8 Synthetic Oil Brands With FAKE Full Synthetic Claims (You're Being SCAMMED!) скачать в хорошем качестве

8 Synthetic Oil Brands With FAKE Full Synthetic Claims (You're Being SCAMMED!)

The "full synthetic" label on your motor oil bottle is completely unregulated — any company can legally print it on refined crude oil, and nobody is stopping them. The core deception is simple: most brands labeled full synthetic use Group Three hydrocracked base oil, while true synthetic is Group Four PAO — engineered molecule by molecule, with measurably better performance at high heat and extended drain intervals. Castrol cracked the loophole open in 1999 after winning a lawsuit, and the entire industry followed suit — charging PAO prices for mineral-derived oil ever since. Shell alone is running the same GTL Group Three base oil through three separate brand identities — Pennzoil Platinum, Quaker State Ultimate Durability, and Shell Helix Ultra — at three different price points, creating the illusion of competition that doesn't exist. The fix is straightforward: pull the product data sheet for your oil and look for the words PAO, Polyalphaolefin, or Group Four — if they aren't there, you're running Group Three regardless of what the front of the bottle says.