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Hi,
I have to say that you are probably worrying about a bunch of nothing.
For several years now the petroleum industry has been lowering the amount of that stuff in oil.
Engine failures have not been an issue or you would be hearing a great big roar of outrage.
If you had been looking at the symbols on all oils they have been showing us that the oil is being revised to meet the manufacturers requirements.
They use to be SF back in the seventies and slowly progressing through the alphabet.
The latest is SN, of which, I can say in my mind is that they have finally went to labeling it correctly.
The “N” which means “None” is in there.
With each change up through the alphabet the response to that change the petroleum institute is trying to find ingredients to make oils meet or exceed certain requirements and most of all they have not put any disclaimers that the oil is not backwards compatible for its intended service.
It’s a “Joe” consumer quality assurance thing but more importantly an industrial one.
Airliners, Fleets and Earthmovers, ect.
We’re talking big time equipment costs if standards are not provided.
The big deal here is where the oil in service. Diesels requirements are different as well with their viscosities. You don’t see zero weight oil for them.
With the latter word in the former sentence being a factor.
There has been an energy savings kick playing out towards consumers, especially those with NASCAR propaganda advertisements tingling inside their brains.
Are you a NASCAR fan and a cruiser of the additives aisle?
I suggest you leave oils alone.
You could get more savings by not running your headlights in the brightness of daytime! IMHO.
There are so many people trying to blame their accidents or actions on I didn’t see the vehicle coming!
Before you know it they drive only looking for bright lights.
Probably good for motorcycles up to a point, but you can still will get bit by a mosquito because you were looking for fireflies. (:-) Bites come in many different ways. (:-(
So with that, there are snake oil people out there looking gimmicks to sell.
There was a problem with yesterday’s oils. Chemistry has come a long ways and ZDDP was the answer for the times.
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a market-driven global company serving customers in more than 100 countries. The NYSE is not normally always good for America or the world over profits.
Yep, about .3 to 1% as an additive was advertised in Pennzoil. Never saw any difference.
I have never been fond of that or the Quaker State brand either.
Especially after the latter got sued for lots of engines being damaged back in my days.
They really did good hiding that fact. Some still remember and I can still speculate with suspicions.
There is now top and bottom tier gasolines, so, why not oils.
The API does a great job of holding the line of standards made and that licensing symbol.
If it doesn’t have a API symbol you might want to back away.
The Europeans have very similar standards to fight off what surrounds them over there too.
Imagine no distant watery shores between the cultures but then China and Asia is everywhere with the knockoffs not being a new idea either?
Before API, I remember as a kid, adding quarts of bulk oil from glass jugs into peoples engines.
I filled from a 55 gallon drum kept in a back room.
Other quarts came in cans that required a pushed in oil spout. I still have one of those, but no cans whatsoever!
Gone the way of ZDDP I reckon?
My advice,
Be aware of any holy grails of anything.
Now I’m back to my first sentence.
Phil
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