Re: [all] synthetic oil

[Iain Mannix <mannix@secretignition.com>]

At 9:10 PM +0000 08/01/1998, Ryan Schuermann wrote:
>you all have made very good points,let me now defend myself.
>Partly due to ignorance, or lack of knowledge there of, I was in the
>middle of nowhere Alabama, and none of the gas station had Synthetic
>oil, I was scared to mix a few quarts of natural stuff,

Don't worry about putting normal oil in with synthetic - all the synthetics
I have used(Redline, Amsoil, Valvoline, Mobil1) are "fully compatible" with
other oils.  Think it has something to do with SFI ratings or whatnot.

 (I fled to
>Canada during the Jiffy-Lube draft). The oil light was not coming on,
>the car was running exceptionally cool, what else could be wrong
>besides an improper dipstick, who knows if he slapped one on from a
>subaru or a honda or who knws what. The light did start to blink on
>turns and as soon as i pulled in the driveway near my home.

There was some oil in there, then.  Enough that the pressure never dropped,
except in turns near home, right?

>
>Come to find out adding oil would have done nothing to my car,
>possibly even damaging it as Ive had natural oil break down and
>seperate and warp my Jetta's head.

Who told you this?  I've never heard of motor oil causing a warped head -
warped heads are the result of overheating, broken studs or improperly
torqued studs/bolts.  I sincerely doubt that oil caused your Jetta's head
to warp - overheating because there was no oil present, maybe.

I added oil the next morning, 3
>quarts, went strait through to the cement! I have a serious oil leak
>somewhere, the engine bay is spotless and I sure as heck can't get
>under the car. (2" from ground). All I know is I drove at least
>600miles with a very very small ammout of synthetic in the car and
>yeah it might have worn its life down a bit, but it's running strong,

If the oil light only came on around corners, it probably had 2-3 quarts in
it.  My Audi's oil light came on once under hard braking, it was exactly
one quart low.


>and im almost positive hadit been natural oil I would have been
>driving a Flaming Rieger Scirocco...

Huh.  OK:).

>
>Ryan
>fix: as soon as i can take it to a shop and get it on the lift, i
>suspect an oil hose or something with a big hole in it, nothing
>major as it wasnt leaking before the trip.

What engine does it have?  Does it have an oil cooler?  Don't know.  Well,
even if it has an oil cooler, and the oil went straight to the ground, it
was not leaking out of a hose(if you put oil into an engine with an oil
cooler, it won't leak out a cooler hose until you start it).  I can't think
for the life of me where it might be leaking from, aside from drainplugs.
I am not aware of any oil hoses on an 8v.  Don't know!  Good luck!


I.Mannix


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