# Oil... how does it work? \[split\]

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**Created:** [January 6, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-how-does-it-work-split/262189 "2012-01-06T23:40:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-how-does-it-work-split/262189/13 "2012-01-07T20:05:13Z")

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> [@Dish Network Customers](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dish-network-customers/37033/24):
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> It’s all dependant on oil temperatures. Obv cold oil flows worse and hot oil flows well .

No.

At 32 degrees 5w-30 oil flows better than it does at operating temperature.

That’s how viscosity and it’s ratings work. They are already based on temperature.

Did you read the quotes above?

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