Mobile 1 0W-40 hits the shelves

[Joseph Pizzimenti]

All,
This is a paranoia notice.  This past summer, while
experimenting with different oil weights, I figured
what the hell, I'll give Mobil 1 0-30 a shot.
Couldn't hurt, right?  Well, after running the car
pretty enthusiastically from Albany to Bridgeport, I
stop the car, get out, let it cool, grab a cup of
coffee and shut the car off.  A few hours later, on
the way to a friend's house, the valve cover gasket
spewed oil all over the place.  Lesson learned?  Don't
go too light if you're running the car even remotely
hard.  I wasn't driving it at WOT the whole way, but
cruising at 110, dropping down to 70, then blasting to
100's again for a while until the temps got up, then
I'd get off it for a while, etc.  0-40 may be cool for
the winter, but ever since then, I've never run
anything thinner than 10-40 Amsoil.  That's what's in
there now and when it gets warm, I'll switch back to
20-50 Amsoil.  Just sharing my experience, YMMV, but
knowing what I do now, unless you have complete faith
in your seals and gaskets (and those of us, i.e., most
of us, over 100k really don't), thicker ist betta...at
least for me.

Joe
--- DeWitt Harrison <Six-Rs at attbi.com> wrote:
> Maybe this has already been posted since this weight
> of Mobile 1 motor oil has been available from the
> manufacturer for quite a while. But, ime, it has not
> been widely available at the usual retail outlets. I
> just
> now picked up a couple of six-packs at my local
> Checker.
> The clerk expressed curiosity about it's application
> and said they had started stocking it only a week
> or two ago.
>
> I think 0W-40 is a _great_ winter weight choice for
> the turbo
> cars. It had always ticked me off that available
> Mobile 1
> weights jumped from 10W-30 to 15W-50 (a great hot
> weather oil for turbo cars but probably a touch
> heavy
> for cold temps). I would have been tickled pink if
> they
> brought out 10W-40. 0W-40 is frosting on the cake.
>
> Cheers,
>
> DeWitt Harrison
> '88 5kcstq
>


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