# Oil... how does it work? \[split\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 6, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-how-does-it-work-split/262189 "2012-01-06T23:40:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 48
**Author:** ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-how-does-it-work-split/262189/48 "2012-01-08T11:19:01Z")
> [@\*\*\*\*Official: Southgate Meet Thread\*\*\*\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-southgate-meet-thread/29171/2167): > > It’s been explained 400 times correctly in here already. Reread the thread. If you don’t get it by now, nothing I’m going to say can help. You’re a troll :rofl It has not been explained why SAE rating of being low (fluid) viscosity at a low number and high (thick) viscosity at a high number for the same oil tested at two temperature ranges (0, or fluid at 32deg, and 50, or thick at 210deg) does not match real world observations. If oil thickens up as it gets colder (which it does) SAE rating should follow that and display it as a high (thick) number as first number and a lower (thinner) number as the second. Where was that explained again “400 times”? :gtfo --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-how-does-it-work-split/262189)._