Miricle oil additive?

Thu Jun 2 22:54:10 EDT 2005

FWIW, when I bothered to autocross the 200Q a few times (dunno why
'cept bit by the bug, miss the old GTi), I was using both M1 and
Syntec. Had tap with either oil, but it was MUCH worse with the
Syntec, it was louder, lasted longer, etc. A cool down with the M1,
the tap went away. A trip to home and to the store with the Syntec,
then it FINALLY went away. I personally won't use Syntec.

LL - NY 95.5 S6, M1, autocrossed once, no tap
            '89 200Q, M1, no more autocross, no tap

On 6/2/05, Adam A. Luy <Adam at routersinc.com> wrote:
> I agree with the Castrol Syntec guys. I've used it in all my old VWs over the years, and now in my growing fleet of Audis. BTDT on the Mobil 1 too, seems noisier and engine gets hotter faster - I live in Arizona so heat is always a major concern.
> 
> Regarding 3k oil changes...I can't say that I always change at 3k, but if I'm under the Avant (or the Coupe, or the other Coupe, or the other Avant...geez) - which seems to be often - I change the oil. I don't think you can change oil too much...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Adam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Denis
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 5:22 AM
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Miricle oil additive?
> 
> Yeah.
> 
> I have tried many brand and its knocking in the head. Lifter noise.
> I tried Mobil1 cause lot of people here have one religion=Mobile1. But the lifter did not like it.
> 
> I then put back Castrol synthec and the engine run smoother and no NOISE anymore.
> 
> And, i never change oil every 3k,,,,, oh myyyyy... its an engine, not a baby to change, the oil can do last more than that !!, and i have something else to do with my part time :-).
> 
> Experience is the best way to learn :-).
> 
> Ðenis
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Ben Swann
>  To: Kneale Brownson
>  Cc: brett at cloud9.net ; quattro at audifans.com
>  Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 12:29 AM
>  Subject: Re: Miricle oil additive?
> 
> 
>  I agree, with Kneals experience with Castrol - 20W50 summer, 10W40 Winter
>  works consistantly well and change every 3K miles then no problems.
> 
>  I'll throw in my experience factor on Synth as well.  I have tried many oils
>  and grades of them mostly in Audi I5's, but a lot of VW 4's and some GM eg.
>  older smallblock Chevy.
> 
>  For the I5's in general, nothing I've used has kept lifters from ticking
>  better than Castrol Syntec 5W50.  I don't care about all the regurgitated
>  advertising hype that I keep hearing about Syntec not being "pure" Synth,
>  etc..  All oils need to have a source to form the molecules - either by
>  cracking non-synth stocks, or forming from smaller basic organic components.
>  int the end they get "synthesized" into something radically different than
>  what they started out as.
> 
>  Now I have not tried some of the Royal Purple, Rotella Synth, etc. I keep
>  hearing about, as they are not generally available off the shelf around
>  here.  Probably very good stuff.   I have not found a Mobil Synth. that has
>  the visc. range of Syntec, but hear they have one out now.  I also know that
>  many of the newer engines like thinner oils with a lower Visc. so my
>  experience does not apply to them.
> 
>  Anyway, I have been using Syntec for years with great results and have had
>  some things happen that are similar to the Syntec commercial where they
>  drain the oil and the engine keeps running.  When I use something different,
>  including Mobil. I with the widest range I could find, I don't get as good
>  of results - usually lifters ticking once the engine gets hot.  This is a
>  generality and some engines are lesss picky.
> 
>  I forget a lot of the Organic chemistry, but know what has worked from
>  experience.  I believe Castrol has a good product regardless that its
>  competitor says it doesn't use the same manufacturing process they do -
>  hogwash!  What matters is the end result.
> 
>  I really didn't want to get caught up in any oil war threads, but it bothers
>  me that I often see incorrect or misleading information get taken as the
>  final truth.  Just presenting a different view, as it seems some things
>  become "gospel" that shouldn't necessarily be.
> 
>  Ben
> 
>  [Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:05:06 -0400
>  From: Kneale Brownson <kneale at coslink.net>
>  Subject: Re: Miricle oil additive?
>  To: "Ed Kellock" <ekellock at gmail.com>, "quattro"
>  <quattro at audifans.com>
>  Message-ID: <4.1.20050601225920.016f9728 at pop.coslink.net>
>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
>  PO indicated my 200q20v grew up on Castrol dino oils to the ripe old age of
>  140K by the time I acquired it.  I've kept up that practice for another 90k
>  miles so far.  I change oil/filter at "about" 4k.  I don't really see any
>  reason to pay for synthetics to be used in equipment designed before there
>  were synthetics.
> 
>  I use dino Rotella in my diesel tractors.
> 
>  At 07:48 PM 6/1/2005 -0600, Ed Kellock wrote:
>  >I use the Rotella non-synth in my V8's.  I also used the synth one
>  >winter.  Can't tell much in such a short time though.  This was
>  >partially a result of my dad using 15W40 in the Mercedes that we had
>  >back in the mid 70's.  He went with the diesel grade oil because we
>  >lived in the desert and he wanted the extra vicosity.  That car ended
>  >up with over 200k on it 20 years later.]
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