Redline Debate

[Domenic Lippolis <lippolis1@domain.elided>]

OK, I couldn't keep quiet anymore.

About three years ago I switched over to the Redline oil in my Milano 
Verde.  Due to everyone's confusion with which oil to put in I called 
Redline directly and told them the Alfa oil requirement.  They recommended 
the 75W90NS for my box.  Now my second gear syncro was not the healthiest 
it could be so I figured I would try.  Well, I have to say that there was 
and still is a definiate improvement in shifting (both cold and hot.)  They 
also recommended a friction modifier to be added for health of the limited 
slip.  I am still not 100% sure what that was about but I never added it. 
 Said without it it may cause the limited slip plates to wear prematurely. 
 When I tear down the tranny I will near know what was normal wear or the 
oil..  When I put it in it had 100K+ so I didn't thin kit could hurt.

I put and AGIP oil in my GTV6 (still in there) and it did spit nothing. 
 2nd gear crunch.  WILL be switching to Redline soon.

I put MTL in my wife's old Jetta and my old scirocco (both gone now), we 
drove both cars into the ground with the oil in there without a problem. 
 There was a HUGE difference in shifting when it was cold- "just like 
butta."

I also use Redline's diesel fuel catalyst/cetane booster in my Jetta TDI in 
the summer with good results!

DOM!

> About a year ago I read a number of testimonials to Redline oils from one
or
> two sources...and duly paid an arm and a leg for a couple of quarts of
Redline
> MTL which eventually found its way into the manual gearbox/diff of my 
nine
> year old 164TS. Am I now to understand that I have been 'had'? I confess 
to
> noticing no difference whatsoever, though I had expected to notice a
> difference of some kind.
>
> The question for me is, do I just continue with it, or is it a potential
> liability to be drained out ASAP. It went against my normal philosophy to
pay
> so much, and I only did so in the belief I was doing the transmission a
favour
> in terms of longer term protection.

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