Re: Synthetic Oil?

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

Yes it was Consumer Reports... I'm wrong (again). And I've been reading some
stuff in the past few hours and I've come to my own personal conclusion that
probably, in situations where a) the car is being started and shut off often and
b) the oil is being changed at intervals of greater than 5000 miles, synthetic
is probably better. I have no doubts that synthetic is superior, I just wonder
if the fact that it is superior actually translates into decreased engine wear.
I'm sure it's better under some conditions, and doesn't make any difference
under other situations. Me, I'm going to stick with petro oil until I one day
buy a new car or rebuild and engine right, and then I'll break it in with petro
and then run synthetic. For now, I don't have an engine that I care enough about
to make it worth it.
    -Josiah


ian wrote:

> 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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