What does that have to do with what I stated? I said my engine runs smoother on something. Your responses so far have been that it’s impossible compared to an oil that meets a factory spec and now that it’s not directly correlated to wear. Can you point to any place I said it was? You brought the topic, not me, taking a shot saying I couldn’t tell the difference and that it’s not possible. I said I could. I never mentioned wear or anything else. I’m going to make sure my statements and reasons for them stay on point and not drift to everything else you want to drag into this. My mother use to argue like that.
No idea? It's been a pretty simple one liner. Different oils do make engines run smoother and it's pretty naive to believe they don't. Different additive packages have different results and purposes. There really seems to be two camps of people here. Those that have tried and first hand verified and those that haven't and don't want to believe it's possible.
Haven't noticed any meaningful difference regarding oil consumption from Shell HU, Fuchs, Total, Eurolub, and right now Shell HX-8, all X40 A3/B4.
M1 0W40 (SN) going in next.
Only theory I got is that you only get x amount of y&z viscosity baseoil from HC and GTL, 20/30 is in higher demand. That and API SP for 30 is harder to achieve?
there are some other members that noticed that loss of oil in their engines.
i have read long time ago that some users of that shell in their UOA ,Flash point was always down more than other oils after 5k. It seems they have issues around GTL base stock and flash point.
could be the fact that its more common ,its OEM for most modern cars that require this viscosity.
