Re: Oil cooled?

["Steve Nash" <nashflr@erols.com>]

When I made the switch in the wife's car it started running cooler oil temps
by about 10 deg.

steve
1997 GLX  wife's ride
1989 M3  my toy

----- Original Message -----
From: John A. Kilpatrick <john@hypergeek.net>
To: Jetta GLX Mailing List <jettaglx@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 7:49 PM
Subject: Oil cooled?


>
> O.K., so I annouce I'm going to costco to get some Mobil 1, and I get
> a whole lecture from a co-worker about how synthetic oil is evil since
> it does not carry heat and thus does not provide any cooling, which is
> supposedly needs to, and that if your car has a oil cooler (which I don't
> think the VR6 does) then it is even worse.
>
> So the question: is synthetic good or bad for a VR6?
>
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