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Dec 18, 2011 | 01:30 PM

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onehundred80

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Re: Using Recycled Oil... Thoughts?

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Originally Posted by Mike-in-Orange

I can certainly understand ones reluctance to use a recycled oil in their car, but look at crude oil that is initially used to make the oils (as well as gasoline and diesel) we all use today. You'd certainly never put that in your car, either. I'm much less concerned with what the product started life as than I am with what the resulting product is.

Even pure synthetics like Mobil1 start life as dead dinosaur juice. It's all in the refining process and the additives put into the oil that make it what it is. If sea water treated, and even waster water recycled, to make drinking water, why can't there be a viable process to recycle motor oil?

Basically the oil we use is made by recycling crude oil. The oil that we take from our cars if allowed to settle will produce an oil that looks just like new oil and at the bottom there will be a sludge. It will have contaminants in solution that may give it a slightly different color.
When I was poor apprentice I added this cleaner looking oil back into my motorcycle between total oil changes. The additives were probably all gone and it is the additives that make the quality oils we use today. Not the best thing to do but I saved money and that was the main thing. I would never do this today, but that used oil can be and is re refined and makes good oil after the re addition of the additives. There is more money to be made refining a barrel of used oil than a barrel of crude I'm sure.

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