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<blockquote data-quote="AnGeLiCdEmOn108" data-source="post: 207465" data-attributes="member: 26"><p><span style="color: black">Based on my own experience and also after reading some articles from the web, cars after certain number years tend to have sludge build up. Due to wear and tear, there might be some hairline gaps between the piston rings and gaskets. Fully syntactic oil is very thin/low in viscosity and they easily get through these gaps and get burned. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black">My car's previous owner was using semi syntactic oil and when I bought over I left my car to my in a "so called trust worthy mechanic" for 1st service in Senawang. He flushed and replaced to some oil called Royal Purple with very low viscosity. Engine oil started to burn and I had to top up so many</span><span style="color: black"> litres</span><span style="color: black"> of oil. Again trusting this guy, I did a top overhaul. He also flushed my gear box which you are not supposed to do at all. I had to overhaul my gearbox as well. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black">Anyway morale of the story, full syntatic has very low viscosity and be careful before using it especially in our Malaysian weather. Hope my explanation helps...</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black">Cheers...</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnGeLiCdEmOn108, post: 207465, member: 26"] [COLOR=black]Based on my own experience and also after reading some articles from the web, cars after certain number years tend to have sludge build up. Due to wear and tear, there might be some hairline gaps between the piston rings and gaskets. Fully syntactic oil is very thin/low in viscosity and they easily get through these gaps and get burned. [/COLOR] [COLOR=black] [/COLOR] [COLOR=black]My car's previous owner was using semi syntactic oil and when I bought over I left my car to my in a "so called trust worthy mechanic" for 1st service in Senawang. He flushed and replaced to some oil called Royal Purple with very low viscosity. Engine oil started to burn and I had to top up so many[/COLOR][COLOR=black] litres[/COLOR][COLOR=black] of oil. Again trusting this guy, I did a top overhaul. He also flushed my gear box which you are not supposed to do at all. I had to overhaul my gearbox as well. [/COLOR] [COLOR=black] [/COLOR] [COLOR=black]Anyway morale of the story, full syntatic has very low viscosity and be careful before using it especially in our Malaysian weather. Hope my explanation helps...[/COLOR] [COLOR=black] [/COLOR] [COLOR=black]Cheers...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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