2021 Outback Limited 2.5L - 🍦The Ice Cream Man🍦
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Well after spending way too much time looking through the seemingly endless (and sometimes brainless) discussions over atBobisTheOilGuy.com over the past couple days and I thought I'd start up some talk here other than in the Favorite Oil poll.
Anyway for me I've always been a fan of Castrol petroleum oils although not of Castrol Syntec. I have used Castrol Semi-Syn although I've actually read reports that the standard Castrol GTX outperforms Semi-Syn as well as Syntec is most categories. That being said there are also many reports that show that Castrol GTX High Mileage outperforms the standard GTX. Blah Blah Blah... anyway I'll stick to my dino guns with Castrols petro oils.
As far as synthetic's go, I've been pretty conflicted as of late. The two leading synthetic oil producers are Mobil 1 and AMSOIL, here's my take on the two:
1. Mobil 1 is a TRUE full synthetic, one of the cheapest and most readily available oils on the market today. Comes as a factory fill in many higher end cars, endorsed and commended by many.
2. AMSOIL is one of the first synthetic oils, IT IS NOT a True full synthetic (as many tests show) although it outpeforms Mobil 1 and every other oil in about every category. More expensive than most oils (including Mobil 1) and somewhat hard to find. AMSOIL users typically stand religiously behind the product, other AMSOIL products (filters, other lubes) are of the highest quality available.
Chat on about whatever oil related stuff you want, feel free to reference or bring in any info form Bob's site as well
Anyway for me I've always been a fan of Castrol petroleum oils although not of Castrol Syntec. I have used Castrol Semi-Syn although I've actually read reports that the standard Castrol GTX outperforms Semi-Syn as well as Syntec is most categories. That being said there are also many reports that show that Castrol GTX High Mileage outperforms the standard GTX. Blah Blah Blah... anyway I'll stick to my dino guns with Castrols petro oils.
As far as synthetic's go, I've been pretty conflicted as of late. The two leading synthetic oil producers are Mobil 1 and AMSOIL, here's my take on the two:
1. Mobil 1 is a TRUE full synthetic, one of the cheapest and most readily available oils on the market today. Comes as a factory fill in many higher end cars, endorsed and commended by many.
2. AMSOIL is one of the first synthetic oils, IT IS NOT a True full synthetic (as many tests show) although it outpeforms Mobil 1 and every other oil in about every category. More expensive than most oils (including Mobil 1) and somewhat hard to find. AMSOIL users typically stand religiously behind the product, other AMSOIL products (filters, other lubes) are of the highest quality available.
Chat on about whatever oil related stuff you want, feel free to reference or bring in any info form Bob's site as well