| div cl | | | | Road Rider magazine, now Motorcycle Consumer |
| 1. Engine Automotive Oil Additives or âSnake | | | | News. That expose provided the basis for what we in |
| Oilâ? Oil additives have failed to deliver for | | | | the industry knew: oil additives are a means of lifting |
| years. | | | | money from the wallets of uninformed consumers. |
| In August 1992, a brilliantly written article exposed the | | | | Many in the engine automotive industry were already |
| repeated failures in the claims of the oil additive (engine | | | | skeptics. Weâve heard all the promises of |
| automotive and trucking) industry. The article was | | | | friction reduction, longer lasting engines, and fuel |
| entitled Snake Oil - Is That Additive Really A Negative? | | | | savings. Repeatedly, such wanna be solutions failed to |
| It was written by Fred Rau and was originally printed in | | | | live up to the hype. |