[secretagent]

OK, just as long as it doesn't self-replicate.

[Age of Reason]

With all the idiotic, useless accessories and "luxuries" they've been putting in cars the last few decades--why the heck doesn't someone invent a car with oil that easy and not messy for the average car owner to change himself?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Cool. Maybe those kids at Jiffy Lube can quit trying to sell me "PVC filters" and find something useful to do with their time.

[commonguymd]

I doubt it will end the need for an oil change. Oil does break down, but it also accumulates debris - thus a filter.

But, then again, it must be said that every new automotive invention creates a buzz about impact on the future service requirements of vehicles. A great portion of a new car dealer's bottom line comes from the service and repair profit center. They won't be jumping to minimize the opportunity to get the car on the lift - so to speak.

Don't hold onto your hat.

Hence, comes the 21st century tune-up, the flash and flush. Flash - being updating of the onboard brain (have the dealer check your new car's trouble request fixes) and the flush being the flushing of vital fluids - transmission, power steering, brake, and engine fluids.

[Nateman]

Oil also takes away engine by products and grime, in short it cleans it. You will still have to change the oil.

[mikrofon]

Now they can start a whole new chain of "NanoLube"
shops, with Robin Williams as their pitch man...

[Captain Peter Blood]

Is this product also applicable to women?

[snarks_when_bored]

Now there's an idea. Let's put nano-sized inorganic spheres into every car engine in the world, so that the exhaust pipes of every car engine in the world spew these micro-spheres out into the air we breathe.

Yeah, there's an idea.

[Pete'sWife]

There's something on the market here in the NY Metro are called "Motor Silk." Supposedly, it's a one-time oil additive that increases gas mileage.

Has anyone else heard of this?

I didn't fall for Slick-50, or any of the chlorinated or teflon oil additives. I change my oil and filter every 3,000 miles, and have done so for as long as I've owned automobiles.

Every one of them has lasted 100,000+ miles, and many of them have gone over 200,000.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

[garyhope]

Why not just use my ex wife's meat loaf?

How greasy was it?

It was so greasy,......that,.....

[CzarNicky]

They should invent nano gasoline so that I wouldn't have to fill up.

[Melas]

You'd still have to change the oil. The loss of viscosity isn't the only reason you change your oil. You also change it because byproducts of combustion accumulate in the oil and need to be removed periodically. This new super-syn would do nothing to change that.

[RAY]

Are these folks something like the old "snake oil" salesmen? Better watch these slick suckers!

[Skooz]

I love the word "lubricant."

[Squantos]

Quaker State just hired a team of assassins to go blow this lab up and kill the scientist and burn the building to the ground after shredding all the formulas and notes no doubt !!

[PAR35]

The engine won't even have a dipstick to check the oil.

It may not need a dipstick, but if it is a GM car, it will need a fill tube to add a quart every month or so.

[ddtorque]

here's an article from tech magazine Red Herring on this subject: Nanotech startup’s slippery slope:

"ApNano’s promising lubricant could give it a key foothold in the burgeoning market. But it’s got major roadblocks – namely, ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, and Shell."

[Fiddlstix]

My next car:

(I've had it with all this new fangled crap)

[Cicero]

Excellent SF with nannites:

[WideGlide]

Jiffy Lube Headquarters

DOOMED!