Negative side effects of switching to synthetic?

[SRR2]

This is nothing more than wishful thinking. I googled this stuff and found copious amounts of puffery and not a shred of objective evidence. The only reasonable conclusion is that this stuff falls into the same category as fuel line magnets and SOLID STAINLESS STEEL [sic] gizmos that go into the air intake plumbing. NONE of this crap works! But the gullible public, always willing to follow their faith instead of science (... gee, this sounds just like the creationism ..er... intelligent design argument) will continue to plunk their money down and make millionaires of scammer after scammer.

As far as your mechanic's "testing". Give us a break. There's NOTHING the least bit scientific or reproducible about this kind of "evidence". I'm pretty sure that your mechanic hasn't much of a grasp on running controlled tests that generate statistically-significant results. Basically, he's welcome to his opinion (how much does he make on a bottle, by the way?) but please don't try to pass this off as anything more than a fairy tale.

And, I have to give you credit... This really cracked me up -- "I have yet to see one US product that is better in quality than German one." Uh, sure. Guess you never wiped your butt with Charmin, eh? Heh heh.

[Jason]

I appreciate that.

[632 Regal]

the angle, contrast and background just look soo good... still jealous.

[Interceptor]

claims as to repairing engine ring sealing or oil leak stopping, it is sold as a friction and wear reducing additive only, which means that on a new or low mileage motor it may reduce the wear that takes place over the long term. They claim TUV testing to back up their claims. Again, its not a sealing product. The most likely reason that your car stopped leaking is because the higher level of detergent in the synthetics cleaned out the gunk that was sealing up areas and then it started leaking, and after some time the seal swelling agents that are present in all modern synthetic finally swelled the seals up enough that they stopped leaking. I'm starting to think its time that i left this board.

Why would you leave? I appologize if I offended you, but I don't see how? Why is everyone so touchy these days? If my posting makes other people want to leave the board, then I should leave.

On a more on-topic note - why did the leak stop IMMEDIATELY after adding (and going thru the break-in procedure of) the additive? This is not a retorical question, and I would really like to know.

[632 Regal]

coincidence most likely

[Interceptor]

coincidence most likely

Why don't you reply to the follow-up but rather to the main post? It's very hard to follow the discussion this way

There is a smaller REPLY button in the lower right corner of the follow-up which posts a reply to that specific follow-up.

[uscharalph]

Why don't you reply to the follow-up but rather to the main post? It's very hard to follow the discussion this way

There is a smaller REPLY button in the lower right corner of the follow-up which posts a reply to that specific follow-up.

Yeah I couldn't figure out what Jeff was talking about either.

[dacoyote]

Yeah I couldn't figure out what Jeff was talking about either.

I cannot figure out that I am talking about half the time...

anyone wanta come help me work on the colt? (free beer)

-Charles

[Interceptor]

Yeah I couldn't figure out what Jeff was talking about either.

Maybe that's the point

[632 Regal]

how do you guys view these threads? What mode do you use, im always lost...lol