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

[LL - NY]

Tim,

Most of the cars that I have switched to synthetic have had
100K miles or more. No problems. Then again, the lowest
milage of changeover was my Saabaru at 1.5K miles. It
occasionally has a sudden oil loss, no leak. I wonder if I
should've had the dino stay in a little longer?

The biggest leaker was my 4KQ, but that had nothing to do
with the oil, it just seemed to like a new valve cover gasket
every two years, milage unrelated. Go figure.

LL - NY

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