Negativity effects the chemistry of the oil, and lightens the wallet.What does lube guard do anyway?
What does lube guard do anyway?
I may be wrong, but I think selling snake oil was outlawed a while back!!
If you have any modern car/truck/horse carriage/internal combustion engine none of this crap adds any value if you follow common sense service intervals (to me. 4-5000 intervals with full synthetic oil).
The whole vehicular universe is full of BS & scientifically unfounded claims that are based on 1900 - 1990s or so manufactured crappy inefficient engines.
These types of additives worked when we had engines with 7-8.5 compression ratios with enough slop in tolerances that could fit an elephant in it. I have owned them all!!!
The difference is, those oils are designed and blended for the proper distribution of the moly to maintain the proper viscosity. When you dump in additives, it changes the composition of the oil from how it was designed to work and could actually increase wearConsidering I just posted a screenshot showing many (cheap to expensive) oils containing lots of moly, safe to say moly is an important ingredient (though Boron can be used in place of Moly) and this has nothing to do with 1990s engines.
HPL is also a long interval oil. You don't usually buy it to run 5000 miles, you can easily run it 10k to 20k miles with the highest I've seen reaching about 25k, all backed by lab reports of course.
Surprised you say that. This forum is the sole reason I use it.Adding the lube guard additive is probably worse for your engine than anything else you are doing
See video I posted.Surprised you say that. This forum is the sole reason I use it.
I may reconsider.
What’s your reasoning ?
The lubricating oils have changed dramatically, the bearing and ring tolerances have not changed in 40 years. The lighter weight oil is used to reduce parasitic drag. Period.I may be wrong, but I think selling snake oil was outlawed a while back!!
If you have any modern car/truck/horse carriage/internal combustion engine none of this crap adds any value if you follow common sense service intervals (to me. 4-5000 intervals with full synthetic oil).
The whole vehicular universe is full of BS & scientifically unfounded claims that are based on 1900 - 1990s or so manufactured crappy inefficient engines.
These types of additives worked when we had engines with 7-8.5 compression ratios with enough slop in tolerances that could fit an elephant in it. I have owned them all!!!
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Bearing tolerances have changed on factory engines.The lubricating oils have changed dramatically, the bearing and ring tolerances have not changed in 40 years. The lighter weight oil is used to reduce parasitic drag. Period.
Carfax will estimate mileage based on standard averages. I get those from time to time about a car that was totaled years ago.This is a good question! I use Penzoil Platinum synthetic and change it way to often at 5000 miles with about 45% life remaining shown on the dash gage. But I get an email from Carfax saying my regular maintenance record says it's overdue. I suppose it will show up when someone looks at a Carfax report that my truck wasn't maintained properly!View attachment 127692
I dump the oil at 50% but don’t change the filter. It’s a little lazy but saves me having to soak the rack and it’s quick. Then I let the dealer do it at 5% or so because I need it for warranty.