rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk about engine oil, specifically Amazon
engine oil, now amazon has their own engine oil they're selling now that's
called Amazon basics, so I thought hey I'll try it out, I'm gonna tell you the
truth, this wasn't sponsored by Amazon I just thought, hey let's try it out and
tell people the truth about it, well the first thing I noticed is, it's
manufactured by Warren distribution incorporated, okay
that's a company that started as Warren oil company in 1922, so it's been around
for quite some time, many companies sell oil that they don't
make, Toyota doesn't make an oil, harley-davidson doesn't make their own
oil, autozone doesn't make their own oil, they buy them from an oil company, so
Amazon is using the Warren oil company, now called Warren distribution
incorporated, now I've been personally trying this stuff out in customers cars
and in my own Toyota Matrix, and personally I find that the stuff works perfectly fine
but then again hey a lot of oils are gonna work perfectly fine, how do you
know if they're really working, well I'm not a scientist but I've been a mechanic
for 51 years, I go by personal experience, comparing it to oils and I know are good
and then checking the rating of them all, now oils that are sold in the United States
at least have this little round seal and it says American Petroleum Institute and
it gives a rating, now this isn't some fly-by-night company, the American
Petroleum Institute has been around for a hundred years it was started in 1919
and they rate all kinds of petroleum products, it's not some scammy company
that's getting paid to say stuff, I have personally checked out oils over the
year using them, and I've even found oils that I thought were kind of suspect and
when I looked it up on their website, they said that that particular oil did
not meet the specifications that it said it did on the label of the oil itself
they scientifically test all the oils, and then say, here's the ratings that it
says on the bottle, it either meets those ratings or it doesn't, now when I see
the label on this amazonbasics oil, it says API
service SN and SN plus, so the first thing I did was, I went to the American Petroleum
Institute and I looked up the amazon basics oil, and they gave it a
passing grade, and said that it meets all the specifications that it says on the
bottle, so they say it works as advertised, now realize these are all
backwards compatible, you can use the modern engine oil in older engines, but
you don't want to use the older oil and modern engines, because this SN rating is
for improved fuel economy, protecting turbochargers, protecting emissions
control system, and protecting engines that operate on ethanol fuels all the
way up to e85, realized that most gasoline's you buy today, in the United
States at least, contain at least 10% ethanol, look at the pump you'll see a
sign that says, may contain 10% ethanol, well that usually means it does, and the e85
fuel of course is 85% ethanol, so this SN rating means that you can use
it in those cars and the alcohol won't interact with the oil and break it down
and the s n plus sign, means that it's the highest rated oil that you can buy
in the United States today, it has the best protection, it's the most resource
conserving oil that you can buy, so if it says SN plus then it's top of the
line, if it actually is SN plus, now this amazon basics says SN + and as I
said the American Petroleum Institute said that this oil meets all the
specifications that it says on this bottle, so it's the highest quality oil
now not being a scientist myself, I don't have any way of really testing that but
here's some redline synthetic oil anybody that knows oil, mechanics, race
car guys, know that this redline is one of the top-of-the-line oils out there
now the redline cost twice as much as this amazon basics does, but when I read
the label, it's rated as API s n, now this redline is an excellent oil there's
no arguing that I've known that for decades, but the new amazon basics it's
actually rated higher, maybe they'll have this tested and rated higher
I don't know, but this has the absolute highest rating and it costs less than half
of what this cost, so to me this is pretty good oil, now one thing that used
to stop me from buying oil online was, oil is heavy, generally the shipping
cost are quite expensive, most people have Amazon Prime,
so you don't have to worry about the shipping cost, just forget that
sometimes you don't even have to pay tax, so you're actually saving money there
too, and well everybody was laughing at Bezos with the Amazon originally
saying, who's gonna buy books online, well look what he's created now, the richest
man on earth, so maybe selling oil is a smart move for him, after trying to stuff
out myself and researching it,hey it's a great oil there's no arguing that, he didn't
use some poor quality company for making it, this is top quality stuff, you don't have to search all over town for
it, get out your phone push your order, the next day it's there,
I mean oil changes aren't an emergency it's not like something's broke on your
car and you can't drive it, you plan your oil changes, so why not just buy the oil
ahead of time, and then you're ready with quality oil and you don't have to worry
about it, because I personally have always used quality oil in my engines, hey if you
go to an oil change place and just get the bulk oil, that oil is sitting in a 50
gallon drum and they just pump some of it in, I mean who knows what you're
getting, and sure a lot of those oil change places, they'll offer you
different kinds of oils that are more expensive, but you're gonna pay through
the nose for that, you might as well as buy the oil and do it yourself like I do,
so now you know the truth about amazon basics oil, you can make a wise
decision the next time you change your oil, and not just guess, gee is it good
stuff is it a real company, now you know and since this is a mechanic Monday, I'm
giving away some of this amazon basics oil, to have a chance to
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