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| View Poll Results: which do you prefer? | |||
| redline |
   
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4 | 16.67% |
| royal purple |
  
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0 | 0% |
| amsoil |
  
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4 | 16.67% |
| mobil 1 |
  
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12 | 50.00% |
| other(please specify) |
  
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4 | 16.67% |
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#1
10-20-2003, 10:48 PM
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synthetic oil poll
i need you guys choice of synthetic oil
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#2
10-20-2003, 11:40 PM
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Re: synthetic oil poll
Those are all good oils listed
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#3
10-21-2003, 12:37 AM
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I chose other....I chose castrol GTX...its great.
I have used Mobil 1 a few times but my dad usually gets Castrol GTX. I would like to know if Mobil 1 is better than Castrol????
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10-23-2003, 04:56 PM
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thanx ricochet....thats my other question...if they're all synthetic..then whats the difference between them??
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10-23-2003, 10:17 PM
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Amsoil for me always for ever
And NarutoRamen any synthetic based oil is going to be better than a mineral based oil to answer your question unless you are talking abou the castrol syntec then it would be a personal preferance like me I will never use anything excpet Amsoil for as long as I own a car/cars. It has prven itself to me first hand and that is enough for me 
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#10
10-28-2003, 11:42 PM
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Thanx whttg, but my question was what differs Mobil 1 from Castrol or Amsoil???
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#11
10-29-2003, 11:43 AM
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Right From The Start
Mobil1 is the original, and it has never let me down. Do mess with a great thing. All those oils do have street credit though.
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10-29-2003, 09:51 PM
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Re: Right From The Start
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11-01-2003, 10:25 AM
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I know that mobil one has manufacturer support, porshe and some other high end cars use it stock, I think corvettes do too. I think with such cars, they are less worried about the money the oil costs and more worried about how well it works. I think if they thought redline, or amsoil worked better, theyd use that. I haven't ever heard of people using it, and didnt even know what redline was until a few months ago.
 Buzz1167 Jon N
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#14
11-03-2003, 04:59 AM
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Re: synthetic oil poll
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You can't make assumptions that an oil is good just because a manufacturer uses it. You can probably safely assume that it's "satisfactory". Corporations often make deals or partnerships to promote their products hoping that consumers will make the assumption that you just did. It's a marketing tool.
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11-05-2003, 04:00 PM
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I also read an article on mobil one (Ill see if i can find it) that stated how mobil one was/is one of the only "pure synthetic" oils. The others all have some portions that aren't synthetic or something, Ill go look now.
Just to let you know, that wasn't the only reason (my first quote), but I wasn't caring enough to explain myself completely. Edit: I think this is it, "In 1999, the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus ruled in Mobil Oil’s challenge that Castrol’s “advertisements inaccurately represented that the current formulation of Syntec is synthetic”. Mobil’s position was “true synthetics had to be formulated from small molecules subject to a chemical reaction, not built from natural petroleum”. Castrol uses a “hydroprocessed mineral oil” (a Group III base stock) as the base stock in their Castrol Syntec. Previously, synthetic oil was accepted to mean the base stock was not conventional petroleum oil, regardless of refining process. This ruling changed all that. The most popular and best performing conventional base stock was formulated with polyalphaolefin (PAO), together with other non-petroleum products, such as ester, to achieve optimum performance and seal swell. This is in essence the base stock used by AMSOIL. People are more than a little surprised when they hear that many oils now on the market that are labeled as “synthetic” are really conventional oils. They are being advertised and labeled as synthetic oil, but are really specially refined conventional petroleum oil. People ask me how these companies can do that." HTH Buzz1167 Jon N
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