[s-cars] Amsoil advice requested

[brian hoeft]

im currently running the 15/40 diesel marine oil, and will for the next
change as well before i drive to maryland for h2o.  then for the winter i'll
go to lower numbers,, another AMSynthetic like the 0/30.

mind you my friends dad is the shop owner who i buy it from at close
to cost, i shop at wal mart as little as possible, disagree that a
multibillion dollar company would produce better oil since they have much
more to gain by cutting cost/quality and so on.

i dont know if i'd run the diesel oil full time, but am chosing to as an
experiment with regards to primarily, its detergent charachteristics and
consumption between changes.

with our cars being boosted and typically more than when originally
purchased,, a narrow range is best from what ive learned.   i used to be big
on the castrol 0/60, but that wide spread isnt optimal in a heavily boosted
car, so now my pendulum has swung towards narrow weight ranges.

2 cents later and im out, //brian


On 9/12/06, Steve Marinello <smarinello at entouch.net> wrote:
>
> Going to do the big shift to Amsoil for the three quattros, plus the
> wifes's Odyssey.  My questio is, which weights/oils do you guys run in your
> S6's?  The recommendations are, unsurprisingly, the Euro 5W40, Series 2000
> 0W30 or 20W50, and the 10W40 HP Synthetic.  Disregarding the lighter weights
> and the extra costs of the Series 2000 oils, that leaves the 10W40, which is
> a weight that I've avoided in the past, as it has beeen said to have the
> optimum proeprties tend to degrade faster in that blend due to the additive
> packages used (old data, maybe dino and no longer valid?).  Anyway, I've
> always run 20W50, 15W50 or 5W50 oils in the S6's and urq (for which they
> recommend the 0W20...never going to happen!).
>
> I had planned on using the HP 20W50 Syn , or the 15W40 HD Diesel and
> Marine Syn that a fellow lister recommended.  Comments and BTDT appreciated
> before I place an order.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
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