Originally Posted By: Clevy
So I now only concern myself with formal approvals and couldn't care less what the formula contains.
With of course some ceratec for luck
i'll always care about what the formula contains.
always.
following directions is fine, esp if it's porsche because cafe is not their prime directive,long life protection is; but isn't it nice to know why you're following those directions? okay, that's clearly not for everyone. we see people getting hung up hard on numerical values without any concept of relativity- ie how those numbers relate in the real world. people would dump out a mistakenly installed, fresh pan of 5w30 in their 5w20 recommended application, or 10w30 in their 5w30 recommended app in the middle of July because it's not the 'correct number' lol. they'll toss the oil down the drain and repurchase or force the quicky lube to replace it. yeah, that makes sense.
meanwhile in the real world, the imagined detriments remain imaginary.
they'll never question why their manual has only one recommended grade, whilst the rest of the world has multiple grtades based on conditions- they'll never know tha's the case to even question it. to them the manual says one thing, period. end of discussion, i'm checking out now.
they would rather order the 'correct' oil from mars, rather than run something with a different 'number' that they had a million free gallons of. i'm no advocating running an inadequate or inappropriate lube, but without you knowing and making those distinction, the manufacturer or their engieers arent going to give you a free personalized consultation; you have to find out that 5w30 in a 5w20 app in July will be okay, if not offer better protection- yourself. that requires thinking-something unfortunately many people have talked themselves out of because how could they ever understand what they might need to know, they're not a professional. we can't be specialists in a day, but we can learn what we need to learn if you apply yourself enough. i dont need to be a trained chef to make a wicked meal, or to tell when something tastes like [censored], or to identify herbs/ingredients. could you imagine telling someone that their taste is invalid because they're not a chef and that their identification of a certain herb or spice is erroneous because it hasn't been examined by GC or confirmed by a trained chef? would you further tell them that even trying to make the distinction is an insult to professional chefs worldwide because they're playing chef? of course not. to do so would be the height of pretension, would it not?
i'm a strong proponent of autodidaction; strong enough to not be intimidated by any subject, but humble enough to realise the scope of knowledge in any given 'field of study'
Originally Posted By: Provi
I heard a rumor that VWB 5w-30 is 94% synthetic.
i read on a red lobster bathroom wall that it was more like ten thousand percent gr IIX with a million parts per hundred of tri-nuclear moly. haw haw haw
