Good point.
Nothing to stop cars that are run-in from using it?
In fact in Australia some used car warranties came with a requirement to treat the engine with a similar treatment as a condition of the warranty?
The debate is often best summarised by a bell chart:
http://ericsink.com/bell2.gif
:-)
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Originally Posted by HAHA
It's not a huge mystery why manufacturers do not deliver their products with PTFE treatments or similar. This has to do with break-in. Almost all mechanical contraptions need to break in to reach peak efficiency. Since additives effectively halts or delays wear, they will prevent break-in. Break-in also takes a while (I'd guess 20 hours of loaded run time is a bare minimum) so it's just not economically feasible to do treatments from factory.
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