Oil Additive

[Graves]

Searched and didn’t find what I was looking for.

Curious if anyone has done a qt of oil additive such as Lucas Oil in place of adding the last quart? Thought about supplementing a quart of my Motul for an additive to help prevent wear. Car only has 27,344 miles so not sure it really matters. I use the Lucas Oil in place of the 6th quart in my Ford Raptor and it does help the eco slut run better in my opinion.

Anyhow…thoughts?

[Tdog86]

Never add oil Additives, it’s all just a gimmick and a waste of money, you end up diluting or hurting your original oil additive package and composition.

[Sephrr]

You could do oil samples with Blackstone labs and see what comes from it. Even do it on your raptor

[Graves]

Originally Posted by Tdog86

Never add oil Additives, it’s all just a gimmick and a waste of money, you end up diluting your original oil additive package.

Great video and very interesting. Thank you.

[Graves]

Originally Posted by Sephrr

You could do oil samples with Blackstone labs and see what comes from it. Even do it on your raptor

I plan on doing that this fall when I stop driving the M3. Gonna do it to all 3 of my cars. Want to see what a sample looks like after driving in South Ga humidity and heat. Thank you!

[sergbaja5t]

If anything, I use Ceratec from Ligui-Moly.

[Graves]

Originally Posted by sergbaja5t

If anything, I use Ceratec from Ligui-Moly.

I bought some, but it says on the bottle do not use with Automatic transmissions. So I never used it.

[hellokitty]

Just use a stout LL-01 oil such as Castrol 0W-30. This is probably the best LL-01 oil you can buy at the moment with an extremely high % of PAO.

Oil additives will compete with existing anti-wear additives in the oil and cause worse performance compared to just using a good oil by itself.

https://www.amazon.com/Castrol-06244...dp/B007G7PUMS/

[Graves]

Originally Posted by hellokitty

Just use a stout LL-01 oil such as Castrol 0W-30. This is probably the best LL-01 oil you can buy at the moment with an extremely high % of PAO.

Oil additives will compete with existing anti-wear additives in the oil and cause worse performance compared to just using a good oil by itself.

https://www.amazon.com/Castrol-06244...dp/B007G7PUMS/

I appreciate the input. I really like the Motul oil I use. I might give the Castros whirl next oil change. Thank you.

[jasonmy]

Might be worth a shot, especially with relatively low mileage on your car.

[NORAGRETS]

Originally Posted by Tdog86

Never add oil Additives, it’s all just a gimmick and a waste of money, you end up diluting or hurting your original oil additive package and composition.

This^

[Graves]

Originally Posted by NORAGRETS

This^

I don’t think I am going to use an additive. The humidity in South Ga is retarded, last thing I need is my oil fighting each other.

[xwilkinx]

No additive is needed granted you are running a good oil with proper oil change intervals.

That being said I use MolySlip additive once a year. I’ve used it on all my M cars over the years, and when I changed the rod bearings on one of my E92 M3s (heavily tracked) around 60k miles, they had absolutely no wear which I attribute partially to MolySlip.