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Steev0 *
Joined: 10 Nov 2009 Posts: 10 Location: Dumfries
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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 13:45 Post subject: |
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I have a '03 Skoda Octavia VRS which I have owned from new. I have serviced it myself from around 13,000 miles and I have used ZX1 in the oil change then and about every 30,000 since. It now has 130,000, runs as sweet as it has ever done, burns no oil and still goes like *beep* off the proverbial shovel!
It also has its original exhaust, still intact after 7 years! |
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Sir Henry **
Joined: 19 Dec 2011 Posts: 100 Location: Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
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Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 13:23 Post subject: |
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All these additives putatively work by bonding a compound to the friction surfaces through heat and/or pressure.
With Slick 50 this is alleged to be micron-fine particles of PTFE. Since this substance is so slippery that any 2 surfaces coated in it are supposed to have the same coefficient of friction of "wet ice on wet ice", which is about as slippery as any two surfaces can get.
Molyslip, which has been on the scene for several years before Slick 50, supposedly uses molecular molybdenum disulphide which is an atom of metallic molybndenum bracketed by a pair of sulphur atoms (S-Mo-S). The makers claim that the combination of heat and pressure causes one of the outer sulphur atoms to bond to the friction surfaces where shearing forces and ionic imbalance in the molecule allows the other unbonded sulphur atom to become dislodged and therefore expose the molybdenum atom. This also gives a more slippery surface and (again allegedly) filling some of the deeper scratches in the friction surfaces.
Despite the flowery language this ZX1 substance sems to do much the same, but without saying what materials are being used. "The re-engineered hydrocarbon molecules in Extralube ZX1 actually synergise (eh?) with ferrous and non ferrous metals on contact, forming a complex long-chain molecular bond (that's what I said) which is extremely slippery and tenacious".
I've used both of the first two with nothing but positive results, but basically yer pays yer money and yer teks yer choice. |
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stadenl Lifetime member
Joined: 09 Jul 2012 Posts: 11 Location: KENT
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 17:42 Post subject: |
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is the ZX1 still available in the club shop, can't seem to be able to navigate to it ? |
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jackabea Lifetime member
Joined: 06 Jun 2015 Posts: 41 Location: Telford
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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 20:04 Post subject: where? |
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just looked at the shop can't see it?
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catherine Newbie
Joined: 26 Feb 2019 Posts: 6 Location: India
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Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:02 Post subject: |
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I likewise added some to the transmission and have seen that the transmission liquid is currently darker where before it was indistinguishable shading from the trans liquid. The vehicle drives great still, other than a transmission issue it has had since I initially possessed it. When I originally included the zx1 the gearbox demonstrated a stamped improvement however at this point it is by all accounts somewhat more terrible than when I previously got the vehicle. Will request that my neighborhood carport does a gearbox flush as I am speculating that the zx1 may have unstuck some stuff from the gearbox electrical engineer. |
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