Not a professional mechanic, but my feeling is synthetics are
probably not needed when everything is going right. But some time
over the car's lifetime, something is probably going to go
wrong. Maybe it will overheat. Maybe someone will run it a little
low on oil. Maybe life's emergencies will cause the oil change to be
put off for a while. When those things happen, I'd rather have the
synthetic in there. Unfortunately, I can't predict which day that
will be, so I consider the synthetic to be insurance.
-Steve Trovato
strovato@optonline.net
At 11:52 PM 10/21/2008, Karl Vacek wrote:
>The author also said (and I tend to believe this even though I'm still using
>synthetic for now) that synthetic is really a waste on most cars in typical
>use, because the additive packages in regular oils are so good today, and
>changing at 3,000 miles (which I do with the synthetic anyway) gives so much
>protection that synthetic just can't do any better.
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