Re: Amsoil vs Mobil1

It is a non rated product that is NOT superior to anything!! It's nothing but multilevel marketing hype and you know it, or are you that stupid??

Tom J

Prove it. All Mobil 1 oils are API certified; no so with AmSOIL (emphasis on the SOIL).

-- Jim

Yes! and the dimwits that pass it off as certified oil specified as manufacturer approved and only back track or crawl into the bushes when called on their lying!!

Tom J who wonders where the FTC is hiding on this one?

Now I don't want to pick nits but using superior as a modifier for equivalent is oxymoronic. It is either superior or it is equivalent but it cannot be both.

snipped-for-privacy@mchsi.com (Dale Randall) wrote in :

Yes, that's the ticket: Let's all just sing a chorus of "Kum By Yah" and all wrongs will be put right (and AmSOIL will be API certified).

-- Jim

I have used Amsoil and I presently use Mobil 1. Back in the 70s, Amsoil was the only synthetic that was readily available to the public. My father-in-law, a J.I.Case dealer, opted into an Amsoil distributorship. We all lived in Montana at the time and a 100% synthetic oil had lots of strong points when the thermometer dropped to below zero for days on end. I especially liked the syn gear oil and grease as it sure made shifting easier and gas mileage was in fact, better. After a while, my FIL stopped selling the stuff. It was just too expensive and the major oil companies were offering something similar for far less.

I really only have a couple of gripes against the company; that is that their advertising is questionable at best and they exercise very little control over their distributors. So little in fact that wildly exaggerated claims and spurious testimonials abound. For that reason and the price, I simply won't use the product any more. The stuff works, but no better than Mobil 1 or Ford synthetic and both of those are cheaper and API certified. To my mind, Amsoil just isn't worth the fuss.

LOL! :)

I have a testamonial about AmSoil...

Anyway I was running some in a slightly souped up aircooled VW in the late 80's and like you say it's hard to get sometimes and so I changed to Mobil-1.

It wouldn't idle. I had to set the idle up for it to idle on Mobil-1. That's my -latest- experience with it.

We used to run Am-Z-oil in our 4 stroke dirt bikes (mid 70's) and it was the same thing, idled too fast when switched to amZoil and idled too slow, maybe not at all, when switching to something else including Mobil1. Had to adjust the idle everytime no kidding.

The motorcycles just felt stronger and quicker somehow with amZoil in it too, might have been our imagination since we couldn't measure it but when switching back the engine just felt less powerful. With those dirt bikes the engine oil is the transmission gear oil too.

I use Mobil1 in my '75 F150 ever since it got over hauled and the

360 FE engine doesn't leak/loose it anymore. :) It wasn't dripping on the ground that much and it wasn't smoking but the stinkin oil would disappear in that old sucker almost like it was a chevy engine. ;) The re-builder said it was the heads and (lack of?) valve seals.

But can anyone explain what we were experiencing with the idle changes? (I friggin asked, so insults are not un-called for;)

Alvin in AZ

Auwww, you beat me to it. :)

Good for a laugh though. "Superior equivalent"... HA!

Jim