RE: [T3] Oil additives?

["Erkson, Toby" <toby.erkson@intel.com>]

There is no need to put oil additives in your oil.  First, there isn't
enough conclusive proof that such additives work.  Most are hit and miss and
coincidental.  If you want your engine to run without oil then dowse it with
water like they show on the commercial -- the flowing water cools 

picates so of course the engine is still gonna run!

Adding Teflon is a joke.  It requires very high temperatures to get the
stuff to bond to metal and the only area that you will find these temps are
*inside* the combustion chamber.  The stuff ends up floating around clogging
up oil passages or getting [properly] trapped in the oil filter.  Adding it
to an air-cooled VW engine that is experienced is even worse as it will
loosen up any deposits and bring about an early demise.

Use a quality motor oil that has detergents in it (these keep deposits from
forming) and change it as required and your engine will last.  If you want
superior lubrication then switch to a pure synthetic oil, then you won't
need additives and you'll enjoy easier cold morning starts as well.  But
don't use pure synthetic if your engine is experienced as the synthetic may
breakup deposits and do to your engine what the additive could do.  The best
time to use synthetic is after the (rebuilt) engine has been broken in.
   Toby Erkson
   air_cooled_nut@pobox.com  <-- Please use this address for email
   '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L, Berg five-speed
   '75 Porsche 914 1.8L, ORPCA member
   '95 VW Jetta GL 2.0L, boringly bone-stock
   Portland, Oregon, http://www.pobox.com/~toby_erkson/

>-----Original Message-----
>I keep noticing oil additives like Slick-50 that claim to 
>reduce friction
>and wear in the engine. They're supposed to last over oil 
>changes too - I
>sortof remember a commercial where they pulled the oil drain 
>plug while the
>engine was running (after they had added the additive) and it 
>kept running.

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