Date:         Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:04:00 -0700
Reply-To:     Keith Adams <keith_adams@TRANSCANADA.COM>
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From:         Keith Adams <keith_adams@TRANSCANADA.COM>
Organization: TransCanada
Subject:      Re: Winter oil questions...
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I thought T.O. had all that hot air from Ottawa keeping it warm?  After all, the
election *IS* decided by how T.O. votes, right?

All jokes aside...

I was going to pick up some Mobil 1 the other day, and they have 10W30, 15W40 (or is
it 15W50?) and 20W50 and was a little befuzzled about which one to get.  That brings
up another question - is running syn in my high mileage engine just going to cause
it to weep oil too much?  Or should I stick with dino?  I put Mobil 1 when I got it
(one oil change ago), cause that's all my Golf gets (and has got since new).

Anyways, with the current 20W50 Mobil 1 in it, I noticed the engine was much noisier
at startup yesterday morning (-13 or so) so I think I may switch to 10W30.  Now I
have to decide if it's dino or syn.

Keith Adams
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia

Doug Alcock wrote:

> >What I'm driving at is, I know full well that the 20W50 is too heavy for
> >winter in these parts.  Is the 10W30 a better choice, or is another weight
> >better?
>
> Hi Alan,
>
>      I use 10w40 here in the Great White North (Toronto, Canada).... though I'll
> bet
> my fellow countrymen in even colder climes (Ottawa, Winnipeg, Alberta etc) will
> argue that
> Toronto isn't cold at all.
>
> Cheers,
> Doug Alcock
> '84 Westy
> Toronto, Canada