rubevup your engines, today I'm going to talk about how nanotechnology products in
some cars, is nano nonsense, now to understand nanotechnology, realize that
the first real idea of nanotechnology came from the physicist Richard Feynman
one of my heroes, way back in 1959 Feynman described the possibility of
directly manipulating atoms, and that eventually led to nanotechnology which
is manipulation of matter at an atomic or molecular level, and technically
nanotechnology is the manipulation of objects were at least one of their three
dimensions is anywhere from 1 to 100 nanometers large, now a nanometer is a
billionth of a meter, to give you an idea, this piece of paper it's a hundred
thousand nanometers thick, so one nanometer is a real tiny little space
and in the scientific world, a lot of stuff has been done with nanotechnology
it's quite fascinating, but when it comes to the automotive world, a lot of stuff
that's called nanotechnology it's just a scam, and here's one of them that I
tried out, it's called armor shield 9, this little bottle is like $69 and it's
supposed to seal the paint on your car and make it shine and last forever
well this armored shield 90 came in a little box with an application pad, and
some microfiber towels, so I tried it out just like the direction said on some cars
and one this tiny little bottle couldn't even do one little car, contrary to their
directions and really it didn't last that long, and it really didn't look that
great either, was very hard to apply, I guess they're so into small at this
nanotechnology stuff that they sell you small amounts of this stuff and it
really doesn't even work that well, I personally found that this new finish, this can
cost me $9.99, it works just as well if not better, this is been around for ages
you can buy it at any store, so my advice on this nanotechnology waxing coatings,
hey they don't sell it in the stores for a reason, people would be furious if they
spent 69 bucks and it messed up their paint or it didn't do anything, and they
wasted all that money, when they could of bought a ten dollar can of wax that works
just as well, so my advice on this nanotechnology
micro sealers that you can put on pain and stuff, stay away from it
they even had one that you sprayed on your windshield that was supposed to
seal your windshield, heck it didn't last very long, it didn't work very well
either, but nano technology in cars doesn't stop
there, I've had people sell me these little syringes that you squirt into
your engine oil, that are supposed to rebuild your engine as it drives with
nano technology, now sure it would be great if you were a car doctor and you had a
syringe and you injected some of the stuff into a worn engine, and it would
coat everything and make the engine like new, but really you live in dreamland if
you think that's going to actually work, one you're just squirting this stuff in, it's not
going to molecularly bond and rebuild your engine, I mean if it really did have
stuff that bond and on, it could bond on to the wrong parts and clog stuff up
inside your engine, especially a modern one like in this Toyota, it has variable
valve timing with tiny little holes that could be blocked up, now I personally
tried out a bunch of these little gels, they might call them nanotechnology or
ceramic nanotechnology, I had so many of them then I took some and I gave them to
a friend of mine, he was an engineer at a big oil company, he was this mad english
genius, and he analyzed these all and said scotty, you know we actually did look at that
kind of formulation in the past, but we came to the conclusion that we're never
going to put it in any of our oils, because it either had a deleterious effect where
it would clog stuff up, or it would have no effect at all, I mean if stuff like this
really worked, people would sell it in oil and they would make a fortune
and of course, inevitably the people that sent me this stuff, I contact them and
said, look I need some proof from actual scientists who've tested this out and
showed how it works, well guess what, every single one of them I never got to
talk to a real scientist at any of them, but one of them
linked to this one scientists, so I got hold of the guy, and he said, hey I'm
going to get a hold of them, they use my name saying that I said this product works, I
never did any such thing, he wasn't going to stand behind anything like that, he
wasn't a fool, he'd ruin a scientific reputation vouching for some snake oil like
this, and of course the companies themselves, they have all kinds of
testimonials that are anecdotal, oh I put this in my diesel and it had less blow by
and lalala, but really all of that stuff is either totally made-up, or may be for
a short period of time it did something, but over time it's not going to fix
anything and it really could clog stuff up, so this is even worse than the
sealers you can put on paint and stuff, because you might end up destroying your
engine using something like this, because when it comes to people using the name
nanotechnology with cars, it's often just nano nonsense, so if you never want to
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