Mobil is the least strait-forward and shady company I can think of. I was looking to see of the ~much vaunted~ 15w-50 is even available in Europe. Maybe someone can help out cutting through that virtual brick-wall to Euro-sites, but I think it is not. 0w-40 is their only "World" oil. So much for 15w-50 being deriguor in DTM and Touring Car classes, but somehow on this side of the Pond, they ONLY get 15w-50!
If 3/4 of NASCAR drivers use Mobil 1, it is surely a formula that nobody here has used, or even knows the composition and characteristics of. Why pretend that people here "know" what is being poured into ~any~ race car? Labels on bottles(upside down, so you can see them pouring it!), stickers on doors and retorical sylligisims are all part of Mobil's charade to make the dopey Americal oil consumer think the OTC "Racing" 15w-50 is the same shizz'em their NASCAR Lords are running.
"ok Cleatus, stack those cases of Mobil 1 high in the pit, let everyone see you pour a quart (laugh)
into that mystery blatter next to the oil filler (just kidding, it is either 15w-50 or more likely the familliar, although small for a race team, quart jug re-filled with their custom "extreme" forumla) A truely cynical person wouls say the jug was empty, lol.
...AND BE SURE NOT TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT IT, after all, we signed a non-disclosure agreement when we took Mobil's sponsorship money and their
necessary custom-formulated
actual race oil".
Yeah, right. Do the math and it is obvious why market-share is the overriding concern at Mobil. Let's call it "Mogul 1"! How hard it it to sponsor the NASCAR teams with a few stickers and stage some lame frat-quality stunts with the apparent race-oil, 15w-50 getting the nod? Give me a break. I probally know less about oils than many people here, but I know when to listen to a REAL EXPERT who races and rebuilds a dozen Porsche engines a year, and reject the mindless marketing ploys that SO many Gen Y people are unequipped to unravel inside their tiny heads. Ha, if anything NASCARs run on more of an AMSOIL/REDLINE-like product. Who cares, I don't. Whom do I have to
prove anything to anyway? Noone, not my problem. Did I somehow claim that one drop of Mobil 1 will seize a de-tuned street engine on contact? No, but that is the exaggerated account repeated mindlessly here.
If someone wants to be absorbed in the warm glow of TV-based product placement, go ahead. If someone else wants an cold honest account from a qualified automobile expert, that is what I am offering.
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Mechanics are another bunch that usually know very little about oil
Shure, why would they know anything?
Buster, go quiz Mr. Goodwrench if you want to feel like a big man, in my mechanics' circles, you are way out of your league.
You've somehow missed the irony of criticising internet oil advice when you strive the be that cracker inside the circle.
[ November 23, 2003, 11:04 PM: Message edited by: TSoA ]
