03-12-2014, 07:25 AM | #1 |
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Castrol Edge is it good
Has anyone used Castro Edge and had any issues. What's your take on the quality of this brand.
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03-12-2014, 09:40 AM | #2 |
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Its ok, but it is no Amsoil or Redline
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03-12-2014, 02:36 PM | #3 |
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It will do just fine. If you want to geek out on oil and OCIs and UOAs go spend some time on BITOG.
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03-12-2014, 04:22 PM | #4 |
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You could't notice a difference in a car you were driving with Amsoil, Castrol, or Redline. Save your pennies, there is a thread on here that says Pennzoil Platinum or Ultra offers the best protection. It beats Royal Purple, Amsoil, Redline, and Mobile One.
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03-12-2014, 04:24 PM | #5 |
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It's what all the BMW M-series cars from BMW use.
Does that make it any good? ....... eh. I'd run it, but there's nothing that's going to make me buy it over another brand. |
03-12-2014, 05:46 PM | #6 |
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"It" refers to Pennzoil, Mobile 1,??? You use "it" four times, hard enough to understand some post. Four "its" is about as vague as one could get.
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03-12-2014, 07:01 PM | #7 |
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Wouldn't use it in my lawn mower.
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03-12-2014, 09:33 PM | #8 |
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03-13-2014, 08:57 AM | #9 |
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03-13-2014, 09:13 AM | #10 |
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Actually there is a huge difference between Amsoil vs stock oil and Mobil 1 and don't talk about Amsoil dominator which shows performance improvements over even Amsoil signature series. My SS accelerates quicker and there is a slight torque improvement. Don't know if it's because I went from 5w30 to 10w 30 but I freaking love this dominator stuff. Too bad my cats don't.
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Quote:
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03-16-2014, 09:23 AM | #12 |
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I don't think it has to do with the grade of oil. I was wondering for some strange reason what if Amsoil puts some additive that boost the fuel octane making it feel more powerful. I just took out the Amsoil Dominator because three Amsoil techs said to do so before possible harm is done to my system, so I just installed the Motul 8100 5w30 stuff. Now he car feels normal again like when I had the Amsoil XL or Signature series. I kept some Amsoil Dominator to have it sent in for testing. Remember the Dominator has a ton of ZCCP compared to other regular synthetic oils. Maybe that made the engine operate more freely giving that extra butt dyno feel. Whatever the case I miss it now.
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03-16-2014, 09:36 AM | #13 |
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If you can find it, Walmart has the 5 qt jugs of Pennzoil Ultra on sale for 21.00 a jug. Pennzoil is blowing out their stock, as a new formulation is coming in a month or 2 made from natural gas...
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/pennzoil-q-a/ Pennzoil Platinum® and Pennzoil Ultra Platinum™ Full Synthetic motor oils with PurePlus™ Technology will carry dexos approval for SAE 0W-20, 5W-20, and 5W-30. This will be the new packaging
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03-16-2014, 09:51 AM | #14 |
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Funny thats how I feel about RP
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