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Synthetic oil isn't going to help with the situation that I think you're alluding to. The chief danger with not getting to operating temperature is that water condensed into the oil does not get a chance to boil off, and then you're recirculating that water through the engine causing corrosive...
If you're only putting 1000 miles on it a year, a good argument can be made for using conventional oil, since the premium cost of synthetic would be wasted if you're just changing what is essentially clean oil simply because of age.
That's why these engines have several fold the capacity of a similarly sized consumer engine. The added abuse is factored into the added volume.
The one thing I've never found a good study/explanation of is how long oil can survive, while mileage is low. Most of us owners are more likely to...