Oil isn't an absolute on/off thing, like cinderella where one day at a particular mile it and suddenly turns bad. It degrades over time.
So for a particular OCI while Syn and Dino are both serviceable, at the end of the OCI, the synthetic "good enough" should still be better than the dino's "good enough".
Combine with the cost differential being very minor, then the costs synthetic may pay for it's costs.
The question you should ask, is is there any downside besides the cost for Synthetic? I think all the rumors about it causing leaks are busted, and everyone here will just about agree that if the two products were the same price they'd choose the synthetic.
Say the difference in oil costs is about $4.
That's about 1 gallon of gas or say 20miles. If over the whole OCI, and especially near the end of life, the synthetic stays slightly better and eeks you out 20 extra miles of distance then indeed it has paid for itself.
If you go down this route though, you can also see that oil costs are the least of your costs of ownership; so it is illogical that are people so sensitive to the oil price differences.
So for a particular OCI while Syn and Dino are both serviceable, at the end of the OCI, the synthetic "good enough" should still be better than the dino's "good enough".
Combine with the cost differential being very minor, then the costs synthetic may pay for it's costs.
The question you should ask, is is there any downside besides the cost for Synthetic? I think all the rumors about it causing leaks are busted, and everyone here will just about agree that if the two products were the same price they'd choose the synthetic.
Say the difference in oil costs is about $4.
That's about 1 gallon of gas or say 20miles. If over the whole OCI, and especially near the end of life, the synthetic stays slightly better and eeks you out 20 extra miles of distance then indeed it has paid for itself.
If you go down this route though, you can also see that oil costs are the least of your costs of ownership; so it is illogical that are people so sensitive to the oil price differences.
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