Originally Posted By: tig1
Originally Posted By: Bill in Utah
Originally Posted By: tig1
High temp areas like Lost Wages can be very hard on oil and engines. Cabs are hard on oil because of the idleing they do which can produce high crank case oil temps. Temp extremes, cold or hot, are hard on oil and engines. In these conditions use a good synt and your engine should produce many trouble free miles.
That is why most of the Cabs in Las Vegas
run Conventional oils and last hundreds of thousands of miles with no problems.
Las Vegas being hard on oil is only in the minds of Marketing departments trying to sell oil.
Take a cab in Buffalo in the middle of winter would be more of a test. Even better would be a delivery vehicle that sees start and stop with engine OFF at each stop in the dead of Winter.
Much harder than ANYTHING that Las Vegas could put out.
But for selling oil Las Vegas seems to be the place...
Actually cabs running in cold weather is much easier on oil because the engines run nearly 24 hours around the clock thus keeping the oil at normal operating temp maost of the time. In very hot areas crankcase temps can sore and never be reflected on the dash temp guage. Extreme heat is the biggest problem for oils,sludge coking,etc. This is why Las Vegas is a good cab-oil test ground. And everone knows good synt oil with stands extreme heat better than dino oils.
Show me all those oil burning, smoke coming out the exhaust, overheating cabs and failing on the side of the road in Las Vegas.
Each and everyone I've been in (go to Las Vegas often as I have family there) had tons of miles and use normal oil. Wonder how they survive? Must have to replace the engine every so often.
And we will disagree with cold weather being easy on vehicles.
Its not. And again MORE engines are out there starting in either hot or cold weather using conventional oils (by a factor or 4/5 to 1 or more) and lasting just fine.
For decades...
But to each their own!
Bill
