You said Mobil uses PAO. Then you said "Any American-made Syntec does not
use PAO base stock, and is not truly synthetic." Is Mobil 1 not USA made?

"Brian Running" > wrote in message
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> > Maybe I'm mistaken, but I believe the 5W-50 Syntec is also 100% true
> > synthetic, and they have or used to have a 20W-50 that I also believe
was
> > 100% synthetic
>
> There was a big controversy about this a couple years back. Castrol had
> been using real PAO synthetic base stocks for their Syntec oils, but then
> changed to VHVI base stocks, because they're cheaper. VHVI base stock is
> not synthetic, and contains all the waxes and other undesirable
ingredients
> that refining petroleum cannot completely remove. Castrol continued to
call
> their oils "synthetic" on the grounds that the additives to the base stock
> were synthetic. Mobil had a fit about this, because Mobil 1 uses real PAO
> base stock and they didn't like Castrol marketing their Syntec as
synthetic
> when it's really not. The matter went to arbitration before some
marketing
> authority, and Castrol won. Even though Castrol won on marketing grounds,
> Syntec does not use PAO base stock, and contains all the undesirable junk
> that comes with dino oil and which true synthetic avoids. Any
American-made
> Syntec does not use PAO base stock, and is not truly synthetic. The
German,
> 5W-40 does use PAO.
>
> While we can debate the merits of dino versus synthetic oil, I think we'd
> all agree that if you're buying synthetic oil, it ought to be real, honest
> synthetic oil. So, I quit using Syntec and went over to Mobil 1 in the
> V-Dub, and went to Amsoil in the van. Plus, Mobil 1 0W-40 has the VW
502.00
> rating, so, what the heck.
>
>