Any additive/cleaner for SEVERE driving condition?

[Clevy]

Liqui-moly makes a few additives that have shown mpg improvements in every engine I've put them in. From my Honda engine'd air compressors to my generators.
One is called MOS2. It's molybdenum disulfide. In my experience with it it's improved fuel consumption in everything I've put it in.
The other is called cera-tec. It's hard to find in Canada so I ordered it from the states. Thus far I can't really tell about fuel efficiency since my truck idles 10-12 hours a day running to and from different sites,sitting onsite with trades etc however when I bought the truck I couldnt get better than 14-15 mpg driving out to my girls house. Same route and driving habits get better than 17 now and a couple times I had the mileage counter hit 21mpg.
I've only been able to find liqui-moly products at napa.
The companies products thus far have done exactly what they said they would do,and their oils are held in high regard in Europe,based on some European members anecdotes.
Try em. Worst case scenario you don't like them and drain it out.
There are countless threads on mos2. I suggest reading them.

 

[Voltmaster]

Just keep changing your oil often,

There is no reason to spend money on additive unless your engine is doing really bad.

Car's get old, you can change everything on there to brand new, but might as well get new car if you need to spend that much on it.

Do an oil analysis , if you dont want poor wear just keep doing what you do.

 

[Mystic]

I have been trying to direct people's attention to the photographs that Falcon_LS has in the post 'I tried Auto-RX for 1,500 miles...' He used an engine cleaning product for 22,000 miles and did not get much in the way of results. And he physically cleaned parts of the engine and then he used Pennzoil Platinum motor oil. If anybody will take a look at the photographs he took it is AMAZING how much the Pennzoil Platinum cleaned. Sure, he did some physical cleaning on the engine, but not that much. After he used the Pennzoil Platinum the engine was MUCH CLEANER! Not perfectly clean, but a definite improvement.

I will dare to say that the typical engine cleaning product will do no better. I guess since nobody seems to be paying any attention I will have to start a separate post on all of this.

If Pennzoil Platinum cleans this well why even use a special engine cleaning product? All a person would have to do is change oil and use Pennzoil Platinum motor oil.

 

[Clevy]

Originally Posted By: Mystic
I have been trying to direct people's attention to the photographs that Falcon_LS has in the post 'I tried Auto-RX for 1,500 miles...' He used an engine cleaning product for 22,000 miles and did not get much in the way of results. And he physically cleaned parts of the engine and then he used Pennzoil Platinum motor oil. If anybody will take a look at the photographs he took it is AMAZING how much the Pennzoil Platinum cleaned. Sure, he did some physical cleaning on the engine, but not that much. After he used the Pennzoil Platinum the engine was MUCH CLEANER! Not perfectly clean, but a definite improvement.

I will dare to say that the typical engine cleaning product will do no better. I guess since nobody seems to be paying any attention I will have to start a separate post on all of this.

If Pennzoil Platinum cleans this well why even use a special engine cleaning product? All a person would have to do is change oil and use Pennzoil Platinum motor oil.


Very good point.

 

[skyship]

Originally Posted By: Mystic
I have been trying to direct people's attention to the photographs that Falcon_LS has in the post 'I tried Auto-RX for 1,500 miles...' He used an engine cleaning product for 22,000 miles and did not get much in the way of results. And he physically cleaned parts of the engine and then he used Pennzoil Platinum motor oil. If anybody will take a look at the photographs he took it is AMAZING how much the Pennzoil Platinum cleaned. Sure, he did some physical cleaning on the engine, but not that much. After he used the Pennzoil Platinum the engine was MUCH CLEANER! Not perfectly clean, but a definite improvement.

I will dare to say that the typical engine cleaning product will do no better. I guess since nobody seems to be paying any attention I will have to start a separate post on all of this.

If Pennzoil Platinum cleans this well why even use a special engine cleaning product? All a person would have to do is change oil and use Pennzoil Platinum motor oil.


Doing as much physical cleaning as possible and then switching to a high detergent oil with a short initial OCI is one good idea and I'm glad Falcon has proved the method described in many maintenance manuals works.

 

[Trajan]

Yeah, but in that same nearly four year oild thread that those pics came from, are pics that show an engine cleaning product *did* work.

 

[ottotheclown]

Please just change the oil at 3k like we here in NYC have done for 60 years.