It's creative marketing IMO, which every oil company is guilty of... 4x better wear protection, Removes 46% sludge in the first... Blah Blah Blah... "Buy our product because we are superior than the rest" nonsense.
Again I will say... If you got sludge, you got other problems and shouldn't be relying on Pennzoil to cure them!
Would you put a bandage on a gushing severed artery? No you would fix the problem properly (at least I would hope), and put a bandage over it to help it along.
So in effect their claim while tested in a lab and true, 1 doesn't apply to most vehicles on the road, and 2 shouldn't be used as a cure-all for sludgers IMO. Or every car company would be running extreme oil temps and calling for Pennzoil.
Pennzoil is great stuff and I would use it in a heartbeat but that claim of 46% is hooey and they know they are praying on peoples guilt factor. That being "Don't you want the best for your vehicle?" and the notion that people need to think they are solving a problem (they don't really have) and somehow outdoing the rest by using Pennzoil Platinum.
As far as I'm concerned they can go back to the commercial where the guy had the pistons inside his chest and they were claiming performance you can feel. Instead of clean 46% of the peanut butter goo inside your engine with just one change.
OK I'm off the Soap-Box who's next?
Again I will say... If you got sludge, you got other problems and shouldn't be relying on Pennzoil to cure them!
Would you put a bandage on a gushing severed artery? No you would fix the problem properly (at least I would hope), and put a bandage over it to help it along.
So in effect their claim while tested in a lab and true, 1 doesn't apply to most vehicles on the road, and 2 shouldn't be used as a cure-all for sludgers IMO. Or every car company would be running extreme oil temps and calling for Pennzoil.
Pennzoil is great stuff and I would use it in a heartbeat but that claim of 46% is hooey and they know they are praying on peoples guilt factor. That being "Don't you want the best for your vehicle?" and the notion that people need to think they are solving a problem (they don't really have) and somehow outdoing the rest by using Pennzoil Platinum.
As far as I'm concerned they can go back to the commercial where the guy had the pistons inside his chest and they were claiming performance you can feel. Instead of clean 46% of the peanut butter goo inside your engine with just one change.
OK I'm off the Soap-Box who's next?
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