# 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 10, 2012, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-how-does-it-work-split/262189/130 "2012-01-10T08:16:56Z")

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> [@wow, a second good story from the news](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wow-a-second-good-story-from-the-news/47798/5):
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> If you guys can’t grasp that cold, thick oil should have high SAE numbers assigned but instead has low numbers, I can’t help you.

The SAE ratings are done at a fixed temperature. The oil being cold is irrelevant to the rating itself. It’s just a number, I don’t know what else to tell you.

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