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    Worst Tires Ever?

    General brand tires that were OEM on a vehicle of mine are the Worst. Tires. Evar.
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    Mobil1 packing date in ultraviolet ink

    I checked a quart bottle of Redline 5w30 and it didn't have anything in UV. I'm having fun looking at my driver's license and credit cards, though.
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    Mobil1 packing date in ultraviolet ink

    "You wanna know about my mother? I'll tell you about my mother."
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    CIA applicants

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    How many times do you WOT a day?

    Many.
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    Mobil1 packing date in ultraviolet ink

    Yeah, that'll work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet#Black_lights
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    Mobil1 packing date in ultraviolet ink

    I don't know if everyone already knows this, but it looks like Mobil1 puts the packing date(?) on their quarts of oil in ink that is only (easily) visible under UV light. Here's a picture I took with my UV lamp. The printing reads "06/08/04 20:09 LN8 1142". I just saw "National Treasure" and I...
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    Any examples of explicit presumption of synthetic usage by manufacturers?

    Yes, VW, for their 1.8T engines. The spec that they give for the oils is only met by synthetics (as of yet).
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    PET Resins for Oil Containers

    I don't see much future in BITOG. We will finally be able to see which oil is best right on the auto-mart shelves! Maybe some oil companies would start coloring their oils. Red for performance, green for the environment, blue for smokers. Or maybe they'd go Japan-style and make the finished...
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    Blending Different "Weights" of Oils

    Thank you for another interesting article. Is the formula for predicting the viscosity of a mix of two (or more) viscosities just a straight-up average, or is it trickier, like figuring out the octane of a mix of 93 and 87? [ September 04, 2004, 02:55 PM: Message edited by: Gerret ]
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    New computer hard drive lubricant may have automotive applications

    New computer hard drive lubricant means longer-lasting hard drives. At the end of the article it mentions that the new lubricant chemistry may have automotive applications. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-08/acs-hd081604.php
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    Synthetic only cars

    I suspect that a synth with esters would make a nice AutoRX rinse oil e.g. Redline or Motul. The point of the rinse is to suspend the softened crud. I suspect that the reason Dino was specified was that maybe a PAO synth doesn't contain enough polar molecules to act as a detergent and...
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    Amsoil and Redline

    Thanks, Motorbike. Interesting to read Redline's angle on it, although not very surprising. Coke says Diet Pepsi not as good as advertised. Film at 11.
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    10,000 mile (16,000 km) oci

    1500 miles per week is only 9MPH. Learn to pedal in your sleep and you can do that on a bicycle!
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    Fear my scientific oil data!

    Cool!
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    New VW Touareg

    You don't want to change your oil too soon the first time, because you want your rings to seat.
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    I think that we can get there !!!

    What is supercritical water?
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    Esters make oil more electrically conductive?

    Esters, being polar, tend to squeeze between gasket and sealing surface more than non-polar oils.
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    N00bie here....which air filter for my '03 Jetta Wolfsburg?

    Pezzy669 and Ken2 make good points. Vacuum the crap out of your snow-screen monthly and use an OEM (or other high-quality) air filter. As VAG (VW Audi Group) product owners, we are lucky that VAG has such good OEM suppliers (mostly).
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    Confused by VW's recommendation for 1.8t

    Motul 8100 X-cess 5W40 claims that it meets VW 502.00, and it is available in NA (via mail-order). http://www.motul.com/redirectuk.asp?N=1.06.02.05
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