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03-25-2013, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by fnkngrv

So getting 15k miles out of a single filter and round of AMSOIL synth is waste of money? On the contrary it will take some smokin good deals to get a better bang for the buck, but I digress seeing as how there are too many oil threads on this forum and others.

Since the advantage of running synthetics is under adverse conditions, do you really want to leave a filter in for 15k mils under those conditions?
What makes you think that there is any less "blow by", which is the cause of most contaminants, with synthetics ?

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