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IMHO, w/ Justin, but...
Posted by Dan W (more from Dan W) on Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:47:36
In Reply to: Re: Swithching to Mobil 1 at 200K. Yeah or Nea??, JustinHiFi
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I've been kicking this around a while. In a high mileage naturally aspirated car I can't see the miniscule (if any) benefit outweighing the leak hassle and extra few $. Heck, one could use 5W30 instead of 10W30 dino if startup is an issue and be entirely within Saab spec and reason. The n/a engine is notoriously long lived with reasonable care.
In contrast, however, for a turbo given the well established risk of coking and oil starvation in a high tolerance, high perf, glowing hot temp machine (turbo), switching to synth and dealing with the leaks and/or seal replacements sounds very prudent to me. The popularity of synth today was born from it's successful (if also leaky at first :o) use in the military on helicopters, a notoriously high-stress machine.
'85 900S 189k
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Posts in this Thread:
- Swithching to Mobil 1 at 200K. Yeah or Nea??, Viggen
, Sun, 10 Feb 2002 22:20:39- Re: Swithching to Mobil 1 at 200K. Yeah or Nea??, es, Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:36:54
- Re: Nea, Erik K, Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:46:56
- Re: Swithching to Mobil 1 at 200K. Yeah or Nea??, SAABY57, Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:11:47
- My '88 900S with 305,000 miles (all mine...) used, Talladega900, Sun, 10 Feb 2002 23:58:18
- Re: Swithching to Mobil 1 at 200K. Yeah or Nea??, JustinHiFi
, Sun, 10 Feb 2002 22:27:12- IMHO, w/ Justin, but..., Dan W, Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:47:36 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Swithching to Mobil 1 at 200K. Yeah or Nea??, tom, Sun, 10 Feb 2002 23:56:34
- True,.., JustinHiFi
, Mon, 11 Feb 2002 00:54:03- Yeah..., bazil burns, Mon, 11 Feb 2002 08:48:12
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