PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post - kendall or rotella synthetic? mos2 lubromoly??

layback40 · #13 01-18-2012, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Hit Man X

I love oil threads!

I just purchase whatever is on sale. I use syn in the winter and usually dino in the summer. Sometimes I use syn all season. Just depends how I feel, sometimes I drink some.

Another (snake) oil thread?

We use the oil that we get for our cat scraper. I think its 10w40 dino.
It goes in just about everything including brothers C280 & moms 190E & all the diesels.
About the only thing its not used for is 2 stroke mix for the chainsaw.
Getting it in 50us gal drums makes it cheap. Dont know who makes it, dont really care!!
Oils is oils, there is way too much marketing hype about them !!!

You are welcome to your over marketed consumer products.
The average joe's car is not worked hard enough to warrant some wizz bang stuff !!
A scraper spends about 1/4 of its life WOT full power on the point of transmission stall. You can watch the EGT & engine/trans oil temps head for the red when ever you load in hard ground. When you have those conditions in your car, then you need to really worry about oil performance !!
Just get yourself a properly diesel rated oil.