Originally Posted By: Flareside302
Originally Posted By: KrisZ
Originally Posted By: Capa
Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
I look at the wear metals in the UOA section and I don't see any better
wear numbers with synthetic -- often times even worse in many cases.
It's too bad wear numbers in an UOA are not indicative of real wear.
You are welcome to provide whatever evidence that you have to show us the difference in "real wear" bewteen dino and synthetic.
Run conventional for 3k do a UOA.
Then run a synthetic for 3k, do a UOA..
Betcha the synthetic will come back with lower wear numbers and have much much more life left in it..
I seriously doubt there would be any real difference between the 2 at 3000 miles. In fact I'd even go as far as saying there's very little difference at 5000 miles.
Synthetics last longer in service. They aren't magic. Its oil. They both are.
Syns have some advantages such as cold flow and better tbn retention however if 2 people had identical engines and used them in an identical fashion ,the only difference being one person is using a syn and the other a mineral oil and both running 5000 mile drains I'm pretty much positive there wouldn't be any difference in engine life. Both oils being the same brand therefore the same additive package and the only difference is the basestock.
I find it amusing reading posts like this and the confidence the poster has,when in reality they've never actually checked and just figured because an oils synthetic it somehow reduces wear dramatically