Poll: Which FULLy synthetic oil do you use?

[TheSilkySmooth]

Originally Posted by talnlnky

ok... So here's the million dollar question....

Do all the oils sold in the US under "synthetic" that are actually these API group 3 oils.... do they protect engines any better than the normal oil that we would buy for a fraction of the price.

Should i go with a "normal" oil that costs me $2.xx - $3.xx a quart versus a castrol/penzoil/whatever for $6.xx a quart?

I've been under the belief that the $6.00/qt oils do in fact last longer, and have better cleaning/filtering properties.... is this not true?

I don't really care if my oil is a "true" synthetic or not.. I just care if the extra few dollars I spend actually nets ANY advantage/protection.

I have not seen any documented performance advantage that the "fake" synthetic oils sold in the USA ( Platinum, mobil-1, Syntec) have over a SM GF4 mineral oil (which are now semi-synthetic even though they dont say so). They may prove a bit better in the frozen north due to less heavy paraffins, and the Platinum has Honda HT06 approval for Honda Turbo use. I dislike Pennzoil so - noyt for me. personally after killing ALL my engines to early in the past 5 years with this crap US spec oils, I would only run the real stuff imported from Europe: Total(ELF), Motul, Fuchs, Pentosin, Haven't tried Amsoil yet. May give the ATM blue cap Amsoil a try, Better to give my $$ to the good ole USofA other than the EU.