What additive do you use?

I was trying to choose between all the additives that are out there and I thought I'd see what some of you guys might be using.

I've been using Pro-long every 50,000 miles on my old vehicle. So right now I was thinking about just sticking with that on my truck. Any comments?

Additives are BAD. Use a good quality motor oil instead of pouring crap in your engine.

liek he said use good oil and premium gas if youre worried about your fuel system:waytogo:

What's bad about them exactly?

What's good about them is a better question. Have you ever seen any info substantiating the manufacturer claims...besides the crap that you can drive for half the day with the ac on up a mountain with no oil in the crank after using prolong. Haha, I remember those infomercials from a long time ago. Point is, don't pour anything in there that doesn't belong. I will very rarely use a bit seafoam to clean the crankcase for a week and then change the oil, but i've only done that twice so far, and with synthetic oil coming out clean after 6k miles, I don't plan on doing it again for a long time. Good oil and a good filter is all you need to keep your toyota motor running strong for a very long time. There is in fact a thread about an '01 taco with like 750k original miles on it. It was a delivery vehicle, and you can bet it did not use any additives. If it did, i don't think it would've made it that far because I sincerely believe that they do more harm than good.

I wonder if there are any reviews or tests out there to validate or invalidate the claims of additive makers. That would be a nice article to read.

good reading on BOBISTHEOILGUY for info on additives.

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Check this out:
http://www.vectorbd.com/peugeot/archive/99_10/0970.html

Chevron with techron and Mobil 1synthetic

good reading on BOBISTHEOILGUY for info on additives.

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That's the place to go to get edumacated on all thing slippery....well almost all things.;)

You know, it's so confusing now a days. Even Mobil 1 has different types of fully synthetic motor oil, and not knowing what the hell the differences are, last time I did my oil change, I just picked up 6 quarts of the Truck & SUV 5w-30. Oh, then the oil filters with all the junk in it. It's almost impossible to find a high quality filter/oil without additives in it. What's the fracking deal?

I'll stick to Amsoil in the Taco and Mobil 1 in the Miata. The only "Additive" I ever use is SeaFoam to clean, but that burns right off.

The snake oils are poop.

I highly recommend FPplus (formerly know as FP3000) from www.lubecontrol.com. It is a fuel system cleaner upper cylinder lubricant.

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seafoam, lucas, chevron techron cleaner.

Ok, so I put Lucas Oil fuel system cleaner in my gas tank every oil change(5k miles). This will even do more damage than good?

Just say no to Oil Additives. If the oil needed what is in those products the oil manufacturers would have added it.

I might use an octane boost if I was wanting to try and boost a little higher to hit the track. But even then I dont know if it would actually raise your octane enough to allow a better tune, when you consider your trying to raise the octane from 93 to ? with a 12oz bottle diluted into a full 18 gallon tank. So your spending 8$ to mix 1 oz. for every 64 oz. of 93 octane? **** you could probably drink the octane boost and not even get sick if you only had to mix 1 oz. for every gallon of water you drank.

Heet, in the yellow bottle at every gas station in the USA iat a 1.50$ is a much better octane boost than an 8$ octane booster, or is occasionally the same thing.

By adding the bottle of octane boost to your tank, you are raising the octane rating from 93 to about 93.7.