No, it's the high mileage stuff. The full synthetic was $1.50 more. I was in a cheap mood that day.
Gone to the Dark Side with Supertech
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That's how people around here are.
The Full Synthetic is 99 cents more and most of the time it stays where while the Conventional is sold out.
Either they read here, and know Conventional is fine.. or they want to gave their dollar.
I won't lie, saving money does get addicting but a dollar won't kill me. Others may disagree. I can go either way.
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Been using quarts of ST Conventional 5w20 for years as top off oil. No issue.
You're gonna get chewed out and all that stuff. Apparently saying super tech is good is not cool!!
(Sarcastic lol)
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Yes the 22 psi at idle being "low" seemed like an odd statement. Then I realized that was compared to past pressures since they've had the car since new.
I would not hesitate to run a 10w40 HM here.
We're going into winter in Michigan, so I wanted to avoid 10W-anything. So it was down to 0W30 or 5W30. 0w30's almost always are going to be full synthetic, so more expensive than a conventional or synblend 5w30.
Honestly, you could probably use Mobil 1 15W-50 and have no starting issues down to about 0 degrees. It has been said that 1. The oil is just that good and 2. It is more like a Full Synthetic 10W and can perform very well that cold. The reviews of it on Amazon from users state this. They say it starts like a summer day, down to about 0 degrees F.
I imagine a 10W from Mobil 1 would be similar.
However, of course, a 5W or 0W would be as you say, no guessing.
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Was there today and it was $21.99
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For conv 5w-30 10.81cSt at 100C
For syn 5w-30 10.91 cSt at 100C
For syn 5w-30 10.91 cSt at 100C
you may be right. I saw the $3 discount sign from $24.
good example of you know how it's always $9.99 and not $10.01 or $10.00 because consumer forgets the cents (mantissa).
do you have the HM version of the ST? I think that's what op was using.
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Only the 5w-30 synthetic HM.
11.0cSt at 100c
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I switched my 2005 Jeep to 5W30 ST Full Syn HM. I did the oil change for under $20 with a Mopar filter. So far so good. I will do a UOA at 5,000 mile OCI just for my own piece of mind.
My wife was like why the he#! didn't you do this years ago? You know how much money we've spent on oil???
Just my $0.02
My wife was like why the he#! didn't you do this years ago? You know how much money we've spent on oil???
Just my $0.02
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