Re: Oil additives and Prolong

["Alex Ting" <alex@millenniumsolutions.net>]

yup, I agree.

all of that stuff is crap, developed so that
people with no understanding of how engines
work can spend $25 to not change their oil for
25,000 miles.


Alex Ting (Mobil synthetic only)

Millennium Solutions Group, Inc.
8303 Sierra College Blvd., Suite 150
Granite Bay, CA 95746

Phone: 888-801-2001 or 916-797-9998
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Email: alex@millenniumsolutions.net



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> From: Brett VanSprewenburg <brett@kodak.com>
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Oil additives and Prolong
> Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 10:11 AM
> 
> 
> 
> This message is making the rounds of the VW related mailings lists, and
there's been
> some talk about this kind of crap in the past. Here's yet another data
point...
> 
> ==Brett
> 
> 
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> 
> To: "'A-2_16V@connecticom.com'" <A-2_16V@connecticom.com>
> Subject: Oil additives and Prolong
> 
> Occasionally someone on the list asks about the benefits of using an
> oil-additive such as Slick-50.  Not surprisingly, the same thing happens
on
> the BMW digest. The below was posted recently. I found it funny and
thought
> that you might too.
> 
> 	I saw post asking about oil additives (specifically SLICK 50), 
> 	here is another good one.
> 
> 	Forwarded from NSX Digest.
> 	>In the October issue of Consumer Reports they made a note
> 	>about "Prolong engine treatment".
> 	>
> 	>(This is directly from the article)
> 	>
> 	>Prolong claims: "Creates a low-friction surface one molecule thick"
> 	>
> 	> The bond is supposed to last even when the oil is drained. In the
> 	>infomercial, Unser and others drive along a racetrack in the
> 	>Mojave Desert without oil or oil drain plugs. The same ad,
> 	>broadcast nationally, pictures a woman who, thanks to "Prolong"
> 	>supposedly drove from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles without oil.
> 	>(the reason she stopped after 4 hours,40 minutes, and 7 seconds?
> 	>...She was hungry.)
> 	>
> 	> We didn't test the other claims, but we did see whether "Prolong"
> 	>would protect an engine after the oil was drained.
> 	>
> 	> We installed a factory-rebuilt GM 4.3-liter V6 engine into each
> 	>of two Chevrolet Caprices. We broke them in with Pennzoil motor
> 	>oil, changed the oil and oil filter in each car, and added
> "Prolong"
> 	>to one of them. "Prolong" claims to work immediately. We drove
> 	>more than 100 miles, then drained the oil and started driving
> again.
> 	>After  only 13 minutes and  five miles,  BOTH engines failed
> 	>SIMULTANEOUSLY.
> 	>
> 	> Today's high-quality oils don't need extra additives. The Federal
> 	>Trade Commission has told the makers of other additives to stop
> 	>making false claims. We have notified the FTC about this test.
> 
> 
> Chris Williams
> 1990 GLI
> chris_williams@ml.com
> 
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