Re: a corrected little math for the inexpensive oil people

Posted by Ludwig - my limited experience on February 11, 2003 at 06:05:04 from (141.154.121.183):

In Reply to: a corrected little math for the inexpensive oil people posted by Lew on February 10, 2003 at 21:11:01:

In early January I found that our Mercedes diesel car wouldn't start without the blockheater running for prolonged periods because of the cold. For reference we had a long period of temps around 0. So I had the 15-40 conventional oil taken out and 10-30 synthetic put in.
Before the swap the car would never start below 20 without heating. After the swap it would start down to about 5 degrees and only require about 10 minutes of heating down to about 0. Below 0 at least half an hour of heating was due.

I plan to have the car on a 10k change schedule, unfortunately its got other issues so I won't be keeping it past this summer, but I was amazed at the short term benefits of the synthetic. It also appears to be leaking less oil than it did with conventional,(was leaking about 1/2qt a month) but I really need another couple months running before I can confirm that.

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