Originally Posted by ekpolk
Originally Posted by StevieC
... It should put the Group 3 / 4 debate to rest.
GLWT...
Waaaaaay to much OCD (oil compulsive disorder) here!
IMO, one of the reasons this issue took on the life it still has, is the whiff of fraud (real or perceived) that came with the Castrol Syntec vs Mobil-1 arguments of 15-20 years ago. That was confounded and compounded by the essentially failed litigation (much in the administrative law world) between Exxon-Mobil and Castrol. And this wound festers on to this day. Add in understandable proprietary secrecy and the fact that most oils now are mixtures of various classes of base oils, and we've got a "problem" that will seemingly never go away.
So, is it a matter of:
Or:
Yes it still fester to this day and why I won't buy Castrol products.
Originally Posted by StevieC
... It should put the Group 3 / 4 debate to rest.
GLWT...
IMO, one of the reasons this issue took on the life it still has, is the whiff of fraud (real or perceived) that came with the Castrol Syntec vs Mobil-1 arguments of 15-20 years ago. That was confounded and compounded by the essentially failed litigation (much in the administrative law world) between Exxon-Mobil and Castrol. And this wound festers on to this day. Add in understandable proprietary secrecy and the fact that most oils now are mixtures of various classes of base oils, and we've got a "problem" that will seemingly never go away.
So, is it a matter of:
Or:
Yes it still fester to this day and why I won't buy Castrol products.