Think twice about oil additives

[esi-slowboy]

Read this http://neptune.spacebears.com/cars/legal/

 

[Denji]

I never thought once about them.

 

[LeJeune123]

Great information!!!

 

[Defiant]

Try "snake oil":

http://members.shaw.ca/costall/1000Q/

And still, DSMs love RESTORE for noisy lifters. Beats me.

 

[igs]

Just like fuel additives and RESTORE additive don't work.

 

[jjsacidy]

theres a test somewhere on the internet using lucas gear oil addative. it shows that it actually helped the gear oil 'climb' but it also caused horrible foaming.

 

[TsiNoob]

I wish I wsould've saw this thread a week or two ago.

I had a perfect running 93 tsi and I bought some of that lucas oil treatment. Figuring maybe it will quiet the engine down a little bit. Some of the lifters and valves that is. Well I bought it from a garage and it was sealed so I don't believe they did anything to it.

Anyways I put this stuff in and nothing happens. I figured it will thin out with the oil. After about 2 weeks I noticed my oil pressure wasn't the greatest or where it should've been. I use a K&N oil filter and 10-40 Castrol Syntec oil. So I added a quart because I was a little bit low but it didn't help the pressure any. And I noticed the engine was if not louder than before.

So I bought the stuff to change the oil to get this crap out of it. When I go to unscrew the oil filter it weighed at least 2lbs! I put it on an electronic scale and it said 2.348lbs. I was pissed. I cut the oil filter apart and the inside looked like as if someone put bubble gum inside the elements of the filter.

Well no more than 3 days later the motor sounds weird. I'm not sure what kind of weird but it was different. So I made an appoitment at the garage for Wed. I was out driving around and everytime I would apply the throttle, boost or not, there was alot of smoke coming out the back. Monday, I was on my way to school and it sounded like nuts in a folgers can. I'm figuring, shit, whats up now. I go it pull into work, which I pass on my was to school, The motor pops and locks up the wheels for a second and I coast into the parking lot where it dies. So I push it around back and attempt to start it and it sounds extremely tight. but finally breaks free and runs but not well at all.

I theorize that this crap was too think for my car and caused a lack of lubrication and gummed up the oil pump causing no oil to be circulated and caused my motor to blow. I believe it spun a bearing and took a rod out with it.

Sorry for the rant but the only thing I used in my previous vehicles (explorer and Jetta) was that restore and I can vouch that it seems to work. I can tell a difference. Not like MAD HORSEPOWA, but everything seems smoother, but I figured I would try something different and I got the shaft on that one.

Thanks for your time.

 

[PieEyedPiper]

i use the lucas oil treatment, and it makes my lifter tick go away sooner than just plain castrol GTX 10w 30.
so far no complaints, but then again i cant really tell if its doing anything bad..

 

[maynard]

That's some great information. I admit i bought into the bs. I had a 79 chevy c-10 that had noisy lifters. I paid $25 for that Motor Up crap at Wal-Mart and it didn't do a damn thing. In fact I think the noise got worse. After that I quit buying any type of oil additive. Now I'm really convinced they're a waste of money.

 

[Ravenous]

I use the lucas oil stabalizer in my car and it works great...granted my car is on it's last legs anyway. I would lose 3 quarts of oil a month from exterior leaks and my rings being blown. I put a quart of lucas in and the car smokes less and only takes a quart between oil changes...also seems to run a wee bit smoother but that could be the placebo effect.

 

[Defiant]

theres a test somewhere on the internet using lucas gear oil addative. it shows that it actually helped the gear oil 'climb' but it also caused horrible foaming.

With the warning that this guy is also in the sales business:

http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/images/lucas/lucas.htm

 

[nerfbars]

I swear by Lucus!!! I ran it in my 89 Cutlass for 8 years until I sold it with 370,000 miles on it.

 

[TurboChrged93]

I use the engine restore get rid of the noisy lifters. Been using it for a decent period of time, maybe 20,000 miles and I have noticed no side effects. I don't use it however because i think it restores my compression or whatknot, I just love that purple stuff because my lifters are completely silent after I use it. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Defiant]

Apparently we're going to head into the yes-it-is, no-it-isn't phase now.

Or, not.