I thought I was starting to understand you, but what does recycled oil have to do with a Mobil 1 vs. Castrol statement? Neither Castrol or Mobil 1 use recycled oil in their products. You seem to still be under the (incorrect) assumption that recycled oil gets used in the production processes of these high quality oils....which it does not.

Re-refined oil can be purchased, but it is cheaper and MUST be disclosed as being re-refined. I'm not sure if there are any sythetic blends on the market that use a re-refined base, but I can say that neither Castrol or Mobil 1 do, so your statement seems inaccurate at best.

 

Hay, you started it, you are the one who talked about recycled oil. You stated that cooking oil, can not be recycled. I never said anything about the oil, you or I use. My point was to show you don't know what you are talking about. Just about 100% of what you say is untrue.

FWIW, I DO NOT use Mobil 1, do you want to know why? It is NO LONGER a synthetic oil. It's just high end Dyno oil. Google it, & you will see what I'm talking about, hell even search under my user name, for the links & test. My cars ONLY get Redline, or Amsoil, both are high end 100% synthetic oil.

I do not understand why you are believing everything that web page is telling you. They are not a oil company, it's just a "Green" website. If you look up Mercades Benz, you will find they have the same oil standards as Audi, recycled oil, is NOT on the approved list. I would bet that MB is using recycled oil, for diesel fuel in the plant. As MOST recycled oil, goes into FUEL, not motor oil. If recycled oil is so prevalent in the auto industry & "everyone is using" it, why is not in every store? Why is it not in the news, why does Wallmart & Costco carry it?

People will put what ever then want into what ever they want, that does not make it right, or good. One little line on a green web page does not make me believe that a vast number of people are using recycled motor oil.

I never stated that you use it, I'm marly trying in vein to get the point into your skull that your "oil is oil" is WAY off base, & in fact a mistruth.

 

Let me clear the air!

I wasnt sayin that recycled oil is mixed in withhigh in oils. I saw like 2 or 3 postings on this forum asking" Which is the better oil for my car". All I'm sayin is "Out of the brand name oils...Oil is Oil", thats it, and to show you that "Oil is Oil", I found a article talkin about how recycled oil was used, and it stated that its used in cars too....so I'm like "If people are using recycled oil in there cars, why are yall talkin about which Brand Name oil is better for your car, If its Mobil, Valvoline, Pennzoil, Castrol or whatever brand name you use, all brand name oilsare good,I said that when I started this post. I was just showing peoplethat they canbuy whatever brand name oil they want, and for me, I get the cheapest oil out of the 4 I had listed. I didnt say that I used store brand or recycled oils, I dont ever eat store brand food, or go to off brand gas stations, Why would I buy a cheaply madeoil!

 

And if you CAN understand what I'm sayin now, then your the closed minded one. If you run your car hard enough to use a higher end brand of oil then the normalconsumer, then you should be running your car on the Super GT or summ'em.

 

It has become clear that one of the primary reasons this discussion has turned into an argument is your inability to use the English language. You even took the time to capitalize the word "CAN" when the word "can't" is surely what was intended (and even with that change the sentence doesn't really make sense). Also "your" is not short for "you are" - you intended to say "you're". Then does not replace than, and I have no idea what "summ'em" is a translation for.

Looking back upon your original posts you clearly stated "if there putting recycled oil into whatever they want to, what makes your mobil better then my Castrol" which suggests you believed they were using recycled oil in Mobil or Castrol. You claim you never said or meant that, but your words led us to believe that is what you were suggesting....thus the confusion.

Your very FIRST post said this: "I understand the car needs Synthetic, but so what if it's full or blend, its still Synthetic.....Oil is oil, take the name off and you still got oil, people wanna act like its a difference but it's really not, it's all recycled anyway, it just gets dirty,it never wears out, just cleaned up a lil bit and BAM, back on the shelf"

First you state there is essentially no difference between full or blend - a gigantic falsehood. Second you clamp on to that statement about oil is oil, again which is very untrue. Even with oils that proclaim to be "synthetic" there are huge differences, and this is not just opinion. If you read the "Bob is the oil guy" website you would soon find out there are dozens of characteristics that make one oil different from the next, and some cheaper oils do NOT perform nearly as well as a premium oil. Now if you wish to compare PREMIUM oils or HIGH QUALITY oils then perhaps the differences are minimal, but even at that level there are differences and oils can and do react differently on one car than they do on the next. Even on this very board we have Audi Certified Technicians that attest to that very fact - and these guys actually see the inside of the engine.

Third, your original statement made it sound as if you were suggesting all oil is recycled and thus whatever you buy it probably was recycled. After clarifying yourself a few times it seems that is not what you meant, but your wording of your original post made that statement and thus this all boils down to you not being specific in your word selection.

No offense, but I'd suggest re-reading your posts to ensure you are really saying what you meant to say. Otherwise this is far from the last argument you will be on the wrong side of.

 

Im done, what ever yall say

 

Yea, I'm the closed minded one. [:@] LOL!

I think you should have stated... "If the refined motor oil, meet the API testing & approval ratings for Audi, then they are safe to use"
However, I do not see any refined oil, being Synthetic, it all seams to be low-midrange conventional oil, like Castrol GTX.

Oil temps don't lie, using better oil, the engine runs cooler, that's a fact, & a cooler running engine, means it's being lubed better, fact.

Just admit you have no clue what you are trying to say & we will be done with it, you are the one who is digging the deep hole.

Since, you like links....
Laws on recycled oil
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/ht...3----000-.html

Another Green web page, less then 14% or 75% is reused as motor oil, it takes 1g of used oil for 2q of refined.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/ht...3----000-.html

A page that details the recycling methods
http://www.oilrecycling.gov.au/what-happens.html

Just for kicks, here is Veg oil, since it's "NOT" recycled by your thoughts
http://www.nols.edu/bus/bus_veggie.shtml

Yup, Mecs used refined oil that is API certified
http://www.ac-rerefined.com/Endorsements.pdf http://www.ac-rerefined.com/html/endorsements.html
However, it doesn't say in what ratio, they say "refined content"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product...on_refined_oil