AMSoil Experiences with Cars & Trucks

[dodge man]

I have been using Amsoil products just a few years, and I will admit that the way they sell their product is a little strange to me. The local dealer is a great guy and is a local fireman near retirement age. He just operates out of his house. You will see Amsoil prodcuts be sold in a retail setting, they sell it at the local farm store, but its not very common.

What I've done is become a "member" which gives you a discount, and I order all my products on line. If you look at the cost of other high end synthetics, they are pretty competetive. I have NEVER been approached by Amsoil to become a dealer and have no desire to be one.

There is info on the internet where a lot of these oils have been tested. I wish I had saved the links. I think people have posted some of these links on this site. The problem is oil companies are changing the way they make and the additive packages all the time so the data can get old in a hurry.

I think Amsoil makes good oil, but I know others make great products also. I've said it before but if you change your oil every 3000 miles, you are wasting your money using synthetics. On the other hand, if you change your oil at 6000 miles instead of 3000 by using a high end oil, you are using half the oil, are spending half the time under your vehicle, and probably saving a lot of time if not a lot of money. That is why I'm using Amsoil.

 

[sw03]

I have been using Amsoil products just a few years, and I will admit that the way they sell their product is a little strange to me. The local dealer is a great guy and is a local fireman near retirement age. He just operates out of his house. You will see Amsoil prodcuts be sold in a retail setting, they sell it at the local farm store, but its not very common.

What I've done is become a "member" which gives you a discount, and I order all my products on line. If you look at the cost of other high end synthetics, they are pretty competetive. I have NEVER been approached by Amsoil to become a dealer and have no desire to be one.

There is info on the internet where a lot of these oils have been tested. I wish I had saved the links. I think people have posted some of these links on this site. The problem is oil companies are changing the way they make and the additive packages all the time so the data can get old in a hurry.

I think Amsoil makes good oil, but I know others make great products also. I've said it before but if you change your oil every 3000 miles, you are wasting your money using synthetics. On the other hand, if you change your oil at 6000 miles instead of 3000 by using a high end oil, you are using half the oil, are spending half the time under your vehicle, and probably saving a lot of time if not a lot of money. That is why I'm using Amsoil.

Why is there selling direction strange? No differant then Weber, Stihl, Car parts etc? They ARE good oils but for the most part, the general public is clueless. Most will not spend the money or even pull a UOA. Heck, 99% of people do not know what a UOA is! I am not a dealer nor care but their oil is not in the same ballpark as a chinamart fluid. Most people shop on price and price alone. I would love to know what "person" changes oil at 3K miles. I have never done that in 30 years.

Is Amsoil worth it, yup. YMMV

I know Amsoil changed there basestock since it was mandated per the EPA, same with other oil people. They also change it normally every 16 months.

 

[snpower]

Great info from everyone.

In the end I just put Valvoline 75W-90 synthetic in. I mow maybe 50 hours annually and right now I am not in the mood to be extra ****. However; I will continue to ponder and investigate.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Here is my take on oils. SAE=Same As Everyone.

Lots of truth to that. My Ex's Father works for a large mid west oil distributor. He said in his nearly 40 years in the oil business he has never seen a oil failure. He has seen oil that was left in too long, dirty, contaminated, sump low, ect.

I agree with him. I take care of over 75 engines in everything from a push mower to airplanes. Most of them are in boats. We use about every brand of oil and off the shelf oil filters. I do well over 100 oil changes per year and have never seen a issue with properly maintained equipment with reasonable time oil changes.

Chris

 

[arrow]

If you or any one else runs into a problem and thinks it's oil related. TAKE 4 oil samples, give one to the oil manufacturer, one to the equipment oem & keep the last 2 for your self, have one tested if you want. Then you would know if it was an oil related failure.

As my experience was 20 years ago some details have gone missing but what I recall is that an oil sample was taken by the sales person. I believe it was deemed still good. The problem was that the particulate contaminates were not included in the assessment. I changed out the filter (Amsoil) at 5000 miles. Perhaps I got a bum filter At any rate, a heat build up cracked the valve. As I stated, I would have been more pleased with a more logical explanation from the rep than what I received. Perhaps it was not the oils fault but it was the only thing I did differently after 30.000 miles driven with this vehicle previously on dino oil so I needed some kind of viable explanation or else I may have continued to use it after that.

 

[Z71]

AMSOIL specializes in the manufacture of synthetic lubricants. Not only does AMSOIL have the longest history in the manufacture of synthetic lubricants, it manufactures synthetics only, and has the largest selection of synthetic lubricants in the world. Building on its experience and success with regard to synthetic automotive motor oils, AMSOIL quickly branched out to provide synthetic lubricants for every conceivable application, from heavy industrial, farm and marine to snowmobile and chainsaw. If there were moving parts, the company reasoned that high tech lubes would preserve them longer and help them operate better.

Unlike the huge oil companies that have recently ventured into synthetics, AMSOIL doesn't have a line of conventional products to fall back on if people don't buy synthetics. AMSOIL's expertise in the manufacture of synthetics is unparalleled and AMSOIL's commitment to product quality is absolute.

Among the companies AMSOIL gets its base oils and additives are: Btw - They do not buy finished product and rebrand it like John Deere and every other tractor oem.

ExxonMobil Chemical (not the same a Mobil 1)
Afton Chemical
Chevron Oronite
Infineum
Lubrizol
Motiva
to name a just few of the better know chemical companies

 

[arrow]

AMSOIL specializes in the manufacture of synthetic lubricants. Not only does AMSOIL have the longest history in the manufacture of synthetic lubricants, it manufactures synthetics only, and has the largest selection of synthetic lubricants in the world. Building on its experience and success with regard to synthetic automotive motor oils, AMSOIL quickly branched out to provide synthetic lubricants for every conceivable application, from heavy industrial, farm and marine to snowmobile and chainsaw. If there were moving parts, the company reasoned that high tech lubes would preserve them longer and help them operate better.

Unlike the huge oil companies that have recently ventured into synthetics, AMSOIL doesn't have a line of conventional products to fall back on if people don't buy synthetics. AMSOIL's expertise in the manufacture of synthetics is unparalleled and AMSOIL's commitment to product quality is absolute.

Boy if you didn't write the copy for the sales brochure you should of. Now I I feel like buying it agin.

 

[sw03]

AMSOIL specializes in the manufacture of synthetic lubricants. Not only does AMSOIL have the longest history in the manufacture of synthetic lubricants, it manufactures synthetics only, and has the largest selection of synthetic lubricants in the world. Building on its experience and success with regard to synthetic automotive motor oils, AMSOIL quickly branched out to provide synthetic lubricants for every conceivable application, from heavy industrial, farm and marine to snowmobile and chainsaw. If there were moving parts, the company reasoned that high tech lubes would preserve them longer and help them operate better.

Unlike the huge oil companies that have recently ventured into synthetics, AMSOIL doesn't have a line of conventional products to fall back on if people don't buy synthetics. AMSOIL's expertise in the manufacture of synthetics is unparalleled and AMSOIL's commitment to product quality is absolute.

Among the companies AMSOIL gets its base oils and additives are: Btw - They do not buy finished product and rebrand it like John Deere and every other tractor oem.

ExxonMobil Chemical (not the same a Mobil 1)
Afton Chemical
Chevron Oronite
Infineum
Lubrizol
Motiva
to name a just few of the better know chemical companies

I disagree. Amsoil stepped into the lower class oil by making their OEM and extended life oils. There are not that high priced and gets them into that market.

I agree on Amsoil is jsut a blender and gets there adds from Lubrizol, nothing new.

 

[WilliamBos]

How many of those using Amsoil joined in their pyramid scheme and became dealers? That was one of the main things that turned me off to Amsoil.

Not me. It may be a good product, but if I can find an equal on the shelf, I choose that route.

 

[kenmac]

I use Amsoil in my vehicles & do UOA'S. The last UOA was my wife's chevy cobalt. Changed oil @ 14K per UOA.