Just did a Royal Purple Oil change, smoke?

[941MXVET]

Originally Posted by violametallic-S-

Looks like im gonna get that oil out ASAP. My ABS light came on for no reason and the car start to fell different kind of sluggish/ hesitation. I dunno whats going on but the car is parked and im getting that damn oil out. 100 bucks down the drain, literally....

Also, I just put in a new OEM oil filter in yesterday can I reuse it? or should I just order a new one?

Well, you could run you used RP in your lawnmower. I've been using their 5w40 product as it's acea rated, the car runs fine on it, but I'm considering a switch to Redline.

[JFP in PA]

Originally Posted by 941MXVET

Well, you could run you used RP in your lawnmower. I've been using their 5w40 product as it's acea rated, the car runs fine on it, but I'm considering a switch to Redline.

Royal Purple used to claim ACEA ratings, but then when challenged on that fact, their marketing department changed the claim to “using ACEA approved ingredients”, until ACEA stated that they only rate finished products, not components, and that all products that are required to be tested by a third party (independent) lab; after which RP finally admitted they had lied and had never submitted their products for ACEA testing, claiming that “because their customers are mostly US based, ACEA testing is not important.” Right; they get caught lying, and then say the ratings they so wanted to promote are “Not important.” Interestingly, they still publish some tech sheets with marketing employing purposely vague or deceptive verbiage such as “exceeds ACEA warranty requirements”, which is nonsense as ACEA has nothing to do with warranties, only the performance ratings of oils, and RP never defines what “exceeds” means. So they continue to play the marketing hype game rather than focusing on their products. Based upon their ethics, and UOA testing of their products (which demonstrated the poor performance of their products) , I wouldn’t subject my lawn mower to RP stuff, plus you can get a Hell of lot better oil for a lot less money................

And, by-the-by, Red Line does not have ACEA either, but at least they don’t lie about it……….

[tonycarreon]

not to add fuel ( oil? ) to the fire but...

last month i switched off of the mobil 1 0w-40 to RP 10w-40. the week after the change i took a road trip and put around 3500 miles on the car in a little over a week. in total i've now put over 5k miles since the oil change. the first few days there was some smoke on start up, not a lot - more like a little puff. same as with the mobil 1, btw. since then the only time i get any smoke is when the car has sat for 3 or 4 days without being started. again small puff and then it's gone. smells like fuel not oil.

did i get any extra HP ( as RP says )? nah. seems to drive and run like it did before only a little less ticking noise when it's idling. will i use RP on the next change? no. i'm going to try something else.

the general consenus seems to be NO on mobil 1 and NO on 0w and NO on -30.

some people like castrol syntec, some people like RP, a few people stick with mobil because "that's what porsche puts in..."

[Kurt W]

Go with Total Quartz Energy 9000 in 5W-40 and you and your energy will be happy.

[violametallic-S-]

Switched back to mobil 1 0-40. No more royal purple for me, not worth the hype.

[blue2000s]

Originally Posted by violametallic-S-

Switched back to mobil 1 0-40. No more royal purple for me, not worth the hype.

Curious - Do you still have smoking and running issues?

[violametallic-S-]

Originally Posted by blue2000s

Curious - Do you still have smoking and running issues?

not anymore after the switch

[941MXVET]

Originally Posted by JFP in PA

[COLOR=Red]Royal Purple used to claim ACEA ratings, but then when challenged on that fact, their marketing department changed the claim to “using ACEA approved ingredients”, until ACEA stated that they only rate finished products, not components, and that all products that are required to be tested by a third party (independent) lab; after which RP finally admitted they had lied and had never submitted their products for ACEA testing, claiming that “because their customers are mostly US based, ACEA testing is not important.” Right; they get caught lying, and then say the ratings they so wanted to promote are “Not important.”

Wow, I didn't realise all this, I'll do some searching on my own and re-evaluate my decision.

[rob76turbo]

I have been using Castrol Syntec 5W-40. I like the price too, a bit less expensive than M1.

[Frodo]

Originally Posted by rob76turbo

I have been using Castrol Syntec 5W-40. I like the price too, a bit less expensive than M1.

Switched to Castrol Syntec 10W-40 last oil change.

So far so good...