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<blockquote data-quote="mrbb" data-source="post: 123679" data-attributes="member: 13825"><p>just food for thought, but syn oil also flows better in cold temps, so,, some times just switching from Dino oil to syn oil, can have a noticeable difference in cold weather starting! VERY SLIGHT< but the syn oil will protect your internal parts better than Dino oil when cold, which IMO is the bigger gain on using it! but even that too is not a HUGE gain!</p><p> but like others stated, your owners manual should have a chart listing what oil for what temps machine will be run in!</p><p> </p><p>for me, and NOT saying this is what anyone else should do</p><p> but on several machine I have that call for 10w/30, just I switched to full syn 05w/40 rotella,t6 (due to that what I can find cheapest and most common in my area and can be had for about the same price as dino oil making it worth buying IMO< all the more so if rebates are on it which is also very common)) </p><p>My experience after using for several decades now, have not seen any negative side effects, minus maybe costs, but again if you buy when on sale or with rebates, costs are about teh same!</p><p></p><p>and I again will be honest here and say that there is ONLY a SLIGHT difference in cold weather starting you will really notice! </p><p>as , I have a few machines that have always been hard to start in cold weather, and changing the oil didn;t result in any gains on them!(wish I could say other wise as I too hoped it would do more than it did for them) </p><p> I still either have to use a block heater, magnet oil pan heater ,( recently added a battery heater to one and that has been great so far) or some other way of warming them when things get very cold to run them, and having a battery tender on them or a jump pack handy when starting them!, the thinner syn oil, was not a noticeable difference in these stubborn cold weather starting models I have!</p><p></p><p> so, IMO< just changing to lower weight oil is not a FIX for cold weather starting,</p><p> it will HELP, protect internals more, and does help a SLIGHT bit, but its no magic trick or solution to cold weather starting issue's</p><p> some machines seem to have over others!</p><p></p><p>Just so you have some honest expectations here of what switching oil will really do for you</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrbb, post: 123679, member: 13825"] just food for thought, but syn oil also flows better in cold temps, so,, some times just switching from Dino oil to syn oil, can have a noticeable difference in cold weather starting! VERY SLIGHT< but the syn oil will protect your internal parts better than Dino oil when cold, which IMO is the bigger gain on using it! but even that too is not a HUGE gain! but like others stated, your owners manual should have a chart listing what oil for what temps machine will be run in! for me, and NOT saying this is what anyone else should do but on several machine I have that call for 10w/30, just I switched to full syn 05w/40 rotella,t6 (due to that what I can find cheapest and most common in my area and can be had for about the same price as dino oil making it worth buying IMO< all the more so if rebates are on it which is also very common)) My experience after using for several decades now, have not seen any negative side effects, minus maybe costs, but again if you buy when on sale or with rebates, costs are about teh same! and I again will be honest here and say that there is ONLY a SLIGHT difference in cold weather starting you will really notice! as , I have a few machines that have always been hard to start in cold weather, and changing the oil didn;t result in any gains on them!(wish I could say other wise as I too hoped it would do more than it did for them) I still either have to use a block heater, magnet oil pan heater ,( recently added a battery heater to one and that has been great so far) or some other way of warming them when things get very cold to run them, and having a battery tender on them or a jump pack handy when starting them!, the thinner syn oil, was not a noticeable difference in these stubborn cold weather starting models I have! so, IMO< just changing to lower weight oil is not a FIX for cold weather starting, it will HELP, protect internals more, and does help a SLIGHT bit, but its no magic trick or solution to cold weather starting issue's some machines seem to have over others! Just so you have some honest expectations here of what switching oil will really do for you [/QUOTE]
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