Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Exactly HOW does grease and oil improve the way a car starts? Uh huh.., an example of nonsense advertising one product vs the competition when all of it is identical (gas, oil, filters, etc)


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  1. It's called "differentiation".Claim some feature that everyone has as your own before they think of claiming it. Of course, back in the day (what a trite phrase for "when I was younger"!) , before multiple viscosity oils, we switched to a lighter oil for easier starting on cold mornings. Unless, that is, you were driving an even older, pre-war car like mine and ran 40 weight recycled oil bought in 5 gallon cans year round!

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    1. I think 40 weight is what I want in my big block Mopar... keep the friction minimized!

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  2. At the likely time of this ad, multi-weight oil was not universal, so I can certainly see changing to winter oil. It's definitely a drag trying to start a car with 30 or 40 weight oil in winter. But I don't recall running into winter-weight grease except perhaps for differentials or transmissions, in which thick oil was often referred to as grease.

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