RE: Why Amsoil vs. Mobil

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

Did you manage to see the virgin Merry during that same trip?.......
Avi
Sorry........I just could not help it........I tried............

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]
On Behalf Of IRDdevelop@aol.com
Sent:	Saturday, January 23, 1999 5:14 PM
To:	jes345@altavista.net; quattro@coimbra.ans.net
Subject:	Re: Why Amsoil vs. Mobil

Im a firm believer in synthetics, used them for quite some time in quite a
few
cars, and i do not belive in extending drain periods whatsoever, and thats
about the only thing i do not like about Amsoil, is their claim that you do
not need to drain the oil, just the filter and top it off. Some people i
know
swear by Amsoil, but i'll tell you one thing about Mobil and why i swear by
any synthetic.  August 97, Limerock Park, on the way up in my S4, i had a
loose spark plug break its threads and had a compression leak, at first i
only
felt it cut out at 4000 rpm so i only thought it was an intercooler hose.
driving back home i started noticing the car smoking, pulled over i had oil
leaking out from the cylinder head. All in all, i made it back to NYC, got
stuck in traffic, car was smoking, eventually ran on just 4 cylinders, but i
got home, the car did not overheat, the cylinder walls didnt score, nothing,
just needed a new cylinder head cause i wasnt comfortable heli-coiling new
threads.  I think synthetic made a difference.

Ned