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Don't you just love all the new oil formulas? I mean there is oil for new, old, truck, car, high mileage, no mileage. Hell now it's made just for start up, next thing will be gourmet oil "your car will love the taste and pur like a kitten"

I bet if you looked all these "new" formulas are actaully food coloring or something :rolleyes:

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Amsoil and Mobil are about the same in my book.  Neither are true synthetic though.  If you not running weird fuels or very high load mobil is more than enough.

I always thought that BOTH were true full synthetic or at least the Amsoil. Could you please explain or show us more ??? God BLess.

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I always thought that BOTH were true full synthetic or at least the Amsoil. Could you please explain or show us more ??? God BLess.

True synthetics are not made from petrol. Mobil and amsoil are both made from ground oil. They are very highly refined though and considered a hydrocracked oil. If your talking very high end performance though... garbage in garbage out.

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What is Use is Schaeffer 7000. Much better than Mobil 1 and AMsoil in my book. My great uncle is also a rep and tests oils all the time. I got the Schaeffer 39.99 for a case of 12. As soon as I put it in, I noticed a smoother idle when in Drive.

ALso use their atf too.

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The Mobile site says

"Mobil 1 Extended Performance has a unique formulation with boosted level of protection and performance. These formulations with the Advanced SuperSyn System contain 50 percent more SuperSyn, 36 percent more anti-wear additives, and 37 percent more cleaning agents than the current Mobil 1. "

Hmmm, if they added 50% more synth, 36% more addtives and 37% more detergents - makes me wonder what's the real potency of the original Mobil 1!

I will be trying out the Shell Rotella T Synthetic, a heavy-duty synth oil that's well recommended for turbo engine over at the bobstheoilguy.com forum. Nice price, too - just $13 for a 4 liter jug at Wal-mart.

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True synthetics are not made from petrol. Mobil and amsoil are both made from ground oil. They are very highly refined though and considered a hydrocracked oil. If your talking very high end performance though... garbage in garbage out.

Are you sure about Amsoil not having synthetic base stock ?? They advertise and claim that they are ALL synthetic including the base stock. God BLess. :)

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The Mobile site says

"Mobil 1 Extended Performance has a unique formulation with boosted level of protection and performance. These formulations with the Advanced SuperSyn System contain 50 percent more SuperSyn, 36 percent more anti-wear additives, and 37 percent more cleaning agents than the current Mobil 1. "

Hmmm, if they added 50% more synth, 36% more addtives and 37% more detergents - makes me wonder what's the real potency of the original Mobil 1!

I will be trying out the Shell Rotella T Synthetic, a heavy-duty synth oil that's well recommended for turbo engine over at the bobstheoilguy.com forum. Nice price, too - just $13 for a 4 liter jug at Wal-mart.

sweet tip! $5 a 1/4 for mobil is butt!

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Mobile says the same thing. There was a case in 1999 about what can legally be called syn. Amsoil series 2000 may be full syn, but the regular stuff is not.

Are you sure about Amsoil not having synthetic base stock ?? They advertise and claim that they are ALL synthetic including the base stock. God BLess. :)

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