Need Oil?

[Byots]

I used to swear by Mobil 1, but have recently seen a 4 year old 40,000 mile Honda Accord driven by a senior citizen experience worn rod bearings and scuffed cylinder walls (using Mobile 1). Also, my Audi has developed what I'm quite sure is piston slap under certain conditions after 50,000 miles, again using Mobil 1. All new oils that were made to work with catalytic converter equipped cars are crap. We didn't experience these types of problems to such a degree with the oil used years ago when I was a kid, even beating the hell out of my cars.

[CSX 4027]

Mobil One has gone thru many reformulations.
According to our testing and by speaking with them, we have concluded that they used to be great but, during the late 90's and early 2000's they were less than great and many swore off, at and against but now, they are back in the good category. I had 75,000 miles on a F150 5.4 that was clean as a whistle on Mobil 1 changed every 3000 and running strong on the modified Lightning motor with 25000 miles changed every 3000.
On a modern motor, as long as you don't go extended intervals, I am not sure any of todays oils will make a difference plus or minus minutia no matter what they claim. Piston slap and other related issues I would be are more a mfg issue than oil.

[Ed Csoltko]

I hate to change the subject matter of my post, so again:

I have 19 quarts of 20W-50 Castrol GTX oil I can't use. Anyone in Austin interested, call me at 512-288-0446.

[Ed Csoltko]

The 19 quarts of 20W-50 Castrol GTX oil has been sold to David Kidwell.