Amsoil for engine oil

Half? Wow.

Margins on some unrelated non-essential products can be rather large. Food in volume can have razor thin margins.

Funny story also not lube related. New product. Accounting does their thing and said "we will lose $2 on every one we sell". Someone yells out "we will make it up in volume"

 

Amsoil has been around so long and is supposedly so magical, why cant I just go to a local retailer and buy it off the shelf ? Is it located in the snake oil aisle by any chance ?

 

I can’t follow your point. You start off by asking why it isn’t found on a local retailer’s shelf then ask what aisle it is in.

 

If you don’t like Amsoil don’t use it.

 

Amsoil sells their products through their system just as Toyota sells their products through their system. Aside from a couple of select oil filters I can’t seem to find Toyota parts at local retailers either. I guess Toyota parts are snake oil. Come to think of it…some of them are. E.g. timing cover, coolant bypass pipe, the howling diff, the lost transmission, the weeping brake light, etc

 

Snake oil is typically used to define something that is deceptive. What is deceptive about Amsoil?

I believe Amsoil is a quality product just like many other oils. I typically find people comment that their higher pricing doesn’t justify the product as compared to others and that is a perfectly fair opinion. What I don’t recall ever seeing are comments about how their product doesn’t meet OEM recommended requirements. Care to enlighten us @AM6217 on how Amsoil products are a complete farce?

 

Amsoil was first in synthetics.

 

And is the only 100% synthetic too.

Why do many oil companies work hard to call their oils as “Full” synthetic and try and fool people? Why not just say 30% synthetic? If 30% synthetic is BETTER than 100% I for sure would be pushing that message.

 

Take a breath buddy. It’s only an oil discussion. Your taking his comment the wrong way

 

Your perception powers are weak my friend. I could care less what anyone uses and that is supported by my lack of oil opinion posts. Wondered why one thought it was snake oil and that got me thinking about full vs 100%. I’m here to learn so school me beatle. I love to learn which is why I frequent this place. Amazingly talented and clever people here.

 

Many amsoil products are good, but some oils like their 2 stroke interceptor is garbage. I've taken apart engines run with it. You'd find the engine internals dry, some even showing light surface rust forming, yet many will buy it, and it's not that cheap.

 

Many believe, as I probably do, that a great product in a manufacture’s line applies across their entire product line. As you’ve described here, that’s not necessarily true.

When I learn of things like this I oftentimes wonder if this is a deliberate approach- make a single quality product and prove it out and lead everyone to believe the remaining products are equally as good. If nothing else, it’d be a clever approach.

 

I've given that some thought too. Amsoil has a very good 2 stroke oil called dominator that costs about the same, yet their interceptor is junk. Nether are real cheap when compared to other brands. When it comes to amsoil products, I use mostly their severe gear oil which isn't cheap either but its good stuff.

 

When I think about it , it makes sense. Nobody is going to expend engineering cost to products that don’t, or won’t, have the sales volume to justify that investment. Note to self, stick with high volume proven products and don’t assume it applies equally to their other products.

 

I'm running the severe gear 75-90 in my Diffs and Transfer Case. I don't mind the additional cost as I only change those out about every 2 years (30K miles).

 

Amsoil is the only 100% synthetic on the market?

 

OEM 0/20 with an OEM filter works well for me.

 

Are there others?

 

Thanks for this info

 

Im doing Kirkland 5w-30.