Did I mess up my car? (by making a Lucas additive cocktail in my oil pan)
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Did I mess up my car? (by making a Lucas additive cocktail in my oil pan)
I just added Lucas Synthetic Oil Stabilizer in with Royal Purple 5w20 for my oil change. Is this a bad decision?
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But dont go back to regular after you used synthetic tho :P and no you are fine...i dont think adding extra stuff to royal purple will help anything its just like those octane boost lmao.
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F'ed Up IS
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Why are you adding **** to your oil? Motor oil manufacturers spend millions of dollars to get the chemistry just right in their products. If adding an oil stabilizer helped don't you think they would have done it already? If you're so concerned get a better oil. Royal Purple is expensive junk anyway.
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**Yes I know this maybe off-topic, but I just had to comment on the "out-of-the-blue" comment. I wasn't really think I was gonna see this post in here.**
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also in some cases the lucas starts to foam, which is a real bad thing. check it out http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/images/lucas/lucas.htm
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You really don't need that particular product. That is a good product from Lucas, but more so for large trucks and more powerful engines that get a really good benefit from it. However, as was mentioned above it won't hurt.
I can tell that I have known racers over the years who run Royal Purple and it always seems to run 'heavy.' If the car normally runs W30 they run W40, etc., so that 5W20 should run you just fine by itself. Only other kind of oil I know that is like this is my favorite, Castrol 0W30 which has the characteristics of a W40 oil.
How much of this stuff did you toss in their BTW?
I can tell that I have known racers over the years who run Royal Purple and it always seems to run 'heavy.' If the car normally runs W30 they run W40, etc., so that 5W20 should run you just fine by itself. Only other kind of oil I know that is like this is my favorite, Castrol 0W30 which has the characteristics of a W40 oil.
How much of this stuff did you toss in their BTW?