Synthetic oils for desert use
Is it worth putting synthetic oils in the engine/gearbox/transfer box and maybe diffs of a LR 110 given that the vehicle will be loaded with up to 500kg in high ambients (in April), fighting soft sand on the pistes and hundreds of km of dune bashing. The transmission in particular must be under high stress (no oil cooler on the R380 box). Syhthetic oils have the ability to remain stable at higher temperatures than mineral derived oils, but are they worth the expense?
Andrew.
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