more mixing oils!!!

[electrolover]

lol i have a few jugs of maxlife and 10 qts of napa syn.
im thinking or running 5qts maxlife and 2 qts napa syn(7 qt sump)
im not asking if its compatible, but im wondering what the oil would perform like.
any hypothesis on how it the mix will perform or how if at all napa can boost the add pac? i have a felling it will work very well.

 

[widman]

You better off running one and then the other

 

[bobfather99]

It won't hurt anything to mix them up. Go ahead if you really want to.

 

[tinmanSC]

Both are made by the same company - Valvoline. The Napa oils have a slightly weaker additive pack than the regular Valvoline oils, but they are fully compatible.

 

[4ever4d]

Mix away my good man,no problem.

 

[mongo161]

I do it all the time with neighbors cars. I use a Gallon Jug of PP, Mobil 1 EP or Valvoline SynPower and 2 quarts of Advance Auto or WM SynTec synthetic oil for their OCI.

The Add Packs are strong in the "Brand Name" synthetics and the add packs in the Advance Auto/WM Syntech are also very good.

IMO....the combination of the Brand name and Store Brand synthetic oils help to "stretch the mix" and Brand names and store name oils seem to compliment each other nicely.

IMO...I bet you will have a good combo with mixing the Maxlife and NAPA synthetic oils.

You can same a pile of money and get a great formulation with the mixing.

I do it most of the time with high priced brand name oils....to smooth out the pack.

 

[Oregoonian]

Originally Posted By: bobfather99
It won't hurt anything to mix them up. Go ahead if you really want to.

Here we go again....mix to your hearts content....your vehicle won't know the difference.

Now lets move on.

 

[electrolover]

im not really asking if its ok. my question was about the final product and how the oil gurus think it will work and what if any would be the advantages. sorry if i misstated the question here


im assuming napa syn is a group 3 and the maxlife synblend is a group2+ with some esters maybe. i just wonder haow it would all work together and i wonder what a uoa would look like

a common person would think a syn blend with more syn would be more robust. any thoughts?

 

[tinmanSC]

Well, it will end up being a watered down MaxLife. Probably not significantly, but the add pack in the Napa oils isn't as robust as MaxLife. All the metrics (NOACK, pour point.. etc..) would be a hybrid. Often, there is no magic in mixing finished-product oils. What you will end up with is based on what you put in. (i.e. put a little bit of higher pour point oil in a lower pour point oil and you will raise it's pour point a tad.) Both are good oils so I think the final result will be well within any spec you wanna throw at it.

 

[electrolover]

food for thought. thank you tinman.

its just i hate to open a jug to use two qts. a 5qt jug is still an oil change in my explorer.

 

[Trav]

In 08 i was doing an unannounced visit to a station to verify compliance with state emissions testing.
This was a well known Mobil station near Boston,in the back room i noticed some jugs of supertech.
Further inspection revealed trash bags full of Mobil 1 bottles that had been used at the full service pump as oil top offs.

There was about 20 large jugs or supertech 10w-30 and funnels along with clean empty Mobil 1 bottles ready for filing with funnels in the top.
They were refilling the Mobil 1 bottles again and again and putting them out on the rack next to the pump,all bottles next to the pump had broken seals
Their little sideline business came to an end right then and there but this is only one of many i'm sure.