Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:09:19 -0700
Reply-To: Zoltan Kuthy <zol@foxinternet.net>
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From: Zoltan Kuthy <zol@foxinternet.net>
Subject: Re: Toilet paper filter is better
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Much better. Much much better. Adding this feature to your car is just
one of those things we do here when we upgrade, improve, pretty up,
sophisticate, perfect our precious friends. It is a casing where the
cartridge goes into every two years or so.
The purpose is simple;the filter is about ten times more efficient than
ordinary ones with all the big hype. The hype works, you buy. Oil is
cheep here, cars are cheep, we like to change cars often, we don't want a
car that works forever, subconsciously we have no need to improve on
better filtering therefore we ignore these kind of calls. "Only in
America" say a man who can relate to the whole World. Keeping the oil
purified and new indefinitely is an important issue for the trucking
industry. Or even the taxies.
In times of war it would be probably compulsory to install to save oil for
the country.
Right now the more oil you buy the better. The more engine you buy or
recondition the better. The more car you buy the better. Better for the
big boys club who can own your paycheck. If this thing gets a little
popular they will run anti-advertising on it.
If you take the trouble and look into the performance of these cartridge
filters you would not believe the numbers. You would think that they are
made up advertising, embellished,
false, ridiculous, the usual seen on TV. You buy one and never again.
Not this. If you want your oil to be clean always and don't mind to pay a
few bucks more the first time when you pay for the casing, you will never
regret it. And you can keep the same oil in when you change the filter.
You don't have to let the oil out again, take to the disposal place, mess
with it. Changing the cartridge is but a minute of clean job. Boring I
know.
Having gotten used to changing oil every few weeks - that is what it feels
like - is so imbedded in the mind of the whole populace that they can not
change for something that big brother is not telling them to do. TV is
still God. Just look at the quality of the stuff you buy in the auto
supply stores compared to what the professionals buy. Especially tools.
There is no comparison. Even if you can afford it you can not buy the
best. You really really have to get out of your way and into somebody
else's to lay your hands on great classy stuff. This is for the pros
too. If the little guy buys it great. But the real big saving is for the
trucking industry and the likes where millions are spent on the actual oil
and its disposal while the price of the cartridge is less than the old
filter is. They can work it out in a few minutes what is that huge saving
in down time, man hours, disposal fees, loss of business, savings on
filters, multiplying engine life, saving of buying new engines or
reconditioning them, keeping extra number of mechanics etc. The little
guy likes to bond with his toy and wants to be needed by it, therefore he
can't wait to be on hand and do whatever this faithful partner needs. The
more often the better. This need is stronger then the fact that the
engine loves to bath in clean oil that has no friction of large particles
in it.
Old habits are hard to break. Remember the thread we had once where
somebody complained that VW did not want to guarantee the car if he
changes oil more often then 10 000 miles. Guys like to make love to their
cars in one way or another. Less of those disappointments I guess.
I think I have given a little more than the subject deserved.
Zoltan
Few Westies from the '80s.
Terry Kay wrote:
> These things have been around for years,and why would anybody want to
> extend their oil change intervals, when it by itself is the one most
> important thing to guarantee engine longevity?
> I feel that it is just another "snake oil" gizmo, that will do nothing
> more than shorten your engine life.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Terry
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