Mr. Warren, I am impressed by your list of material accomplishments
and ownership of multiple cars.

But please, do not assume nor preassume the discussion. Please
believe, that 'some' DIY'ers do not neglect their cars. The reason why
the Fumoto is even a consideration for most DIY'ers is because they do
not 'want' to neglect their machinery. Let's assume that for
discussion sake.

But also, let's understand that mechanics do not provide correct
service nor provide truthful, clear and concise language to their
clients.
Most oil changes are money losers for mechanics. Realistically, you
could change your oil every 10,000km and it'll still run great.
(http://www.trustmymechanic.com/change_oil.html). Oil changes are a
way to get the customer in, in order for the bait and switch to occur.
It allows them the opportunity for them to sell you other high profit
items and services (go to any Mr. Lube, and you'll know what I mean).

Some shops will even go so far to over price a major job (eg. engine
overhaul), since they make more money on the low maintenace items
(coolant changes, tranmission flushes, throttle body cleaning, air
filters, engine flushes, emission cleaning services, etc...). The time
it takes them to do an engine overhaul, they could have done 20 oil
changes, and made major bucks. You name it, they'll rip you off on
things that take less than 5 minutes to do, with a bit of research and
know-how.

Mr. Warren. Listen. Also, mechanics don't do the full meal deal, like
they are say they do. The 21 point inspections are a sham and a
shame.
Battery check, checked off. Yet, the battery cover was never taken
off, I ask. I get anger and spite. Instead they check a few things,
wait for a few minutes to pass, turn to my air filter, and instruct me
that I need an new air filter, and forget about the rest of the 21
points. They don't check my chasis, they don't do the full 21.

Next, mechanics have forgotten to change the oil filter (whether they
forget, or simply don't) duirng routine oil AND filter changes. In
addition,  mistreading of the oil pan is an issue. There have been
many a mechanic that has ruined an oil pan because he simply doesn't
care. So please don't jam on DIY'ers, who have ruined their cars.
There are just as much self professed, and self regulated,
professional mechanic, who has runied just as many cars.

This leads me to the point. The Fumoto Oil Drain Valve eliminates the
animal (professional mechanic) from having to even do another step in
the mechanical process. A simple thing as misthreading a plug, can
lead to a few $100 down the drain. Does the mechanic care? No. The
more steps for a mechanic in the process, the worse off your car is.
The less steps, the better. The faster you get out of the shop, the
better and the cheaper it will be. That leads me to the FUMOTO.

Mr. Warren. Fumoto Oil Drain valve is proven. It is an 'evolution'
beyond the simple plug. Im surprised car manufacturers haven't
provided these on most cars.

Last point. NASA and the military rely on synthetic base oils for
their machinery. NASA for sub-zero space, and the military for
instances like circum polar expeditions (like the present one Harper
is thinking of, after the Russians planted their flags underwater,
near the North Pole).

Evolution, Mr. Warren. I don't know what era or age you were born in,
but synthetic oils are here, they exist as material facts.
They work, especially in low temperatures. Please don't dispute the
evidence.

Let me analogize here. You must know 8-tracks. Well, CD's now exist.
You know, VHS, and BETA, well... Blue-Ray DVDs actually exist for the
consumer to use. Yes, all mediums provide us with simply sound and
video, but each with different qualities. We are in an era of CDs and
DVDs.

Synthetic oils and fossil based oils do the same job, they lubricate.
But they have differing qualites.

Starting up your engine kills its, especially in cold weather
environments. (eg. Edmonton can get down to -45 celcius).
Don't trying to provide you with technical mechanic babble, here.
Synthetic grades do not 'muck' up at cold temperatures, whereas fossil-
based oils do.
One against the other, there isn't much advantage. Yet, in cold
weather starts there is.
That is one area (there are other areas), for sure, synthetic oils out
perform fossil based oils.

Mr. Warren. Evolution. Not assumption.

Do you even know what the Fumoto Valve is?  You rant about it as if it
eliminates the need for the owner to get under the vehicle yet it's
merely an easier way to drain the oil - instead of unscrewing the oil
drain plug WHILE UNDER THE VEHICLE you open the Fumoto WHILE UNDER THE
VEHICLE.

. look

How, pray tell, does the Fumoto do that???

It's certainly true that if you maintain the same "too soon" oil
change interval used in the Americas there is little benefit to using
synthetics.  If you use them as intended it's a different story.

If I understand you correctly you are saying that all (non-synthetic) motor
oil is pretty much the same?  The reason I ask is because last December Pep
Boys was practically giving away Pennzoil.  I had three Honda generator
engines fail while the Pennzoil was in them.  This scared me right back to
Valvoline (now about $35/case!).  So, is it safe to use Pennzoil and I just
had a lot of bad luck?