Dear Scotty, I've been watching your blogs on You Tube for awhile now and like your"tell it like you see it" attitude. Your knowledge and experience are mainly what I've seen in my working on cars for about 30 years. your opinions you give me will be highly respected and pondered in my thoughts. it won't be brushed off or taken lightly. i know there's no substitution for changing oil and filters etc, are the best way to keep your engine internals in it's best condition, no doubt about that! I just want to know what you think about this oil additive called Bestline lubrications. how could they fake all the live tests? have you seen them? 1} the running engine in the water2}the bearing spinning in a bath verses other name brand additives 3} lemon law motor for destruction with glass beads 4}run car for 50 m,iles, then drive back after cutting off radiator hose ,draining coolant and in a separate independent test, a side by side small engine "run till break" test. Bestline verses 10/30 oil . break in time drain out and run till it stops. the engine oil one stopped after spinning the con rod bearings. The Bestline engine ,if I remember lasted 38 minutes longer {been a long time since I've watched that video} all I got from that was Bestline had a protective coat or something that made it resist the friction and heat longer but ended with engine destruction. what do you think about this product? also it recommends not to use with Toyota brand oil??!! I've been wanting to ask your opinion for a long time and wondered if you had any experience with this additive . how, if done did they fake their tests. Just wanted to know your thoughts. Thank you, Randy
Marketing departments can and will spin anything to make their product look great. Manipulating stats is one easy way, but those additives are like a magic show: nobody knows how all the smoke and mirrors work, but everyone knows it isn't actually magic.
BG, AMS Oil, etc. all market their products this way.
Let me tell you I've dealt with independent oil companies they can fake everything if they really want to. I've even had company send me stuff and then they said here's the scientist who tested it and when I contacted the scientist they said they'd never done such a test and would never do such nonsense because it's made up. And of course the only real test of an oil is driving it real cars for hundreds of thousands of miles testing on a bench with particular test may have no relevance to what actually goes on inside an engine where the oil is heated up exploding gasoline effects it cooling system effects it all kinds of variables the testing doesn't truly analyze correctly
Yep. Smoke and mirrors.
As the renowned write Poe once said: "Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."
Snake oil salesman are highly experienced at sleight-of-hand, rigging fake tests that frequently have no connection to real-world use in order to make it appear their product will work. Modern oils have had untold millions of dollars worth of research and development put into them for over a century. Additives are not needed and may well do harm.
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Regardless of how they pulled it off, one thing is clear: no one needs to add additives to their engine oil if they change their engine oil and filter often (usually every 5,000 miles or once a year) and make sure the oil meets the specifications outlined in their owner's manual. Save your money for the oil changes.
How can they fake this additive test against other name brand additives that failed? the bearing in bath against spinning motor, with weights, the running engine in water tank, engine runs after glass beading . or the independent run till it stops but ends with a destroyed engine? what do you think? I respect your opinion.
Do not post the same question multiple times please. It's clearly stated in the forum rules ('Welcome' topic).
Otherwise I'm going to think you're trying to shill products here. 🙂