Even on dino oil gas or diesel or gas 3k oil chages is plain waste these days with as clean as engines run and the advancement in oils.Not to long ago thought I'd never make a statement like that!

 

Take that same by-pass filter system, oil analysis, makeup oil, (the same as synthetic oils) and apply it towards dino oil. You'll be amazed how long you could run dino oil before having to change it.

Now add what synthetic oil costs and what dino oil costs used in an extended drain schdule. You'll truely be amazed at how much your wasting money on synthetics.

Having said that, synthetics do have there place such as minus zero start ups. These engines are so durable and reliable that even cold startups with dino oils don't hurt them as much as some would want you to beleave.

 

Very well said utvaquero!! I couldn't agree w/ you more.

Thanks to everyone for all the responses.

 

not one response mentioned one of the best qualities of AMSoil! it's AMERICAN-MADE-SYNTHETIC-oil! THAT makes it for me, aside from the other great responses... what else would you put in an AMERICAN made engine?

 

iS THERE SOME TYPE KIT AVAILABLE FOR OIL ANALYSIS OR DO YOU HAVE TO SEND SAMPLES IN SOMEWHERE ?

 

Pure BS. Scamsoil gets their basestock from the same sources as every other oil company. Big and small alike, Exxon, Shell, BP, whatever, they all start out the same. The only differences are the blend of adds. 90% of what's in there is all the same across the board. You want to pay a premium for boutique oil, fine. Many of then are quite good. But the differences at similar price points across the various brands not that great, at least not at the price scamsoil charges.

 

You can get a kit from Amsoil for about $18. I've seen a few others on the net for around $16 (however, the one from Amsoil includes all postage). You take a sample and send it in to an independant lab . . . they give you the full oil analysis.

 

Well that Boutique oil has some of the highest ratings ever since its conception time after time when tested against the huge stack of others on the market.I like their products,ease of buying,news letters etc.I could care how they run their internal business affairs or pay employees.Many companys have differant styls of pay plans,bonus etc.Thats really none of mine or any one elses business unless its illegal.

 

Amsoil has the highest ratings by who? how often do you hear about oil related failures in engines? doesn't really happen. Now if you actually did have a failure related to enigne oil breaking down or whatever, using most of the oils from amsoil would probably not be covered under warranty because many of them arent certified. Its an easy way out for the dealership to void warranty and take the blame off of them.

Just an opinion

 

This comment isn't specific to Amsoil (I already gave my 2 cents on that one), but more on dino vs. synthetic. I'm not saying that you can't run an engine for a long time on dino, but you have to wonder why Cummins (and others) tells you NOT to use synthetic for the first 5K-20K miles . . . . . . because the synthetic oil is so good at doing its job, that it doesn't allow the engine to break in properly!! You leave dino in the engine to allow for increased wear and friction.

Hello?!?! . . . . .. does that mean anything to anyone? No brainer to me . . but that's easy for me to say . . . many of my friends accuse me of being a no brainer

 

Just thought I'd give you my opinion. I've owned a Cummins powered Motorhome for 8 years. Its a 99 5.9 ISB with a 6 speed Allison trans. Motorhome sits for as long as a month without running. Oh and I run only Rotella oil in it. ( I also have an 06 Dodge with the Cummins and a six speed manual trans). The Motorhome weighs 24,000 and I tow a Grand Cherokee 4x4 behind it that weighs 4,600. ie that 5.9 works pretty hard ALL the time. I called Cummins when it was new and asked "Do you REALLY recommend a 15,000 mile oil change because I CAN'T run that motor that far without changing the oil. The guy was really nice and said "I know what you mean but don't change it any less than 10k miles OR once per year. I did the once per year which sometimes approach 10k. Mostly around 3k. The motor NEVER burned any measurable amount of oil per the dip stick IF I only ran 15 gts in the 16 gt system. Also told to me by Cummins as the last quart got blown out of the vent because of a faulty pan on the motor ie the oil level was too high. Anyway my new Dodge with the same basic motor had its oil changed at 2,500 miles and will get change once per year after that as I don't put more than 8,000 miles on it in a year. I have NO doubt that if the engine is half as good as the RV motor this thing will last a VERY long time.

 

I'm really new to the Dodge world, but I do have a little bit of personal experience with Amsoil.

I know this is completely different from this application, but I've got alot of experience with two-stroke engines that run Amsoil. Friends and I run Amsoil 100:1 in mostly 150CC engines. Anyway, these engines are showing no noticeable signs of wear even after hours of loading, unloading, heating, and fast cooling. The engines get some serious abuse too.

It just seems like Amsoil has done their homework with different products. I'm going to start running it in my new (to me) '03.

 

i'll be switching to amsoil on both of my trucks when the next oil change is due...still trying to decide if i should go with their sythetic blend first and then switch to full synthetic or switch to full synthetic right away..my trucks have 15k & 16k miles on them.

 

With the low miles you have on your trucks you should be able to go stright to full synthetic oil with out any problems.