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
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