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Re: amsoil - good or bad?
That is like on their website where it says when your engine blows up
because of using bad or 'unapproved' oil and the maker refuses the
warranty because you used 'snake oil', you can ship the engine to them
and 'if' they decide it was indeed crappy oil, they will honor the
warranty. LOL!
Ya right, I'll bet 'their' diagnosis will always be a bad part, never
their crappy oil.
Mike
tom wrote:
>
> my snake oil comment was based on the fact that when a dealer tried to sell
> it to me, and me on it, he handed me a "comparison" sheet of different oils,
> and amsoil synthetic was at the absolute bottom of the list when compared to
> all the other "inferior" brands when it came to the A.P.I. ratings. I
> pointed this little fact out to him and his answer was "oh, those ratings
> don't mean anything". for the record, the valvoline all fleet plus that I
> had always used was at the top of the A.P.I. ratings.
> <HLS@nospam.nix> wrote in message
> news:QQ0If.5497$rL5.2503@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...
> >
> > "Nate Nagel" <njnagel@flycast.net> wrote in message
> > news:dso83t22mvg@news4.newsguy.com...
> >
> > > > She ran hers to 15,000 miles between changes. No glycol
> contamination,
> > > > no condensation.....just Amsoil. And, as it was her car, and her
> > > > philosophy,
> > > > I didn't choose to interfere.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > With OCIs that long I would be real nervous without either periodic (5K
> > > miles?) filter changes and/or a bypass filter. But that said a good
> > > synthetic really should be able to go 15K miles without issues, I
> > > suspect other problems with that engine like a nonfunctional PCV valve?
> > >
> > > Personally, I change my oil every 5K (Porsche 944) with either Mobil 1
> > > 5W40 or Rotella T syn 5W40 even though the owner's manual says 7500.
> > > Maybe I'm being over-cautious, but I can't be arsed to mess with used
> > > oil analyses and without same I just get nervous.
> >
> > I don't waste my time with oil analyses either.
> >
> > No, she had no PCV problems. Nothing wrong with the engine, just 15,000
> > mile change intervals, as far as I could determine.
> >
> > Amsoil must have a heavy additive package load. I think I may have read
> > that
> > somewhere. Lots of oils will 'cook' and decompose with time and
> > temperature,
> > we are led to believe. A lot of the damage caused to Toyota, VW, and
> > similar
> > engines has been laid to this, although some suggest that the engine
> design
> > and PCV specifications play a strong part.
> >
> > Anyone who wants can use Amsoil and a lot swear by it. Many of the snake
> > oil comments on this group are based on hearsay, I suspect, rather than
> > first
> > hand experience with the product. I am fairly open minded on the subject,
> > but
> > choose not to use the product myself.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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