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On 20 Mar 2003 at 7:01, Shad Laws wrote: > Synthetics aren't "sensitive" to dirt or anything. However, the > presence of dirt tends to diminish the advantages of synthetic oil to > start with. The two advantages I'm talking about are: extended drain > intervals, extended engine life. Obviously, if the oil is dirty, > engine life goes down. And, you can't leave dirty oil in for 6000- > 7500mi. :-) I agree. It was the latter that I was refering to. > Synthetics rock. BTDT. Cooling ability? No problem. Ignore Berg - > he's wrong. Don't believe me - do the tests yourself with head ando > il temp gauges. High temperature stability? No ptoblem. Have I > witnessed where they've done things that are impossible to do with > conventional oils? Sure. I'm really glad to hear you debunking the heat/cooling problem. I wonder how this stuff gets started, but there's just no way it can be any different from mineral oil. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org