98MaxVancouver

Just read an interesting article over at CanadianDriver.com regarding synthetic oils. The author of the article used a product called Motrlube(Calgary based synthetic manufacturer) and went 100,000km between oil changes. He only changed the filter ONCE a year

Each time the filter was changed he sent a sample of the oil off for analysis and the results always came back as "do not change the oil".

Perhaps someone can point him the direction of this board and get him to submit his oil analysis for the spreadsheet.

Anyhow, has anyone here ever heard of this Motrlube product? Or have any experience with it that they'd like to share?

Cheers,

Al

Frank Fontaine

Such a product is a miracle product just like the "Abdomenizer," where you just wear an electrified belt and a few weeks later you have six-pack abs.

If you operate your car in a lab that makes microchips, you can probably use dino oil and run it for the equivalent of 1,000,000 miles with no detrimental effects. Last time I was in Canada there was dust and dirt up there, so to go 62,000 miles without an oil change is pretty foolish imho. Regardless of dino or synthetic, dirt is a major enemy. Why try to figure out at what point the oil fails, just change it regularly. Whether it's 5k or 10k is really just splitting hairs, but one can be pretty confident that if the oil is changed every 5k, though that may be too often, it is adequate, and oil is cheap enough anyway until it reaches $60/barrel....

optimus1

He is probably running additional filtering equipment, Amsoil also, sells such a device, this extra fine filtering removes particles down to 1 micron; and cycles the complete sump every 4 hours of driving ... Also, synthetics don't break down, they just become over contaminated with dirt ... That should be the only reason to change synthetics, due to the dirt contamination, that is ...

BrianV

iTrader: (9)

Amsoil's 0W-30 says change interval is 35,000 miles. I put it in my Maxima and checked it after 3000 miles and it looked brand new. Mobil-1 never looked that way. At any rate, I took it out at 5000 and put new 0w-30 in and even at 5k it looked brand new, that light brown/caramel color.