RE: Prolong

["Avi Meron" <avi@cosmoslink.net>]

Amen............
Avi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]On Behalf Of Fringe Ryder
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 1998 4:16 PM
> To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject: Prolong
>
>
> Counterpoint: I have an '87 Escort I bought brand new in ... '87.  I've
> never put synthetic oil in it, nor engine treatment stuff.  I changed the
> oil about every 2700 miles.  At 110K very hard-driven miles (including
> about 35 tires, new brakes, broken rack from rack-and-pinion steering, two
> broken wheels at different times, two broken springs at different times,
> and even three broken motor mounts at one time), compression is still
> within factory-spec for NEW.
>
> You don't need synthetics, and you don't need to drive it gently.
>  You just
> need to change that thar oil.
>
> Fringe
> '97 2.8L (12V) stickshift A4Q (17K miles, near end of treadwear
> on TWO sets
> of tires, already broken/replaced one wheel.  I've gone easy on this one.)
>
> George_Earle@chordiant.com wrote:
> >Snake oil or not, I have used Slick 50, and Mobil 1, Duralube
> and Mobil 1,
> >and now Prolong and Castrol Syntex (Castrol advertises the same qualities
> >
> >as Prolong et al--Mobil 1 is the patent owner of all synthetics)
> in all my
> >high power, turbo cars since 1985;  13 years.
> >
> >I have had 3 Mitsu Starion turbo cars, 1 Audi V8 (still own), and 1 Dodge
> >Stealth Twin Turbo AWD (still own).  I took one of the Starions to 140k
> >plus before I sold it--that one I replaced the turbo, NOT because of oil
> >deprivation or coking, but because they weren't built back then
> with turbo
> >bypass valves and eventually the turbine blades were bent back that it
> >threw off its balance causing the turbo to stop.
> >
> >I have 80k plus on the V8.  I have 155k on the twin turbo Stealth (has
> >bypass valves).  No turbo problems yet.  If anything's gonna eat oil for
> >lunch, it's turbos.
> >
> >Maybe it's maintenance and the synthetics, although I am religious about
> >oil levels, I'll go to 4k to 5k miles between changes (remember it's
> >synthetic, and i only use Wix or Fram filters).
> >
> >I think it's both the synthetic oil and the friction additives.
> >
> >But I ain't changing with my experience, snake oil or not.
> >
> >Shoot, if electronic engineers can make a 0.1 micron transistor,
> why can't
> >chemical/ petrol engineers make better oil?
>
>