I'm just bored with nothing to do right now at work, so I'm posting my thoughts...
I have been on a quest to find the best synthetic oil possible for my precious little turbo engine. This obsession only worsened a thousand-fold after discovering BITOG.
I get all excited when I'm "just" a few weeks due for an oil change. Is this bad? Is this a sign that I've been bit by the BITOG bug?
I'll be getting my second UOA on my '02 turbo Passat in a few weeks. It's been almost 3 years since the first UOA and I've put nothing but GC in my engine for the past two or so years. The oil this time around will be GC with about 5500 miles on it. I will have about 102k miles on the engine. If this 2nd UOA still shows that there's water present in the sample then I'll replace the PCV/breather system. I didn't have the PCV worked on a few years back because I question the validity of the finding of water in that sample... not because I question Blackstone's methods, but because my sample vial was my used soda bottle! Here's a link to my first UOA with Mobil 0w40.
http://theoildrop.server101.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=UBB3&Number=238266
Regardless of what my next UOA shows, I'll be discontinuing GC for at least the next 10k miles because I'm out of GC, my Autozone stopped carrying it, and I recently acquired 12 quarts of Valvoline Synpower 5w40. Once that's gone, I'll either revert back to Mobil 0w40 or if Autozone re-stocks GC again then I will welcome the elves back into my life.
<-- evil GC elf
I have been on a quest to find the best synthetic oil possible for my precious little turbo engine. This obsession only worsened a thousand-fold after discovering BITOG.
I get all excited when I'm "just" a few weeks due for an oil change. Is this bad? Is this a sign that I've been bit by the BITOG bug?
I'll be getting my second UOA on my '02 turbo Passat in a few weeks. It's been almost 3 years since the first UOA and I've put nothing but GC in my engine for the past two or so years. The oil this time around will be GC with about 5500 miles on it. I will have about 102k miles on the engine. If this 2nd UOA still shows that there's water present in the sample then I'll replace the PCV/breather system. I didn't have the PCV worked on a few years back because I question the validity of the finding of water in that sample... not because I question Blackstone's methods, but because my sample vial was my used soda bottle! Here's a link to my first UOA with Mobil 0w40.
http://theoildrop.server101.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=UBB3&Number=238266
Regardless of what my next UOA shows, I'll be discontinuing GC for at least the next 10k miles because I'm out of GC, my Autozone stopped carrying it, and I recently acquired 12 quarts of Valvoline Synpower 5w40. Once that's gone, I'll either revert back to Mobil 0w40 or if Autozone re-stocks GC again then I will welcome the elves back into my life.