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Wed 26 Sep 2001 19:21

Re: fully synthetic oil prices - Alvin Booth

Do cars (apart from F1) and very high performance engines really need fully synthetic oils or is it a marketing ploy.
I use semi-synthetic with an oil change every 5000 miles but whether its really necessary I,m not so sure.
My cousin who ran his own HGV recently retired. His DAF lorry had done close to a million miles.
"What oil did you use Norm" says I. Expecting him to give me some brand name which he would extoll as the finest you can buy.... "The cheapest bloody oil I could find" was his reply. Anything he could find cheap he would use.
Yes I know that a lorry is running at lower revs and rarely runs cold, but still it makes you think....
Alvin

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Messages	Author	Date
fully synthetic oil prices	Mike Wolstencroft	Wed 26 Sep 2001 15:12
Re: fully synthetic oil prices	Stuart B	Wed 26 Sep 2001 16:22
Re: fully synthetic oil prices	Alwyn	Wed 26 Sep 2001 19:19
Re: fully synthetic oil prices	Mike Wolstencroft	Thu 27 Sep 2001 08:25
Re: fully synthetic oil prices	John Slaughter	Thu 27 Sep 2001 09:51
Re: fully synthetic oil prices	Mike Wolstencroft	Thu 27 Sep 2001 10:55
Re: fully synthetic oil prices	Alvin Booth	Wed 26 Sep 2001 19:21
Silly metric measurements	David Lacey	Wed 26 Sep 2001 20:22
Re: fully synthetic oil prices	dave m	Fri 28 Sep 2001 00:08
Re: fully synthetic oil prices	Stuart B	Thu 27 Sep 2001 12:00
Re: fully synthetic oil prices	Charles	Thu 27 Sep 2001 12:10
Re: fully synthetic oil prices	John Slaughter	Thu 27 Sep 2001 17:17
Re: fully synthetic oil prices	Stuart B	Fri 28 Sep 2001 10:53
Re: fully synthetic oil prices	Stuart B	Fri 28 Sep 2001 13:04
Re: fully synthetic oil prices	Tony Cooper	Fri 28 Sep 2001 13:39