Thread: Engine Oil Additive's

Do a Google on 'Snake oil'....don't add anything to engine oil. The experts say that the small particles of PTFE in these additives can clogg the oil filters.

Good quality oil has everything your engine needs....trust me!

Our rally Team is sponsored by "Castrol". At a recent seminar the top lubes tech guy gave us a hundred reasons why NOT to add anything to engine oils.

Regards.

S.

Hi Larns,

I did my apprenticeship with a bloke that used and loved a product like the one you describe (a very slick product!). My father is also a convert and he's got a lot of experience with heavy machinery. For the life of me I don't know why they go for this stuff - the science just doesn't add up. It does sound the goods though, and for every person who knows its dodgy there's 10 that will give it a glowing review.

I've seen that product used in probably about 50 vehicles over the years, and in some of them it really seemed to have a positive effect (in the short term) - in one, a ford laser, it smoothed the idle right out and we had to drop the idle speed about 3 times. The bottom line is though, if it was any good then normal oil companies would be putting it in their stuff (I would think).

My 2 cents - adjusted for inflation.

Originally Posted by akelly

The bottom line is though, if it was any good then normal oil companies would be putting it in their stuff (I would think).

My 2 cents - adjusted for inflation.

would it really be in an oil companies own best interest to develop a product that reduced the amount of oil changes a vehicle needs - thus reducing the amount of oil purchased?

cat > pigeons

I don't use the additives either but is quite normal for a new engine to run a little bit hotter than normal for the first couple thousand k's.

Mark

I have always believed that the oil companies are the experts and if something worth adding came along they would add it and advertise it to try and increase market share.
Don't start me on what I think of them when it comes to fuel though! Suffice to say people have to buy fuel every day not just a couple of times a year so they have us all over an oil barrell.
Steve.

Originally Posted by Stephen Price

I have always believed that the oil companies are the experts and if something worth adding came along they would add it and advertise it to try and increase market share.

Steve.

don't start me on consumer oil additives either........

If the average Joe thinks they can outsmart a bunch of blokes with PhD's in chemistry and tribology (lubrication) by adding some 'slick' to their average oil is having a serious lend of themselves.
Most oils available these days are so far superior to even ten years ago it almost beggars belief.

Trucks able to go 100,000km between oil changes and all tolerances/clearances at 'new' spec at a 1,000,000km teardown (ok, they have huge sumps) should be proof enough of how advanced a modern engine oil can be.

Trucks able to go 100,000km between oil changes and all tolerances/clearances at 'new' spec at a 1,000,000km teardown (ok, they have huge sumps) should be proof enough of how advanced a modern engine oil can be.

Wish I could go that long without needing an oil change. Have just put a recon long motor in my van and a warranty condition is oil and filter change every 5000 km. Its a pain to do that every second weekend for the next year even though I use a quality oil.

The only engine oil additive I ever found to do anything was Wynn's Charge, long withdrawn from the market. This was in my used car dealer days in the sixties & early seventies when I owned a small yard for a short time and also wholesaled a few auction purchases and fleaed a few from home. Charge would bung up a smoky oil burner for long enough to sell it and keep any hostile buyer at bay. Caveat Emptor. You get what you pay for.