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Originally posted by Last_Z:
One more thing.....looking at these posts makes you wonder if synthetic oil is really needed in many of our vehicles. Maybe the synthetic makers are hyping and scaring people to sell the more expensive stuff?
I think for most cars out there, in average conditions todays dino oils are ok as long as you stick to the proper intervals. But for poeple like me with high revving, high performance engines, synthetics have their benefits. I also do track racing.. Regular cars could probably extend their drain intervals on synth to 6 or 10K miles so the cost would still be the same over dino.
My dads Buick Regal with the 2.8L V6 had about 400,000km on it in 10 yrs. Regular oil changes since day one with either Quaker State or Castrol 5w30. GM oil filters mostly with maybe Frams too.. Engine still ran strong when he sold the car. If I knew more about oils back then, I would have recommended to him 15w40 in the summer since he did tow a boat with the car but the engine survived anyway.
