At 08:24 PM 2/19/98 , you wrote:
>Talk about marketing....synthetic oil is maybe the biggest marketing con in
>years. Super premium price and almost no benefit to 99% of the driving
>population. You live in Alaska or Ecuador, maybe. In the US the
>advantages are miniscule at best. That's why their demo's are always oil in
>a frying pan or in a freezer....very graphic, but no relationship to the
>real world.
>
>So if you're using synoil, you've already bought into the "ridiculous
>claims".
>
You've obviously never seen my wife start up her van and have it in gear
and going down the road before the starter motor quits spinning. I gave up
on trying to get her to warm up a vehicle a long time ago and started using
synthetic oil because it gets into the upper part of the engine quicker.
-- Mike Crumley mcrumley@airmail.net 97 Dakota Regular Cab Short Bed 3.9L V6 3.55 Auto DDBC Bug Shield Mud Flaps
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