Lessons from a high mileage Harley
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Google up "bob is the oil guy." You'll never buy a fram again. However, in recent years, fram apparently noticed teh webz, y0, dissin' them. There's a forum somewhere where fram brought a bunch of forum posters to their factory and admitted that the base line fram oil filter was crap, but the next up model was much, much better and you should have been using that one anyway, dumbass. Also showed all the testing and results, etc. It was an interesting read and my take away from that was the base line filter is crap but the something-guard one is probably useable. I'm still not real happy about being BS'ed for decades on how good their stuff was supposed to be when they were selling known crap, and because of that I will only run Toyota, Wix or Super-tech (made by a good private label company, it's on the bob is the oil guy thing.) I think the super-tech ones are made by the same company that makes the HD ones, but do your own research.
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wasn't gonna weigh in, but I'll just throw this out there. Castrol went to court and had the definition of synthetic changed so that they could sell Dino oil as Synthetic. they do make a true synthetic, but just like Mobil/Amsoil you're gonna pay for it. I refuse to use their products due to deceptive advertising.
Castrol did not go to court to have the definition changed.
Castrol went to court because they were sued by Mobil over their use of the term Synthetic.
It was Castrols contention that they did so much modification to the original base oil, that it was a synthetic.
Castrol won the court case.
Deceptive Advertising.....Don`t both words mean the same thing?
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That is not what happened.
Castrol did not go to court to have the definition changed.
Castrol went to court because they were sued by Mobil over their use of the term Synthetic.
It was Castrols contention that they did so much modification to the original base oil, that it was a synthetic.
Castrol won the court case.
Deceptive Advertising.....Don`t both words mean the same thing?
Castrol did not go to court to have the definition changed.
Castrol went to court because they were sued by Mobil over their use of the term Synthetic.
It was Castrols contention that they did so much modification to the original base oil, that it was a synthetic.
Castrol won the court case.
Deceptive Advertising.....Don`t both words mean the same thing?
Either way, Castrol starting with a base oil, and calling it synthetic, which it isn't. I'm sure it's a good oil, but I'll never use it.
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It all came out of the earth, some may say none of it is really synthetic...
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5.1 Myths About Synthetic Oil: Why You Should Know The Facts | Cardwell Distributing Inc.
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