Oil Additive or SNAKEOIL Additive?

In recent years many companies have been introducing engine oil additives to the automotive repair market. Most of them give the impression that oil alone cannot give you the protection you need for today's engines. Although this may be true of petroleum based motor oils, it is, for the most part, not true of synthetics. If you want to protect your engines better and improve your fuel economy and performance, synthetic oils are definitely the way to go.

AMSOIL has been producing and marketing high quality extended drain synthetic oils for over 25 years and has billions of over the road test miles to show its performance and money saving characteristics. Oil additives, on the other hand, have been shown in many tests to give marginal performance and/or fuel economy improvements. Moreover, many oil additives have been shown to actually increase engine wear. In the final analysis, the question is: Do you want to waste your money on snakeoil or on the "real deal"? AMSOIL is the "real deal".

The article that follows provides a very good analysis of what oil additives can do (or not do) to your engine. It was written by Fred Rau in Road Rider Magazine (now Motorcycle Consumer News) and is for informational purposes only. MCN in no way endorses the products of Amsoil, or any other lubrication company.

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