Flashy Advertising at the Parts Store

NickMaul

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So what says ye villagers of NC4x4, is this lube advertising anything to look into? I am aware of dry lube after researching how to maintain heim joints and winch cables. It's hard to see but the can of dry lube is $12.99

Seems priced pretty average for stuff that squirts out of a spray can :confused:

There have to be some chemical gurus who can chime in on if this seems like new stuff or just re-glorified age old chemicals.


 
I don't have a clue what that shit does but it must be awesome b/c it has a picture of an apache on it. If it's good enough for the military it's good enough for me.
 
It's going to be a lubricant with nano particles in it, like nano sized ball bearings.
Millers Oils had engine and gearbox products out in 2009, and there was a lot of fanfare in the racing world but then I haven't seen much about it since. I know they've been working with a lot of teams in a lot of race series for evaluation, but not with a lot of advertising.

I'm not really sure I'd trust the claims of a product like this sold at a generic parts store. It's going to be a lot more expensive, and they're going to have to make big claims to justify the asking price. I usually consider consumer-grade products of this type that are made for passenger cars to be expensive snake oil, until proven otherwise. Could be amazing, but I'll wait for actual rigorous test results before I'll be convinced. Might work great for helicopters, and might not have any appreciable benefit to passenger cars. Either way, most everything I've even seen on lubricants with nano additives is related to highly loaded engines and gearboxes, and there is almost no real information on NanoPro MT except a lot of "It's great, buy it!" type of stuff on their web site.

Plus, sticking nano additives into every product that you can put a barcode on doesn't mean tangible improvements to all of those products.

I just have to shake my head at things like the coolant. If you don't have cooling problems with your stock Toyota Camry when you're using standard coolant in the standard cooling system, adding special shit to the coolant isn't going to net any benefits. If you do need to put special shit in the coolant to work properly, fix your cooling system. Your Camry is not a race car, and it doesn't drive around town at high engine load.

I'm also not a great fan of generic oil additives. Anything that you can put into your oil, any oil, is going to be a generic product, and is going to displace what is already in there. If the additive is that great, make an oil with it, and then sell that oil. Then you have an actual formulated product, not an additive product that supposedly works in any one of a huge range of independent oil formulations. I wouldn't readily mix different brands/types/weights of oils randomly in the same engine, and I wouldn't put a generic oil additive into the engine for the same reason.
 
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Doesn't the military just use whoever is the lowest bidder that can meet the minimum requirements? :lol:
Yeah but the lowest bid could be $30 a gallon for $2 oil.
Or, whatever is supplied by the "small business" that is owned by a minority female regardless of the price.
 
Doesn't the military just use whoever is the lowest bidder that can meet the minimum requirements? :lol:

Or, whatever is supplied by the "small business" that is owned by a minority female regardless of the price.

The same people that build all your local/state/fed government owned buildings as well.. don't forget that..
 
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