<VV> Re: Synthetic Oil

[Tim Verthein]

I have run Amsoil synthetic oil in everything I've driven since 1979.
This includes a vast array of "modern" cars, my Corvair, and my 1958
Edsel.  I also use synthetic in our outboard motors, snowmobiles, and
everything else that requires a motor oil.  I have experienced NO
sudden additional burning of oil, no additional leakage, or any of the
other evil things that seem to plague a select few.  I am a bit of a
snythetic oil freak, actually.  Basics facts are:

ANY oil you put in your Corvair today, even the cheapest stuff from the
local discount house, will be better than anything you could buy when
your car was new.

ANY synthetic oil will: Reduce operating temps, increase mileage and HP
(the amount of increase varies due to a million variables, but the
reduced friction WILL make any engine more effecient), greatly reduce
internal wear, allow the motor to turn over easier and start better in
cold weather (a benefit I appreciate when my truck sits outside when
it's -40). Internally the engine will be cleaner, since about 88% of
the gunk that builds up in an engine is a byprooduct of petroleum
cooking,  and my experience has been that the extended service life
works.  Although I don't drive the Corvair or the Edsel enough in a
year to bear that out, I've changed once a year in my regular vehicles
for 27 years with no ill effects. If you go with the extended rain
intervals (Amsoil is 25m000 miles, which I've done for many years) you
are dumping about 1/8 as much used oil into the world, and only having
to bother with a change once a year in stead of several times.

Oh, I know, the diehard 3,000 mile oil changers will never change, and
if that's your thing that's fine. I kind of amazes me that in
everything else people seem to embrace new technology when it comes to
their cars, except in oil. Radial tires. Fuel injection. 100,000 mile
spark plugs and tune ups (!) computerized ignition, and all the rest,
but damnit, for some reason people just won't accept that OIL
technology has improved too.  Oh well. I'm happy with my decision, and
27 y ears of driving has proven it to me.  And then again, there are
those who swear by Pennzoil too, the fools!

And, to the real oil freaks, if you compare ALL the specs and tests,
Amsoil beats them all, sometimes by a teensey bit in some catagories,
by much more in others. And I've noticed that other brands only publish
their test marks in the catagories where they shine, Amsoil publishes
them ALL. 

I figure, OK, an Amsoil oil change costs me about $40 with a new
filter.  A change from the local quick lube place costs about $25 or
more,  and even if I do it myself, it's gonna be $20 or more with the
filter. So, for like, an additional $20 a year I'm putting in what I
believe to be the best.  And if it eliminates wear in my engine, and
runs cooler when I'm sitting in bumper to bumper traffic at the
National Convention, then it was $20 well spent.

Tim in Bovey

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