Oil Color

[Grant Lenahan]

And if it is sludged, its slowly cleaning that away too.
Doesnt matter, a good sign in either case.

Grant
On Jan 23, 2006, at 11:01 PM, SuffolkD at aol.com wrote:

> Dan:
> Provided your enginee isn't "sludged" its the detergents working in the
> enginee cleaning away. -Scott by BOSTON
>
>> From: Dan DiBiase <>
>>
>> I thought this had been discussed sometime but I  searched in the 
>> archives
>> and came up empty so..... I had my 25k mile  oil and filter change 
>> done (at
>> the dealer) about 1k miles ago. I was  checking the oil yesterday and 
>> noticed
>> that it seems to be pretty dark,  almost black. Up to this point I 
>> have used
>> Mobil1 0w-40, but forgot to  buy it before I went to the dealer. Their
>> standard oil is Castrol  Syntec 5w-40. I thought I had read somewhere 
>> that synthetic
>> oil tends  to darken more quickly....? Does this make any sense?
>>
>
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