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posted by  someone claiming to be Steve on  Thu Jul 1 09:30 CST 2004 [RELATED]

I still occasionally get a mechanic who tells me very knowingly not to ever put synthetic oil in a used car engine, because all the seals will leak. Apparently there was a tendency for that to happen when synthetics were first introduced, but the manufacturers fixed the problem a good 15 years ago or so with some gasket-conditioning additives.

Those same mechanics will probably also tell you to never put a car battery on a concrete floor because it will discharge the battery. (apparently an issue 100 years ago or so when battery cases were made out of leaky wood and asphalt.)






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