Re: Synthetic oil caused lifters to go bad?

[jgraham1@erols.com]

Glenn Kaufman wrote:

> What kind of evidence do you have for the synthetic oil causing the
> lifters
> to go bad?  Has anybody else heard of this?
>
> At 09:32 AM 6/10/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >Is it advisable to use synthetic oil in this Audi?  I have a '90 80q
> that
> I switched over to Mobil 1 at 60K miles and it caused my lifters to go
> bad.
>  After replacing all of the lifters and switching back to "real" oil
> and
> changing at 3K intervals, I haven't had another problem.
> >

The key here is the 60K mark. Synthetic oil will clean out all the gunk
left by normal oil.
And what weight oil did he change to. 30 is a no no at 60k miles from
normal oil to
synthetic without an engine flush.

John
1990 QC