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   rbowman to All   
   Re: Conventional oil hard to find?   
   25 Mar 21 20:50:41   
   
   XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On 03/25/2021 02:35 PM, Tekkie� wrote:   
   >   
   > On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:01:50 -0500, Jim Joyce posted for all of us to   
   digest...   
   >   
   >>   
   >> On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:35:05 +0530, mike  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 25-03-2021 13:08  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Once it gets in the bottle it is the same as far as API is concerned.   
   >>>   
   >>> I agree with you that oil is a commodity which people obsess about.   
   >>> Mostly because advertisers want to give people something to obsess about.   
   >>>   
   >>> Every brand is different but those differences won't matter much to us.   
   >>>   
   >>> What matters mostly is how often we change it (IMHO).   
   >>> Which itself matters mostly based on our weather & driving patterns (IMHO).   
   >>>   
   >>> And even that is subject to a lot of personal opinion (IMHO).   
   >>> Everyone makes their own assessment of what to use & when to change (IMHO).   
   >>>   
   >>> (My personal opinion is twice a year for dino & once a year for synth).   
   >>> (My personal opinion is a filter change roughly about once a year.)   
   >>   
   >> I'm curious. If you're going to go to the trouble of changing the oil twice   
   >> a year, why not change the filter twice a year, as in, doing both at the   
   >> same time? It seems like only a small increment of extra work and expense.   
   >   
   > How dare you question Arlen?   
   >   
      
   I find it much easier to filter him...   
      
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