View Poll Results: Do you use an oil treatment
Yes
2
3.77%
No
51
96.23%
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Oil Treatment?
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Joined: October 9, 2007
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I do not use it in my new cars. IMHO if you take care and change your oil and keep the filter clean and in other words properly maintain your car like you should then it's not necessary even as insurance. I think they are nothing more than snake oil salesman. But that's just my opinion.
I put my faith in the Ford engineers.
I put my faith in the Ford engineers.
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Joined: February 24, 2012
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From: Ontario, Canada
In all my cars, exotics, DD, european models .... never have , never will.
I did have a car once (Benz) that burned a little oil around the 60,000kms mark , i believe i was using the factory recommended oil 10/30 at the time....around the 5,000km mark, seemed to be a quart down....and had to add until my next change at 8,000kms.
Once off warrenty, i went to Mobil 1 syn 5/50 .... never burned any of that oil again...went the full 7,000 - 8,000km oil change without adding. Ran fine until the 130,000kms before i traded it in.
Yes, was thicker, but never noticed any issues in that time frame winter,spring, summer or fall.
I did have a car once (Benz) that burned a little oil around the 60,000kms mark , i believe i was using the factory recommended oil 10/30 at the time....around the 5,000km mark, seemed to be a quart down....and had to add until my next change at 8,000kms.
Once off warrenty, i went to Mobil 1 syn 5/50 .... never burned any of that oil again...went the full 7,000 - 8,000km oil change without adding. Ran fine until the 130,000kms before i traded it in.
Yes, was thicker, but never noticed any issues in that time frame winter,spring, summer or fall.
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Joined: January 5, 2012
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From: Western Canada
Regardless what type of oil additive you use and whether they do what they are advertised to do, you shouldn't use them in brand new vehicles before they are broken in. the oil additive can prevent the piston rings to sit in a brand new engine, in theory.
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Joined: April 29, 2012
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From: SE Michigan
lol Hey all the more reason for them too advertise and explain why we should use it. I'm an IT person and by no means even near an intermediate on cars but wouldn't adding an oil treatment or additive change the viscosity of the existing oil?
