Motor Oil Matters-API fights back

[fdcg27]

API appears to be trying to establish a licensing program for motor oil installers, distrubutors and marketers.
See ths link:

http://www.motoroilmatters.org/Industry-Members?gclid=CI2tiNCekroCFQua4AoddCYAww

How many unwary consumers have been stung by the installation or purchase of unsuitable motor oil?
Could this be API's repsonse to PQIA's outting of a number of unsuitable products offered on store shelves that claim on their labels some vague reference to an API licensed standard?
The home page of this site even has a "Report Abuse" tab, to allow users to report the sale or installation of unsuitable motor oil products.
I hope that API is serious about going after those who sell unlicensed and unsuitable products with references to any API standard on their labels.
I found this site linked from an ad on pprune while I was surfing through a long thread on the VC-10, a plane kind of like a supersized BAC 111 that had the capacity of a Boeing 707 and four RR Conways mounted on the aft fuselage. And you all thought that the 707 and DC-8 had no British competitor.

 

[RamFan]

I am all for accountability from shops, it could indirectly cause the workers in these places to become more educated on the subject as well.

 

[strat81]

Originally Posted By: fdcg27
The home page of this site even has a "Report Abuse" tab, to allow users to report the sale or installation of unsuitable motor oil products.


How about a button to report the unsuitable installation of a suitable motor oil product?

Missing filler caps, improperly torqued drain bolts, stripped drain bolts, not changing the filter, etc...

 

[Plumber]

Most states cannot even enforce a plumbing license...sounds like a great way to weed out the slackers and MAKE SOME REVENUE!

 

[jake88]

There is still so much confusion about current oil specs and the meaning of current API trademarks for the average consumer - they had better DELIVER SOME EDUCATION to the consumer if they are going to push suppliers into buying another trademark that will appeal to 10% of the market (the BITOG demographic), but which 90% of consumers will not even notice.

My understanding is that there is a little packet of literature and a doormat for the installers when they become a licensee... that is not a great advertising push to help installers out that are competing to sell changes against providers with cheaper, inferior fluids.

 

[PandaBear]

Why do they need a licensing program for something that can be done in 5 seconds (read the label)?

Sounds like a money grab to me.

 

[daves87rs]

Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Why do they need a licensing program for something that can be done in 5 seconds (read the label)?

Sounds like a money grab to me.


While I agree, we are talking about the same kind of people who buy the cheapest thing in the local gas station or mart....