09-10-2010, 05:19 PM
<!--sizeo:3--><!--/sizeo-->Was about to make another bulk purchase of this stuff and decided to do some reading on the company again. I came across this statement form the oil bible.
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Some unscrupulous manufacturers (and there's not many left that do this) will put a symbol on their packaging designed to look like the API symbol without actually being the API symbol. They do this in an effort to pump up the 'quality' of their product by relying on people not really knowing exactly what the proper API symbol should look like. To the left is an example of a fake symbol - it looks similar but as long as you remember what to look for, you won't get taken by this scam.
Amsoil are one of the biggest inadvertent offenders of the fake API symbol. Take a look at one of their labels here on the right. See that little starburst that says "Fuel efficient formula SL-CF"? It can say all it likes, but the fact of the matter is that this is absolutely not an API-certified SL or CF oil. To be fair, some Amsoil products are API certified and they do have the correct labelling, but their top-tier products do not. The issue of their lack of API certification on these products caused such a stir at Amsoil that they had to generate a FAQ to answer the most commonly-asked questions. You can find a copy of that here : Amsoil & API Licensing. It does explain everything logcially and clearly, and it's not scientific doublespeak. Which is nice.
Read more: [url=http://www.carbibles.com/engineoil_bible.html#ixzz0z9x3H1Ad"]http://www.carbibles.com/engineoil_bible.h...0z9x3H1Ad"[/url]
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I know a few here use the product faithfully, I just started using them last year. So far it seems average.
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Some unscrupulous manufacturers (and there's not many left that do this) will put a symbol on their packaging designed to look like the API symbol without actually being the API symbol. They do this in an effort to pump up the 'quality' of their product by relying on people not really knowing exactly what the proper API symbol should look like. To the left is an example of a fake symbol - it looks similar but as long as you remember what to look for, you won't get taken by this scam.
Amsoil are one of the biggest inadvertent offenders of the fake API symbol. Take a look at one of their labels here on the right. See that little starburst that says "Fuel efficient formula SL-CF"? It can say all it likes, but the fact of the matter is that this is absolutely not an API-certified SL or CF oil. To be fair, some Amsoil products are API certified and they do have the correct labelling, but their top-tier products do not. The issue of their lack of API certification on these products caused such a stir at Amsoil that they had to generate a FAQ to answer the most commonly-asked questions. You can find a copy of that here : Amsoil & API Licensing. It does explain everything logcially and clearly, and it's not scientific doublespeak. Which is nice.
Read more: [url=http://www.carbibles.com/engineoil_bible.html#ixzz0z9x3H1Ad"]http://www.carbibles.com/engineoil_bible.h...0z9x3H1Ad"[/url]
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I know a few here use the product faithfully, I just started using them last year. So far it seems average.
