov (Leonard Schmitt 283-4150)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Castrol Syntec???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.165854.3618@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:58:54 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.004810.2476@spdcc.com>
- Sender: schmitt@neptune (Leonard Schmitt 283-4150)
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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.
- |>
- |> I have three theories:
- |>
- |> 1) The bad oil filter allowed enough air to mix with the oil to degrade it.
- |>
- |> 2) Syntec is so good it is disolving 8 years / 125K miles of Camry sludge
- |> that has been accumulating in my engine.
- |>
- |> 3) Syntec is expensive crap.
- |>
- |> Anyone care to comment?
- |> --
- |> Jerry Natowitz
- |> Guest user on:
- |> ARPA jin@ursa-major.spdcc.com
- |> UUCP {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!jin
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- I recently put Syntec in my 1988 Bertone X1/9, which has 30,000 miles on it.
- The oil turned dark in two days! The main problem I am having with it is the
- oil pressure light now takes a second or two to go off after starting the car
- if it has been setting for over an hour. Previously I had used regular Castrol
- 20-50w and the oil pressure light always went out immediately after starting.
- When I change the oil next time I'm going back to the regular 20-50w.
-
- Leonard Schmitt
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