Let's get rid of some of the additives and refine this to a base oil...
~It's interesting to read that many people use short OCI's while using synthetics, considering there are many comments in the "Bypass Filter" forum suggesting they could use longer OCI's. Also, many people have differing opinions, so be careful with this advice since it's your engine and not theirs.~
Okay.
All that being said (post edit), I greatly appreciate the various opinions and information I get from the BITOG website. Without it, I would have to base my purchases solely upon what I read on the back of oil bottles and filter boxes.
That would probably mean whichever oil is on sale and Fram filters for the life of my vehicles.
Now everyone knows that you have to be careful of advice from people you've never really met. But that's why you question them, that's why you look at UOA's, and that's why you identify what works for you and you share it here. I've only been posting here for a month and I've already received some very detailed, indepth messages from people that I'm pretty sure took more than a few minutes from their day to help me.
That's the sort of thing that "I am amazed" by.
C.T.
[ October 23, 2005, 12:19 PM: Message edited by: Crack_Tan ]