Has anyone heard of GTOil / NOW12? Is this a scam?

**attyallanlatras** · January 26th, 2012 05:37 PM

I'm about to have a change oil for my innova soon. I heard of GTOil (Green Technology Oil) selling here in Cebu. Its an Engine Oil Additive...But it has several claims which I need to verify...has anyone heard of this engine oil additive? here is its website: The Green Technology Oil
add ko lang yung claim nila: http://gtofaq.blogspot.com/2011/04/n...il-change.html

Hope to hear from anyone here soon...tia

**uls** · January 26th, 2012 06:12 PM

another one of those additives

**dvldoc** · January 26th, 2012 10:04 PM

One of the most uneducated ignorant marketing pitch I have ever heard, They clearly know nothing about oil or filters or how additives in the oil work or how a oil filter works. By the way the Cellulose based filer media will begin to break down after about a year of service use.

I made that know on there blog.

**miko101130** · January 26th, 2012 11:22 PM

OMG... i read the website..This is the mother of all hallucinated additive claims. i can't believe HUMANS have developed a substance that will melt the trapped particles in an oil filter while in service..(melt the particles trapped in the oil filter i repeat!) what a crap of B.S.

its just plain stupid to even attempt to claim that filters will last forever, more-so to claim that oil will last forever...
According to them "ALIEN technology for the masses", i guess the inventor of this product might be the one whose alien.. hahaha..
no offense but its just plain obvious that this additive is a scam,,,

**edtf** · January 27th, 2012 08:01 AM

I just love it!!! Nano particles.

Liquified dirt is still dirt

**attyallanlatras** · January 27th, 2012 08:53 AM

Thanks sa mga nag-reply. I know this is a scam due to its outrageous claims. What is worse herein Cebu is that this additive oil is sold thru membership-marketing style na mukhang pyramiding....here is there link sa business side ng oil additive nito: OTG_KARIS

Hope this kind of scam will be stopped.

By the way hindi lang sila dito sa Visayas, parang 3 lang sa Visayas, most of their "Centers" are in Mindanao and Luzon. see this link:
http://www.otg-karis.com/ABC.html

Meron pa silang facebook site: http://www.facebook.com/OTG.Karis?sk=wall

Every time I have I have some queries or issues on my ride, I always rely on this site dahil authority ito dito sa pinas ang tsikot forums...thanks again

**ghosthunter** · January 27th, 2012 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by edtf

I just love it!!! Nano particles.

Liquified dirt is still dirt

Isn't liquified dirt also called mud? hehehe

**jedi** · January 28th, 2012 08:49 PM

i am monitoring this thread. just make the discussion healthy. ok lang ang debates...basta wala lang away.

**niky** · January 29th, 2012 10:05 PM

Quick question... How do you know the Innova would not still be running if you used something else instead of GTOIL?

I've heard lots of horror stories from mechanics about owners who don't change oil... Right until the engines break down completely.

40k ams is not out of the question, depending on the driving conditions, and there are modern engines that can take that. That there is no fuel doesn't mean much. That there is no noise doesn't mean much. I've bought secondhand cars with pure tar in the oil pan that didn't smoke and didn't rattle.

Yet despite your claims that the engine doesn't make noise, the used oil analysis indicates that there is significant bearing wear. Despite the claims that the engine still runs fine, the analysis indicates the likelihood that the headgasket is going out.

If you want to prove the additive can keep an engine going strong in extreme conditions, the oil test is saying it can't. If you want to prove it is the only thing keeping the engine together, the only way to do that is to buy three or four new Innovas, use GTOIL in one, a good long life synthetic in another, and the standard Toyota oil in the third. The fourth can go as a control with regular 5k oil changes. Only then can you prove that the product is worth it.

Single car tests prove nothing. There are ethanol proponents who've done 100,000 mile tests on cars running alcohol with no wear showing... But I can show you my car running only 40k on E10 before the rubber gaskets in the fuel pump crumbled to dust. There are biodiesel proponents who show cars running 100,000 miles on biodiesel with no major issues... But there are users who have experienced pump wear and even valve wear from esterified biodiesel.

Only comparative tests have any real merit.