Rick,
I guess this all has finally gotten to me so I made the post I repeat below in another thread on this forum. I REALLY don't believe the GC crowd has tried to foist off GC on any who were unwilling. We have been vocal, we have been frequent, but basically we have interacted among the fans, never (that I am aware of trying to trick or force people into accepting it). Please see the post excerpt from userfriendly and my response below:
I guess this all has finally gotten to me so I made the post I repeat below in another thread on this forum. I REALLY don't believe the GC crowd has tried to foist off GC on any who were unwilling. We have been vocal, we have been frequent, but basically we have interacted among the fans, never (that I am aware of trying to trick or force people into accepting it). Please see the post excerpt from userfriendly and my response below:
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Originally posted by pscholte:
Originally posted by userfriendly:
How about paying for performance and warranty certification instead? Everytime someone asks an engine oil question, everybody jumps onto the PAO/group III debate, which is getting older by the day.You have seen through the anti-Castrol bias/fog and seen the issue for what it really is. Does the oil meet engine requirements and does it perform? If the UOAs from any particular oil are superior, it is worth what you paid for it NO MATTER what it is made out of. If they are not, it is not...assuming that UOAS tell us everything we need to know about how the oil is performing and that we all have Terry Dyson's ability to properly interpret results. In addition, how are some members of this board SO SURE what it costs Castrol to make SYNTEC. Do they have access to the firm's accounting figures that show total cost for Group III base oil procurement and for the additive packages they use and for blending methodology? Why does no one REALLY take Pennzoil or Valvoline or Chevron to task over what they charge for their "synthetics?" This is prejudice, pure and simple. It is also a classic case of how the internet can build and perpetuate hearsay. (Did Mobil only go after Castrol about the definition of synthetic...if so, why? Could it be Castrol was the only one they were worried about from a competition standpoint?)