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The same company whose engineers created a ticky tocky engine claims to have one of the best products on the market.Requests that you not go outside their maintenance recommendations to achieve longer and more troublefree miles.Yet build planned obsolescence into the product they build.Then warns everyone that using a product to counteract that obsolescence that they will thereby shorten and negatively impact that products life.Proof that they do not want that planned obsolescence tinkered with.Engineers are gods and infallible in their designs and recommendations...we all know that.But in the real world the consumers are many times more right than wrong.But that can be offensive to some that know "The Knowledge"is only with them....speaking to the general population of engineering gods of course.lol
I could not have articulated it any better, myself.
That said, people will interpret intent from our posts as they will. I allude to the allopathic nature of the masses at large, instead of true understanding of what reality is in terms of curing problems.
We peons were not going to change GM's arrogance of the mid 20th century arrogance that they could continue to build garbage and the masses will follow like lemurs to the dealer. (E.G. Vega and overall substandard quality in their entire line) Read the book "Collision Course" if you really want good insight into these truths. "Unsafe At Any Speed" is also enlightening to unsavory facts of life regarding mass production numbers opposed to small fractional problems such as this one. Eventually, the Japanese put the big 3 on their collective *****, and rightfully so, given the spirit of free enterprise.
The true story of the Ford Pinto debacle is shocking at it's core. I owned 3 Pintos through the years following the recall to cure their proclivity to exploding into a fire ball at very low rear collisions. They really were decent vehicles, all things considered, but the nasty stigma caused by media's yellow journalism in the matter doomed the model.
All this inter bickering over an allopathic "pill" (oils, filters, additives) will continue in these and other forums of the few. The inconvenient truth is that the big corporations weigh risk every day. They have entire departments devoted to it. This means that we the few with ticking engines are on our own. I've been made aware that the use of certain of these products has, in fact, cured a very minute number of the ticking Hemis. And, you are correct that today's consumers are not to be trifled with inasmuch as intelligence is concerned.
I deal with engineers who think they know more than me when I explain car problems to them. They aren't ALL so Hubris as to be like you say, but it is frequently so. My thought is that the Hierarchy of Competency has to prevail. After all, If I had a tumor in my brain I'd rather the long of tooth Master Physician perform my surgery than go to some young buck who refers to anecdotal means to apply alternative treatment.
Dad taught me that the proof is in the pudding. HE was an engineer, but one more grounded in reality than most I've ever known.
The lifter/tick/cam wipeout problem is shared by GM 5.3 V-8's of modern ilk, too.
Regardless of who the manufacturer is, they will adhere to good old greed first. The solutions ARE up to we in the ranks. Have you watched the advertisements on TV lately, and gleaned the subliminal messages therefrom? I rest my case.