Re: Synthetic oil

Posted by 2002sliverado on May 26, 2017 at 13:39:24 from (216.16.75.34):

In Reply to: Synthetic oil posted by bcdave on May 26, 2017 at 07:24:50:

I started with synthetic in a car I had purchased with low miles on the odometer and was 4 years old. I had that car for nearly 8 years and it started great in both winter and summer. I also had a "first" with that car. It was the first car I ever owned (every car or truck I have owned, I bought used) which never needed a battery replaced. The battery in that car appeared to be the original battery. The car was pretty much driven to work every day. I cannot help but think with the starter not laboring so much to start the car in the cold weather, might have strained the battery less, thus giving me a longer life in that battery. I since switched my wife's good car, my daughter's car, and my diesel pickup truck to full synthetic oil. With the cars driven by others, they pay little attention to the oil change stickers or "oil life" indicators, and I know they intervals get stretched out further than I like to see them, thus I can at least feel confident the oil is in good condition by the time I get the oil changed. I did put full synthetic oil in my yard and snow removal tractor. It turns over easier in the cold weather and seems to start quicker. I DO plug in the block heater as it is a cold blooded engine. I just feel the synthetic is a superior product when experiencing extremes in temperature at startup and operation, as well as if/when the oil change interval might be stretched out a bit. I probably am throwing my money away, but I like to see the engine oil changed, even when using the synthetic, just as prescribed in the owner's manual. I have a friend of mine who ran 0W-30 synthetic in his garden tractor he used for snow removal in the winter months to aid in starting. Never a lick of trouble with it. I suspect you will "clean out" the crankcase in the old tractors and stationary engines if you switch. For how I use my old tractors and stationary engines for events and nothing really more, I won't resort to using synthetic in mine.

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