Lake speed Jr inside Valvoline R&D lab to investigate their restore and protect
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I’m most of the way through this video already and it’s quite interesting. It seems like this oil is for real and isn’t just marketing hype.
I wonder if that oil would help reduce intake valve deposits on a direct injected engine.
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Do you guys really see this as anything but a thinly veiled ad?
Edit: I'm in the middle of watching it now. Valvoline R&D is claiming that they are the only PCMO company that has their own engine test lab. Do we have anybody here who can credibly dispute that? I find it mighty hard to believe that XOM or Shell doesn't have their own engine test lab too.
Edit: I'm in the middle of watching it now. Valvoline R&D is claiming that they are the only PCMO company that has their own engine test lab. Do we have anybody here who can credibly dispute that? I find it mighty hard to believe that XOM or Shell doesn't have their own engine test lab too.
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Looks like it only comes in 20-30wt flavors. Wonder if they will make a euro 40wt version
Ahhhh yes, the ever elusive Nunya molecule.
I thought Mobil has one, didn't I see it on Lake's channel?????
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I thought I saw a Mobil engine test lab video too, but I think it was an Engineering Explained video.
YEP, you got it. It was on that channel.
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The only way to spin it for Valvoline is that initially I thought, "well maybe this isn't actually Mobil's own engine test lab, but a contract lab instead". But at the 6:55 mark in the video, the signage outside says "Mobil 1 Mileage Accumulation Dynamometers" and they're using real/whole vehicles to simulate road use. I don't see how this is inferior to Valvoline's lab like Valvoline seems to be implying.
Also, the Mobil testing video starts immediately with an announcement that it's a sponsored partnership. I appreciate that transparency.
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Castrol/BP has/had one in Pangbourne England. I can't verify that it's still there but I can't imagine these major oil corporations relying on SWRI to do their R&D for them. I am going to take the Valvoline claim purely as a from of poetic license in this regard.
Maybe others aren’t ASTM certified labs?
Only if you ingest it. Rectally for greater effect.
the fact they added writing to the video saying "ASTM certified lab" every single time Valvoline made the claim, tells me they realized clarification was needed.
it's not like they're following a script so I think it's fair
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Watching this video, how it's structured, the topics it brings up and the subject it touches, I'm convinced that "they" are reading and watching this forum. And "they" are the industry at large. Nice! 
most definitely, market research is big business now. if it isn't the company monitoring it, its a contract firm.Watching this video, how it's structured, the topics it brings up and the subject it touches, I'm convinced that "they" are reading and watching this forum. And "they" are the industry at large. Nice!
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