"Backyard Mechanic" <pettyfog@yaywho.com> wrote in message
> If someone drives only five to ten minutes average per cold startup, the
> result will eventually, indeed, be chocolate pudding..the 'chocolate'
> part being due to condensated water not 'boiled out'and probable engine
> damage as a result.. and ANY synthetic a waste of money .

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This was not her problem. She drove long miles at highway speed.
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> For long change intervals, Mobil 1 works every bit as well as needed...
> and you can buy it anywhere, cheaper. Change filters at 5000.

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I don't presently use synthetics, and if I did I would change oil
and filter at 3000 miles, just like I do now. Assurance that you can
get away with long change intervals is wasted on me. I will not likely
ever follow that path.

She ran hers to 15,000 miles between changes. No glycol contamination,
no condensation.....just Amsoil. And, as it was her car, and her
philosophy,
I didn't choose to interfere.