I will still call this a forum a pile-on and overreaction to a purportedly legitimate company with a licensed API product.
Would I buy, try or use the stuff? likely not. I would require more data and validation e.g.: VOA with UOA follow-up.
Then, the containers would need to be on the clearance table up the street at my local CARPARTS joint for cheap.
Another negative, more egregious than TRIAX misuse of terms like Nano Technology, they did NOT respond to my email yesterday - though I have an odd address and my query likely went straight into the SPAM folder.
I have absolutely NO skin in the game here, my defense of this Ghost Ship is haggard. I am out.
- Arco
We've had some previous threads on the subject, that now no longer exist, but one of them involved a discussion around a claim that a product met conflicting approvals
There's more history that unfortunately can't be discussed, but suffice to say, a lot of this has been beat-up, rehashed and even "discussed" (more like a WWE event) with a rep from the company on here at one point, and I don't find doubling-down on what people are taking issue with (the outrageous marketing) as helpful.
The API approvals, as you know, put a product in a box. You are limited on what you can do within that box and still be approved. The limits on phosphorous for example, base oil interchange restrictions...etc. This goes doubly for if you are just buying a pre-approved additive package from Lubrizol/Afton/Infineum/Oronite, like is the case for most small blenders, companies who don't have the resources of say ExxonMobil/Shell/Infineum to develop and test product-specific additive packages that can then be formally approved, which costs considerable sums of money.
So if you are taking Afton cookie cutter "formula B" that's API SP, Ford WSS-blah blah, Dexos 1 Gen 3 and producing a licensed product, that means you are working within the restrictions, like base oil, that Afton has imposed on that additive package and if you are doing any top-treating, this must also be within the limits imposed. This is your box. So, if this is your situation, you aren't adding Mondo Engobulator 9 billion to it, because it would not longer be able to carry the approval. If we look at Royal Purple, that's exactly what took place with their Synerlec additive, those products were not API approved, neither was/is Redline white bottle due to its amount of top-treatment, or AMSOIL's SS oils, even though they have API-compliant levels of phosphorous.
This is sort of where the wheels come off the trolley, because while the API mandates a minimum level of performance, it also restricts additives like phosphorous, so if you are going to play in their sandbox, you really can't simultaneously claim to be in their box while offering performance that's worlds outside it.
tingle but it’s not needed; the HT/HS is what’s going to keep your engine working well in these cases. I’ve accumulated well over 800k miles on various boxers following this regimen with zero oil-related issues.
