Originally Posted By: Durango
StevieC,
It's possible that dino turns acidic as it ages during normal driving. The longer you have it beyond it's ful duration the more it eats gaskets and such because of the acid type oil.
I wonder????
Durango
used oil analysis I have seen here and of my own doing show the TAN to be low and not a concern with dino. I was thinking more additive package being weaker.
Originally Posted By: Bill in Utah
And I've run mostly Conventional run at longer OCIs (my last one was over 11,000 miles) and not a single seep of oil anywhere at 180,000 miles in the Corolla (coming up).
My Jetta saw nothing but yesterdays conventional oils and had a slight leak towards its end on the valve cover starting around 350,000 miles.
It does not MATTER what type of oil you run in my book. Some engines leak and others do not.
Thanks bill for chiming in. This is the information I was looking for. Good long runs with normal to extended OCI's showing normal gasket functionality.
StevieC,
It's possible that dino turns acidic as it ages during normal driving. The longer you have it beyond it's ful duration the more it eats gaskets and such because of the acid type oil.
I wonder????
Durango
used oil analysis I have seen here and of my own doing show the TAN to be low and not a concern with dino. I was thinking more additive package being weaker.
Originally Posted By: Bill in Utah
And I've run mostly Conventional run at longer OCIs (my last one was over 11,000 miles) and not a single seep of oil anywhere at 180,000 miles in the Corolla (coming up).
My Jetta saw nothing but yesterdays conventional oils and had a slight leak towards its end on the valve cover starting around 350,000 miles.
It does not MATTER what type of oil you run in my book. Some engines leak and others do not.
Thanks bill for chiming in. This is the information I was looking for. Good long runs with normal to extended OCI's showing normal gasket functionality.
