Huh? Calm down man, I was agreeing with you! The Mobil1 site is a good resource as you said. I meant that there are benefits across the entire temperature range, not just at extreme temperatures. That's all. I apologize if you took the comment to read a web page directed at you as some sort of a personal attack and not a general suggestion.

 

Fake oil and fake *****.Now that's a combination I like?

 

With all the fake stuff - you'd better read the label or be surprised - especially with the fake *****.

 

I love the synthetic stuff.Seems to hold up longer.The synthetic oil is pretty good also

 

I love the synthetic stuff.It seems to hold up
Longer.I like synthetic oil to.

 

Sorry for double post. Stupid phone.

 

I use cheapest oil from Advance auto.
I was repairing engines for 17 years.
99% of engines are "killed" by their owners.

 

Fun looking for the label ......LOL

 

Thanks for the clarification, Salad. I guess I'm getting a little sensitive to the guys (mostly on other forums) that don't contribute much and just sit back and jump on people with their hype-technical snotty remarks.

 

"""""99% of engines are "killed" by their owners. """"""

Truer words have never been said!

 

Just bought a 2000 Cherokee Limited with 103,000 on the truck and 15K on the reman Jasper engine. The guy I bought it from said he used 5w-30 synthetic.... when I asked him he said it was a myth that you could not change back to conventional. Sooo... right, wrong and if ok, is there a process to move this over?

Thanks.

 

Why would you? Winter's coming!

Anyway no there is no process. There hasn't been for about twenty years. You just change the oil.

 

Thanks for the reply... it would be cheaper and I've never used a synthetic oil. As for process I read about folks having to mix and blend when going from conventional to syn so I didn't know if the same was true for the reverse.

 

No, that's an old approach that's no longer true (not sure if it actually ever was)

 

Not that I recall, and I was turning wrenches back when Mobil 1 and Amsoil were still in diapers, the only synth's available.
A lot of these untruths were actually started and perpetuated by the dino oil companies, remember they spent about 20 years trying to discredit synthetic oils instead of marketing one of their own, lol. The <cue ominous voice> Long-And-Expensive-Switchover© along with the "you can never switch back" that occasionally surfaces are just remnants that anti-marketing effort.
They are basically interchangeable. You can mix synth with dino if you want to, nothing evil will happen. (other than giving up some properties of the synthetic)