RE: Synthetic Oil?

["ian" <e@sbbs.se>]

Wasn't it Consumer Reports?
I thought the consensus was that their tests were flawed because those
taxi's remain running all day whereas a car will be stopped and re started
throughout the day. The starting of the engine is were a lot of the wear and
tear comes from.
Believe me, this is not my field of expertise, this is just what I have
heard, although I do have the issue of CR

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: Majordomo [mailto:majord@neubayern.net]On Behalf Of Wm. Josiah
Erikson
Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 7:16 PM
To: Scirocco List
Subject: Re: Synthetic Oil?


FWIW, Car & Driver did a study awhile back about synthetic oil. They tested
some New York taxis over 60,000 miles and could not discern any difference
in
engine wear between synthetic and normal oil, nor could they tell the
difference between any of the other oils. As far as they could tell, all
oils
protected as well as each other. In extreme temperature situations,
synthetic
oil can help. But unless you live in Alaska or the Sahara, I wouldn't worry
about it.  Just my $.02
    -Josiah
    '84 GTi (away for the winter)
    '86 Scirocco 8v (for sale)
    '87 QSW (daily driver)
    http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah

Robert Whitney wrote:

> I just got an '85 scirocco with around 100K miles on it. The engine is
from
> an '84 GTI. I was wondering if there is a possibility of changing to
> synthetic oil without replacing all the seals and such. Is synthetic
really
> worth it? What about semi-synthetic?
>
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