Sorry but any "engine additive" is just going to be a band-aide to the problem at hand (if that). It's not going to magically correct the issue.

Personally, I wouldn't use any of that crap.

 

You mean To tell me that this magical fluid won't fix mechanical wear and damage!?!

 

More than likely it will cause more problems than you already have.

 

I pour a bottle in if the cars been sitting for a while.

 

How are you burning the oil? Valve stem seals, rings, bad turbo? Do you know?

 

lucas oil sabilizer is a waste of money.

Restore can possibly free up stuck rings.
so can gum out engine flush. its hard to find. its a double oil change when you do it.
Chemtool B12 before a oil change can help also.


Need to do a compression test to find out if it is rings. or dig under the car to find out where the oil is going. maybee pull the turbo pipes and see if they are oily also.

 

I just don't like restore. READ the bottle and you will see it contains lots of METAL partials.
So much so looks like metallic paint. I don't think dumping metal in your oil is a good idea.
Lucas and other product may do the job and be fine for a while. But as stated earlier, it just a band aid.

 

I remember a guy my dad worked with had an old shit box oldsmobile that burned oil badly, crazy amounts of white smoke!

I'm almost sure it had FRIED oil rings on the pistons. So he didnt want to invest money or time into it so he would add Lucas Oil additive to it every now and then.


Poof, the smoking reduced.

NOT A MAGICAL FIX, it still needed piston rings badly. It just slowed the consumption of oil down (I cant comment on performance)

 

Bottom line- Some people claim to have success with these products but it CANNOT repair damage or wear.

Your oil level goes down for a reason. It doesnt take a lot of sleuthing to figure out why. If you suspect rings, do a leakdown test. It will reveal if there is any and give you a measurable amount of leakage. If the leakage is small, and you really ARENT leaking it out of the engine somewhere, then its the valve stem seals.

You may or may not notice the blue cloud behind you, but proof of oil burning will be on the spark plugs.

-SP

 

ditto on the above posts, engine restore or lucas is more just to help restore a lil loss of compression on a worn, but otherwise healthy motor, it sounds like from your info you've got bigger problems than what a bottle of additive can fix

On the fluid itself, I can't speak for lucas, but this topic was grilled to death on DSM tuners when I had my talon tsi and used to frequent those boards. The stuff works in a relatively small degree, 3 seperate tests were conducted by members who tested compression after 500-1000-1500 miles to see any effect. Across the board it was roughly a gain of 8-10 psi per cylinder gain in compression for the duration of the oil change.

On the bottle of restore- the "metal" in your oil is a copper/lead silicate, under heat and pressure the molecule is designed to melt and mold into the crevices/scored walls and crannies in the smallest degree of said groove/scratch and get smoothed in from friction of the piston rings/moving mechanical parts, creating a tighter seal. There isn't enough material in the entire can to cause any adverse effects, especially when you consider the additive is diluted in another 4-5 quarts of oil depending on vehicle.

Bottom line, it works on older, tired, generally healthy engines looking to get back a lil lost compression, fuel economy and power in a small way. For the bigger problems, its a band aid at best, and honestly not a very good bandaid

check your turbo, check your charge piping, valvestem seals, look at the oil pan, is it dripping in oil? whats compression look like? just some food for thought