Ouch that hurt!

[Champane Flight]

Slimey snake oil salesman took my Amzoil 5-30 series 3000 and showed it up! Tell me where did I go wrong? His Royal Purple 5-30 sludge cannot be a better oil, tell me it aint so!!!! He did a timken wear test and it beat it hands down! Is it just the test? Is this RP just a one trick pony? Or should I challenge him to another test, maybe four ball wear test, or volatility? I wonder if his tastes better? I am still hurting, signed lubed, and screwed..... Help your fellow Amzoil dealer out in his hour of pain Obewon!!!

 

[dmhollister]

Was this an unbiased test? He may have done something to make the amzoil fail. Just a thought. If it is completed by a salesperson for one product and not an independant, it is hard to say.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

I know I'm a skeptic - but I really feel oil marketers use EXACTLY the tests that will make THEIR brand look better than the competition - Amsoil wallows in that famous "4-ball test" - others use their own selection that you can BET is used precisely BECAUSE it makes theirs LOOK better than the others.



If YOU dyno your truck 3 times in a row, making no changes to the engine during the process - and get 3 different maximum readings for each, WHICH one will you post here as the HP of your truck?



OR, if you dyno on 3 DIFFERENT dynos in a relatively short period of time - with widely varying maximum power results, which one will YOU use to brag about your truck's performance?



IF an oil refiner, synthetic or dino, sends out their product to a dozen different analyzers for testing, and gets varying results back, which result do ya suppose they will crow about in their advertising, the BEST one - or one of the mediocre ones - and will they even ADMIT to using other testers than the one they loudly brag about?



It's all about marketing hype, smoke and mirrors, and sleigh-of-hand. Pretty much ALL the latest name-brand oils, synthetic or otherwise, are truly great oils - but take these various "proofs of excellence" with a grain of salt - I seriously doubt they are actually worth the paper they're printed on as far as actual PROOF that one is significantly "better" than another!



As a point of fact, all the LONGEST running, documented trucks that have appeared on THIS site, have been using plain old standard dino oils like Rotella and Chevron - and have racked up over a MILLION miles on those oils, regardless of how "inferior" various tests might have "proved" them to be...



My . 02 cents worth...

 

[Forrest]

As a point of fact, all the LONGEST running, documented trucks that have appeared on THIS site, have been using plain old standard dino oils like Rotella and Chevron - and have racked up over a MILLION miles on those oils, regardless of how "inferior" various tests might have "proved" them to be...



My . 02 cents worth...

Well put Gary ... ditto.



Just use a good approved oil, change it regularly, use the right filter & thank the Cummins designers. You WILL win in the end.



nuff said