Originally Posted By: airbusdrvr
I know Lucas products are not a favored product here and I have never used any of them but if they are as bad as everyone says they are on BITOG wouldn't there have been a class action lawsuit against Lucas by now? Remember the class action lawsuit against Slick 50? As litigious as society has become I'm sure some law group would have went after Lucas by now if their product was purely useless.
Here is their description:
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A pure petroleum multi-use oil supplement. Controls noise, heat and wear in manual transmissions and differentials. Number one in the heavy duty and high performance industries.
Lucas Oil Stabilizer is a 100% petroleum product formulated to eliminate dry starts and reduce friction, heat and wear in any type of engine. It allows motor oils a higher degree of lubricity which reduces oil consumption and operating temperatures. Use Lucas Oil Stabilizer in gear oil to stop leaks, reduce operating temperatures and increase the life of the gear oil. Since it is pure petroleum, it can safely blend with all other automotive lubricants, even synthetics, ATF and mineral oil. It keeps old engines alive and new engines new.
In Ford Powerstrokes we suggest one quart of Pure Synthetic Oil Stabilizer per oil change.
KEY BENEFITS
Increase oil life at least 50% longer
Reduces oil consumption
Eliminates dry starts
Raises oil pressure
Increases power and miles per gallon
Let's break it down to see why a lawsuit against it would fail:
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A pure petroleum multi-use oil supplement. Controls noise, heat and wear in manual transmissions and differentials.
All technically true, though what "control" it exhibits is not mentioned.
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Number one in the heavy duty and high performance industries.
Unspecific regarding what it is actually "number one" at accomplishing.
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Lucas Oil Stabilizer is a 100% petroleum product formulated to eliminate dry starts and reduce friction, heat and wear in any type of engine.
All may be technically true, though I could "formulate an oil to shoot rainbows out of the tailpipe of cars", and describe it as such. Whether it acutally accomplishes this feat is irrelevant.
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It allows motor oils a higher degree of lubricity which reduces oil consumption and operating temperatures.
Compared to what;
High performance oil?
Acetone?
Water?
Air?
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Use Lucas Oil Stabilizer in gear oil to stop leaks, reduce operating temperatures and increase the life of the gear oil.
Just a command with no claims made.
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Since it is pure petroleum, it can safely blend with all other automotive lubricants, even synthetics, ATF and mineral oil.
Yes it can be "safely blended". How it affects the performance of those products is not mentioned.
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It keeps old engines alive
Questionable, but impossible to prove true or false unless you can create alternate parallel timelines to compare
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and new engines new.
Our attachment to the physics of this universe keeps new engines new. So the fact it does not create a wormhole or a portal through time makes this statement technically true.
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In Ford Powerstrokes we suggest one quart of Pure Synthetic Oil Stabilizer per oil change.
Just a suggestion with no claims of its effect
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Increase oil life at least 50% longer
50% longer than what;
the life of a gnat?
the last 2000 years?
a normal oil change interval?
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Reduces oil consumption
Compared to what and measured how?
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Eliminates dry starts
Technically true, though the oil already in use also accomplishes this
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Raises oil pressure
Likely true
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Increases power and miles per gallon
Compare to what?
So you see, "marketing" allows for many words without actually saying much of anything. It is a carefully crafted statement that gives little guarantees and only vague ideas of what it might accomplish.