Anybody better than Blackstone out there for OUAs?
Anybody better than Blackstone out there for OUAs?
Some of the posts about ppl never changing their oil and moving about with their lives had me think about this:
Just think about all the old push mowers out there in regular use that have been around since the Clinton administration and never had their oil changed, before these 'fancy' paper air filters lol.
I briefly worked at a Dodge dealer that had an older customer with an LH platform car (intrepid or concorde can't remember) that had the dealer regularly service it. They never once removed the drain plug on it, just change the filter and top up with about a 1qt or so of full synthetic. The car had well over 100k on it and was clean and ran like new.
My 31 yr old Crafstman has a paper air filter. Nothing new here.
It happened when manufacturers started paying for oil changes, it's not a coincidence that sludged engines became so commonplace simultaneously.
Tom_Spangler said:Anybody better than Blackstone out there for OUAs?
I could recommend POLARIS. I hear they are pretty decent. Wink wink.
I once worked with a Mobile rep. He said they had a Mercedes at their HQ as a pool car. Factory Mobil 1 fill, never changed. Filter occasionally changed. The car had over 230,000 miles on the factory oil. No oil use, no engine repairs.
GM has over 100 (maybe over 200, I forget) parameters that calculate the oil change interval. I have 129,000 miles on my 2012 Equinox going only by the recommended interval on the dash. I often use Mobil 1, but I think any quality synthetic would give us the same result. No oil usage, either.
To meet Dexos spec, oil must be part synthetic. Some part synthetic oils are 99% conventional and 1% synthetic. I prefer full synthetic with the newer cars.
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