Pro-long is for real? Or not?

[book-ends]

Hello,

I was up late watching the election coverage and when I flipped through the stations I saw an info-mercial about Pro-long. I know it's been around for a while, but does it really work?

I think that my KA is getting tired at around 200K so I was wondering if this would "refresh" some of the internals. According to the infomercial, you can dump sand and concrete on an exposed valvetrain and nothing will happen!! Ha ha ha.......

Also, I noticed that they used an "official" KA24E test, which I can only assume is something cool and Nissan oriented!

[Silvia007]

The ka24e is used because it can handle that much sand in it's crankcase without the prolong. That addictive is bullsh!t. I would just use a good full to 100% synthetic motor oil and that'll do much more good then addictives. Trust me on this, I used to be big on all that addictive crap. Motor-up, Prolong, Z-max, hell, even duralube. All crap when compared to a synthetic motor oil.

[w1ngzer0]

but puting synthetic on a 200k motor that has used dino oil. Wouldn't that cause problems?

[Doomed2Walk]

Sorry, don't know what prolong is, but Silvia007, I think you mean additive, addictive is something like nicotine or heroin :X

[PantherRacer]

yeah, it's additive....and I can't say if those things work or not...guess I'm just post-whoring

[MikeMurphy]

but puting synthetic on a 200k motor that has used dino oil. Wouldn't that cause problems?

No. I think only maybe 2 people on this whole board have ever complained about things that happened after they switched to synthetic on a high-milage engine. Even then, it may still have nothing to do with the oil.

I myself am running a fairly high-milage KA and switched to a strict diet of Mobil1 with no ill effects except peace of mind. Seriously, if your engine cannot handle synthetic, its on the brink of falling apart anyways. Its not some crazy super thin liquid or anything.

[Silvia007]

yeah guys, I know it's additive, it was a long, long day and I was dead tired. As for dyno oil to synthetic, unless you never change the oil, switching over to synthetic will give you a lot of trouble. If you change your oil on a regular basis, say 3,000 miles, switching over would be fine. 200k miles on dyno oil... pretty damn impressive.

[Doomed2Walk]

No problem, just busting your balls. I assume then Prolong is synthetic oil? Anyone explain the chemical differences of synthetic vs. mineral and why one is used over the other?

[AZhitman]

Someone go find Fred, he can tell you all about nthat stuff.

I too have seen the ads, and they are tempting, but they're designed that way.

Slick 50 and the Tornado were proven to be BS, if that tells you anything about infomercials.

[PalmerWMD]

Prolong is of no help.It includes and additive to improve slipperyness, hence the impressive infomercial with the engine running like that.Nearly all syns can do the same.and all those impressive slipepryness test on those machines can be matched by your average shampoo.

BUT I would NEVER put Prolong in my engine, its not quite as bad as many snake -oils but I wonjt do you all that much good either.

Spend the money on frequent oil changes with quality oils,

(Your KA sounds like a candidate for Durablend 10w-40)

Other additives like ZMAX and ALL Teflon based addtives are outright scams!.

(I dont use the term lightly)

The only additves that are of any use are the non snake oil variety like AutoRx or BG44 series, Those are honest companies