Originally Posted By: demarpaint
Originally Posted By: Quest
biggest, most useless snake oil out there.
What does it fix, may I ask? worn cylinder (in what form? taper? scored cylinder due to abrasion?)
how about oil burning issues due to stuck(Carboned) oil control rings?
Nah! me takes is that only the naive/fools part their hard-earned mullahs to buy into these bee-ash...and these companies keep on selling these useless products to make money off of you.
Just like the other famous one here on BITOG (the one that has always been a "mystery" to me): jack-of-all-trades, UCL properties, perported fuel-stabilisation properties, cures ticks off of my dawgs, saved my marriage, comprised of nothing but stoddard solvents (ha! I'd rather substitute it with a cup of kerosene in my gas to get that placebo effect).
Rant off, back to work.
Q.
I'd say a naive fool would tear and engine apart and start replacing ticking hydraulic lifters instead of trying "a snake oil" that has cleared up ticking lifters for thousands upon thousands of people for decades. Including some pretty smart mechanics too. That's one example there's more. Opinions vary, not all products are snake oils, but some are.
Perhaps there are the needle in a haystack rarities that actually can do something, but in the game of additive roulette how do you know that what you put in your gas tank or crankcase might not make things WORSE off?
Problem is not one of the major snake oils that folks like to promote on BITOG have ever had INDEPENDENT
CERTIFIED LAB TESTS TO PROVE THEY DO ANYTHING AT ALL...
WHY? Could it be that it would be proven that these products are worthless? Nah, not possible, right?