I'll never run Amsoil, not because it's not good oil, but on a few forums
I've posted on, the Amsoil dealers who paid to sell the stuff on the forum
pushed the stuff so hard and could never answer any technical questions
about it turned me off. Anytime you ask a technical question asking for
third party info, you always got links to websites created by Amsoil and
sometimes even made to look like they weren't affiliated, but poorly
executed.
brian cropp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net [mailto:owner-dakota-
> truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Gary Hedlin
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 9:48 PM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: Re: DML: tap tap tap, ..oil....
>
>
> Yeah, their whole dealer setup reminds me of amway, not saying it
> is... just less middle-aged housewives pushing it. It may be good
> stuff, but when the company isn't really willing to put it in normal
> retail markets, just puts up a few red flags in my mind.
>
> Plus, the 98's engine lasted 185,000 miles before I changed it. Does
> that make the Murray's Discount Auto Parts 10w30 that I used some type
> of super oil? Or could it be regular oil changes, regular
> maintenance, and fairly decent driving habits had something to do with
> it?
>
> I may be drinking the synthetic oil koolaid now, but the Amsoil
> koolaid will always have the Jim Jones appeal that I can't get over.
> :)
>
> Gary
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Barry Oliver <barrysuperhawk@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > knox.james@sympatico.ca wrote:
> >>
> >> Amsoil is the best . but you guys never learn :-)
> >> Zinc enriched Jim ; 91 Dak 318 LA,
> >> drag racing Sept 12
> >>
> >
> > Funny, I never have acquired the taste for the Amsoil flavored Koolaid.
> > Actually, I had bought an oil filter relocation kit for my truck a few
> > years back, and when I really got to looking at it, the quality was so
> > unimpressive, I changed my mind and decided to sell it rather than
> taking a
> > chance on it leaking and dumping my oil.
> >
> > Soo, I put it up on Fleabay, and Oh, good lord, some of the emails I got
> > from the "official amsoil dealers" on the evils of selling it would curl
> a
> > sailors toes. You would think I was selling the recipie for fried
> babies
> > for all of the vitrol and anger in those emails. I even got a couple
> emails
> > from the amsoil.com domain that were, er, less than cordial threatening
> > everything from pulling my ad to hellfire and damnation.
> >
> > Naturally, being the meek submissive type of guy I am, I am sure you all
> can
> > imagine my reaction to being told I cannot sell an item that I owned on
> the
> > internet because of some pyramid scam dealer policy, especially when the
> > emails STARTED OUT rude and high handed and devolved from there. The
> > results were spactacular to say the least, including one guy that swore
> he
> > lived in the same town as me and was going to track me down and put a
> > whoopin on me. I doubt things would have gone as he expected if he had
> made
> > good on that threat, but he didn't live up to his word, darn it.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
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