I recently posted that I had switched all the vehicles in my house to full synthetic and tried out some vmax oil additive. Well that's still true....sorta.
Both my tahoe and honda have about 130k roughly on the clock. I change the oil regularly on both. About every 3 changes I also drop the old oil, add fresh generic dino oil with a kerosene flush, then drop it again and add in my fresh oil to clean up the gallies etc.
I had decided a while back that I was tired of changing the oil so often and wanted a better oil. I switched both to RP and I was very impressed with the smoother acceleration and less slap on my v8. What I also decided to do on the 2nd to last oil change was try out VMAX oil additive.
Everyone by now has read the snake-oil writeups online that talk about how crappy these additives really are, how some can actually sludge up in your engine bc they have solids in some of them etcetc. After the court battles, VMAX was one of the very few companies, if not ONLY company that the federal government allowed to keep most of their original marketing claims.
So I thought I'd give it a shot, right? What could it harm? I won't claim to know exactly what happened here, but I do have a working theory. Here goes..
I changed both vehicles at the same time, both got RP synth and both about 3/4 a bottle of VMAX. I took out enough oil volume to make up for the added VMAX volume, pretty standard. Well, with 5k miles on the ticker for both vehicles on VMAX, and both vehicles had burned about a qt of oil. The only thing I can guess is that the VMAX thinned the oil out some, and that combined with being very effective at lubricating the cylinder walls in an older vehicle, allowed some oil to be burned.
Anyone have a similiar experience? Pretty scary..
B
Both my tahoe and honda have about 130k roughly on the clock. I change the oil regularly on both. About every 3 changes I also drop the old oil, add fresh generic dino oil with a kerosene flush, then drop it again and add in my fresh oil to clean up the gallies etc.
I had decided a while back that I was tired of changing the oil so often and wanted a better oil. I switched both to RP and I was very impressed with the smoother acceleration and less slap on my v8. What I also decided to do on the 2nd to last oil change was try out VMAX oil additive.
Everyone by now has read the snake-oil writeups online that talk about how crappy these additives really are, how some can actually sludge up in your engine bc they have solids in some of them etcetc. After the court battles, VMAX was one of the very few companies, if not ONLY company that the federal government allowed to keep most of their original marketing claims.
So I thought I'd give it a shot, right? What could it harm? I won't claim to know exactly what happened here, but I do have a working theory. Here goes..
I changed both vehicles at the same time, both got RP synth and both about 3/4 a bottle of VMAX. I took out enough oil volume to make up for the added VMAX volume, pretty standard. Well, with 5k miles on the ticker for both vehicles on VMAX, and both vehicles had burned about a qt of oil. The only thing I can guess is that the VMAX thinned the oil out some, and that combined with being very effective at lubricating the cylinder walls in an older vehicle, allowed some oil to be burned.
Anyone have a similiar experience? Pretty scary..
B
