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  1. 12th June 2011, 03:41 PM #11
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    Age doesn't matter, only the specification. The oil itself is older than everyone in this thread combined.
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  2. 13th June 2011, 12:47 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dougal View Post
    Age doesn't matter, only the specification. The oil itself is older than everyone in this thread combined.
    I thought much the same but it's the stuff they add in that may have a shelf life, although I somehow doubt it.
    When quoting a 1 year life I'm sure the supplier/manufacturer is just protecting themselves....they only offer a 1 year warranty. If you use it and it causes problems (even if it was manufactured/blended incorrectly) and it's over a year old then no warranty.....

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  4. 14th June 2011, 07:22 AM #14
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    Ok Andrew

    I asked this exact question of a blender years ago and couldn't get a definitive answer.

    I had some really trick and very expensive synthetic oil left over from when i was racing and it had darkened over the intervening ten years so I wasn't game to use it, even though it had been stored in pretty good conditions.
    I'm guessing being an ester it may have pulled some moisture into it through the plastic, but really don't know why it darkened.

    What I was told is that you can get additive drop out in storage, not all of them stay in solution apparently.
    The crap you sometimes see on the bottom of a new oil jug is not dirt but some of the additives dropping out of suspension.
    This is something I've observed in multiple bottles of oil (mainly gear oils, maybe they stay on the shelf longer ?) from all the blenders.
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