Montana Owners Club - Keystone Montana 5th Wheel Forum - View Single Post - Diesel additive report....Eye opening......

trukdoc · 02-02-2008, 05:03 AM

Thanks for the info Richfaa. I am highly opposed to additives as this report shows why. Products on the counter rely on MARKETING for sales and use HYPE to push them. Profit is their motive. Not to say there is no good additives. I guess the message here is be informed. Even I was surprised how badly some of the name products did. As in oil buy quality. I use caution shopping for the CHEAPEST fuel for these reasons. It is a shame that Marketers use TRUSTED names and misinformation to sell their products. This appears to be a pretty solid and unbiased test. When a company tests their own product for the purpose of marketing, they are going to set the test parameters that will benefit their product and harm the competitors, these tests may not reflect reality. In this thread someone mentioned a magazine test. I read an article once that made some sense. A magazine is unlikely to give a unfavorable test result to a large advertiser with big money.

02-02-2008, 05:03 AM	#33
trukdoc Montana Master Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Sulphur Springs Posts: 748 M.O.C. #2220	Thanks for the info Richfaa. I am highly opposed to additives as this report shows why. Products on the counter rely on MARKETING for sales and use HYPE to push them. Profit is their motive. Not to say there is no good additives. I guess the message here is be informed. Even I was surprised how badly some of the name products did. As in oil buy quality. I use caution shopping for the CHEAPEST fuel for these reasons. It is a shame that Marketers use TRUSTED names and misinformation to sell their products. This appears to be a pretty solid and unbiased test. When a company tests their own product for the purpose of marketing, they are going to set the test parameters that will benefit their product and harm the competitors, these tests may not reflect reality. In this thread someone mentioned a magazine test. I read an article once that made some sense. A magazine is unlikely to give a unfavorable test result to a large advertiser with big money.