ROYAL PURPLE vs MOBILE 1
02-02-2007, 11:42 AM
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ROYAL PURPLE vs MOBILE 1
i have never used royal purple before, but i hear good things...anyone use this before, i always use mobil 1 full synthetic 5w30 (04 TL 6mt) 8000 miles
02-02-2007, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Road Rage
You do not want to know.
I think they are all hype, the purple angle is too cute for my tastes, and the UOA's I have seen have been uniformly unimpressive. That this oil gets big play in the tuner magazines says a lot about how easy it is to manipulate the media. RP has not been around very long, and its ad copy reads like a marketing man gone berserk, rather than a sober engineering oriented company. I do not know any of my friends who are tribs or SAE members who use it.
On their site last year, I found a huge "oversight" - they were hawking one of their non-synoils as a synoil - it was eventually "corrected", but no banner headline to clarify for those who had already bought into it - they probably still do not know.
I think any oil company that has to get a trade or service mark for its purple bottle has issues.
I think they are all hype, the purple angle is too cute for my tastes, and the UOA's I have seen have been uniformly unimpressive. That this oil gets big play in the tuner magazines says a lot about how easy it is to manipulate the media. RP has not been around very long, and its ad copy reads like a marketing man gone berserk, rather than a sober engineering oriented company. I do not know any of my friends who are tribs or SAE members who use it.
On their site last year, I found a huge "oversight" - they were hawking one of their non-synoils as a synoil - it was eventually "corrected", but no banner headline to clarify for those who had already bought into it - they probably still do not know.
I think any oil company that has to get a trade or service mark for its purple bottle has issues.
Here is the link to the thread discussion about mobil1 (has a few posts about RP as well)
https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...5&page=2&pp=25
Hope this helps.
02-02-2007, 03:40 PM
#7
Racer
Yeah.. I was shopping for oil last night and saw the RP stuff. Decided to go with mobil1 instead like the vast majority here. I may switch to amsoil stuff just to try it out next time around.
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02-02-2007, 06:37 PM
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All About Trance
Amsoil is good, but I just checked my invoice from 8.22.05 and they've increase their price for a case. I'm going to give Mobil1 a try.
02-02-2007, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by mn2trance
Amsoil is good, but I just checked my invoice from 8.22.05 and they've increase their price for a case. I'm going to give Mobil1 a try.
02-02-2007, 07:15 PM
#11
ive been running royal purple for over 6 months and it's been doing fine, but i just have to change it frequently, no more than 3,000 miles can go by or it starts to lose its effectiveness. i plan on switching to MOTUL. you guys should check it out.
02-02-2007, 07:28 PM
#12
All About Trance
Originally Posted by leedogg
I'm pretty sure that all oil products have got more expensive since 05
02-02-2007, 07:46 PM
#13
Royal purple in my $13k race motor 20w50 , Mobil one 0w20 in my TL. I work for one of the major oil companies (M@B!L) and can give you plenty of info but in the end it is still consumers choice. CleanCL, you should be able to go longer then 3k with ANY syn oil, if not then you must be tuned excessively rich and the fuel degrades the oil not the oil itself. I can almost go a whole season on RP in my race car (about 100-150 passes) if im just running N/A but with N2O ill only go about 20-25 cause i run it on the safe side of rich
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