IT doesn't have a sell by date but it is in a sealed canister as well and
its not exposed to/in your (internally, no offence intended) dirty engine.
If you (as with all oils, even your olive and sunflower kitchen oils) expose
oil to air the oil will oxidize and the chains will be boken up. Due to that
the lubricating quality of your oil gets worse. Same, just slightly
different <grin> goes for your additives. Plus as with the additives, they
will disolve the sludge over the winter/storage time and will be loaded with
that crap. Should you run the engine now for a longer period, your filter
will quickly soot up.
Gernot
> ----------
> From: glite[SMTP:glite@eos.net]
> Reply To: glite
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 1998 5:36 PM
> To: 'TR Liste'
> Cc: 'Steinbeck Michael'
> Subject: Re: Winter Storage / Oil Change again in the Spring?
>
>
> Gernot Vonhoegen wrote:
> <snip>
> > If you change the oil you will have to change it again when you take the
> car
> > out of storage as the additives will have aged by that time.
>
> If I can display my ignorance. I have often been told that after
> changing the oil before storage in the fall one must again change the
> oil before spring start-up. Why?
> The stuff I by doesn't have a "sell by" date.
>
> george leicht, TR6, TR3
>
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