I think with the proper maintinence you can really prolong the life of all the current heavy oilers out there. that being said, with improper maintinence I think you can drastically reduce the life of all the current heavy oilers. Like someone said, they're pretty much all big sponges. Keep dripping water onto a sponge and eventually, it will fill up. and when a full sponge in this case means the surface having a harder time producing friction on the lane, that can spell big problems for you.
What I'm getting at is that I think you should probably try to rejuvenate/hot water bath/ whatever you have to do to deep clean the mutant, because chances are, it'll fix it like new. Chances also are, that the corner would do the same thing and need the same kind of cleaning in a few months.
