Date:         Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:02:18 -0700
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
Organization: The Cobalt Group
Subject:      Oil analysis group purchace
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I just ordered a couple more kits from Herguth and asked about
discounts.  at 50 you get 30% off, 100 or more 40% off.  They also offer
email results, including a color bar graph, in PDF format.  Anyone who
wants to order a kit can call Linda at 888 437-4884 x 3012 and get yours
for $20, which includes the shipping both ways.

Any interest in a group purchase?  If we could order 100 they would cost
members about $15 including postage and a small handling fee to someone
who mails them out. They also sell a slick database program for
monitoring fleets that tracks trends.  If there is enough interest I, or
someone, could set up this database and the data would also be available
to the whole group.  This could be really valuable information since you
log oil brand, change frequency, mileage, etc.

Someone like William Fryer who is concerned about his engine at 165,000
miles could have actually tracked his analysis trends, or now look at
the combined list historical data and see the results for that mileage.

Maybe this is too much trouble for most of us, but I thought I'd throw
it out for comment.

Personally, I think every engine should have an oil analysis every
50,000 miles, and those of you using synthetic oils for megabuck$ could
probably save money not changing oil so often if you tested every 5000
miles or so!

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Stuart MacMillan
Manager, Case Program
800-909-8244 ext. 8208
Fax: 206-269-6360

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