[s-cars] super tech brand synthetic oil - thoughts?

[Lee Levitt]

Tim,
 
I've switched most of my cars to synthetic since about 1979, probably
accounting for 700K miles or so. Volvos, Audis, Land Rovers, Mercedes,
ranging from brand new engines to ones that had, on average, 60-75K. The
Mercedes is both my most recent and highest mileage. I switched my S6 at
75K.
 
I did not switch a couple of cars in the early days of synthetic, namely a
couple of 4 cylinder (B20) Volvos that had 60-120K miles on them. The latter
one went through enough oil that it would have cost a fortune to use
synthetic :)
 
In all of that time I have not had a seal go on any of my cars...
 
Of course, YMMV.
 
Lee
'96 A6 2.8 quattro avant 112K (Mobil 1)
'93 Mercedes 300D 2.5 180K (Mobil 1 Delvac)


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From: tim rad [mailto:tr0910 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:01 PM
To: lee at wheelman.com
Cc: chris chambers; Scar
Subject: Re: [s-cars] super tech brand synthetic oil - thoughts?


Based on your thoughts, I'll switch mine too.....

Tim


On 12/6/05, Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com> wrote: 

Tim writes:

> I haven't put it in my S4 as it already had 140,000 mi when I 
> bought it.
> Most of its oilchanges were at the dealer so I doubt it was
> seeing synthetic.  I was concerned about converting to
> synthetic on high mileage engines.

Tim,

I've heard lots of *old* stories about that. At 180K miles I converted a 
2.5L Mercedes turbodiesel to synthetic, and have not had a problem.

Do you know of *anyone* that has converted an engine in the past five years
to synthetic and had a problem?

Lee