HYPER low mi/short trips: conventional or synth?

[CT8]

Originally Posted By: AandPDan
Do an oil analysis to see how your current oil is doing.

Short trips means more contamination. The oil doesn't warm up enough to burn off moisture or fuel.

I'd stick with a conventional and change it more often. No need for a synthetic.
7 pages of opinion and it could have stopped with the facts presented in this well thought of post.

 

[Quartz]

Ugh yeah, I found that last link already.... it derailed pretty quick into people arguing about 'hurricane oil'....

As for the first link, I don't know oil analysis reports from a hole in the wall, but from what you and others are saying it's a good result? I don't even know what I'm looking at. The one question I have is about full synth vs synth blend. It looks like half/most of the magnatec's are synth blend, whereas most people praising seem to using the full synth versions. From what I understand, the 5w-30 used in this report is one of the blend versions. It was 2:1 in this thread of people telling me to use full synth, mainly because of my turbo. He's got a twin turbo though, so I guess the 5w-30 is ok? Basically, I'm unclear if I should toss the 'use full synth' advice from this thread in light of that report.