Originally Posted By: Uphill_Both_Ways
I'm gonna put a bottle of M1 5W30 out there now and will see how it pours at –31C/–29F, or at whatever temp it drops to.
For what it’s worth — and it ain’t much.
I waited until 2 a.m., when the temperature fell to –30°C/–22°F, when I took two screen shots, and poured the small remainder of a litre of Mobil 1 5W30 in my left hand into a measuring cup sitting atop the back fence under a streetlight, with a stopwatch in my right hand.
It took 0:21:27 seconds for the oil to reach the 225-millilitre mark, 8.4 U.S. ounces, at which point it turned into a thin dribble. The bottle was almost empty.
The best answer as to what I proved wins the internet, but other than that I wanted to see how much faster synthetic 5W30 would flow than straight 30 dino, as slow as it did in the nightmare I recounted in another post.
Nothing up my sleeves and no gloves or mitts. And the car started without being plugged in after sitting seven or eight hours.
I'm gonna put a bottle of M1 5W30 out there now and will see how it pours at –31C/–29F, or at whatever temp it drops to.
For what it’s worth — and it ain’t much.
I waited until 2 a.m., when the temperature fell to –30°C/–22°F, when I took two screen shots, and poured the small remainder of a litre of Mobil 1 5W30 in my left hand into a measuring cup sitting atop the back fence under a streetlight, with a stopwatch in my right hand.
It took 0:21:27 seconds for the oil to reach the 225-millilitre mark, 8.4 U.S. ounces, at which point it turned into a thin dribble. The bottle was almost empty.
The best answer as to what I proved wins the internet, but other than that I wanted to see how much faster synthetic 5W30 would flow than straight 30 dino, as slow as it did in the nightmare I recounted in another post.
Nothing up my sleeves and no gloves or mitts. And the car started without being plugged in after sitting seven or eight hours.
