Advanced Durability in the Big Apple
Quaker State® Advanced DurabilityTM conquers its toughest test yet: 804,000 kilometers in New York City taxis.
We put our oil to the test in the lab, but to see if it can stand up to the rigors of the road we tested it in a fleet of New York City cabs. Few vehicles rack up more kilometers than taxis, making them one of the toughest tests of Quaker State® Advanced DurabilityTM.
It only took six years for the first taxi we tested to reach 804,000 kilometers. After half-a-million miles in stop-and-go New York traffic, we disassembled the engine to take a look at its valve-train, pistons and cylinders.
The result? Quaker State® Advanced DurabilityTM motor oil offered double the wear protection of industry standards, maintained viscosity for optimal protection and protected against corrosion. Quaker State® Advanced DurabilityTM provides the protection to withstand the 24/7 wear and tear of the City That Never Sleeps.
Half A Million Miles With Quaker State Motor Oil
Title: Half A Million Miles with Quaker State Motor Oil
Duration: 2:10
Video name: Half A Million Miles with Quaker State Motor Oil
[Sound effect]
Thunderous boom.
[Text displays]
In white letters on a soft black background, beneath the “Quaker State” Logo: “Quaker State Presents…Feats of Strength – 500,000 Miles Worth.”
[Background music]
Rock music with electric guitar, bass and drums plays.
[Video footage]
In an auto garage, mechanics work on yellow taxi cabs.
[Audio]
JEFF HSU: These New York City taxis have logged a half a million miles. Each of these engines have achieved that amount in stop-and-go New York City traffic.
[Video footage]
Throughout New York City, yellow taxis—including cars and vans—navigate the busy city streets. Elsewhere, a black-haired man wearing a green, button-up shirt with a “Quaker State” logo—a golden “Q” partially framing the words “Quaker State” in white—stands behind a workbench. Behind him, tool cabinets line a brick wall. To the man’s left and right, a tool box, small auto parts and others items rest on the bench.
[Text displays]
Jeff Hsu – Engine Oil Development Lead.
[Audio]
JEFF HSU: For a little perspective, it would take an average American 42 years to reach that amount of miles.
[Video footage]
A man in a gray suit steps onto a city street and approaches the rear right passenger door of a taxi. Inside a taxi, a meter mounted on the dashboard calculates the fare amount as the driver moves through traffic.
[Audio]
JEFF HSU: But, on average, New York City taxis achieve this amount of miles in six years in very harsh engine conditions.
[Video footage]
Several taxis idle in a lane of traffic. In the auto shop, a gray-haired, bespectacled man stands near a taxi cab with a raised hood.
[Text displays]
Bob Montgomery – New York City Taxi Fleet Operations.
[Audio]
BOB MONTGOMERY: If you’re not out there doing fares, picking people up, somebody else is. And if you’ve got a lot of down time, it has to come back to the shop, and that means the car’s not out there on the street collecting money for the owner. New York City taxi cab services are very severe on a motor oil, uh, because of the constant accelerations and decelerations. There is excessive idle time throughout the day, which makes the engine oil run hotter.
[Video footage]
Throughout the city, taxis idle in heavy traffic or drive along busy streets.
[Audio]
BOB MONTGOMERY: We’re quite confident that, if our oil looks good in this application, it’ll definitely look good in a consumer’s car.
[Video footage]
In the auto shop, two men remove the engine from a taxi.
[Audio]
BOB MONTGOMERY: What we’re going to do now is we’re going to assess how well the engine oil protected the engine. This particular engine has approximately 521,000 miles on it.
[Video footage]
A bald, bespectacled man wearing a green Quaker State shirt holds an engine piston in his gloved hands.
[Text displays]
Paul Greenland – Fleet Operation and Testing Engineer.
[Audio]
PAUL GREENLAND: Okay, here’s piston number eight we took out of the engine—the last piston to come out. And if you look at it, the rings are perfectly clear and moving back and forth. The oil ring is clear. There’s no sludge or it’s not stuck. There’s no scratches or scoring. They’re completely clean. There’s hardly any varnish on there.
[Video footage]
Paul peers through a magnifying lens at the piston as he spins it on a round platform.
[Audio]
PAUL GREENLAND: I’m looking at the top land of the piston, looking at the deposits for carving and varnish and it looks excellent. There’s no heavy carving on the piston.
[Video footage]
Jeff Hsu stands behind the workbench.
[Audio]
JEFF HSU: Now that’s an engine that’s taken a lot of beating, and this is why we test Quaker State Advanced Durability in New York City taxis and not just in a laboratory.
[Video footage]
Jeff places a green, quart-sized bottle of Quaker State Advanced Durability Motor Oil on the workbench.
[Graphic]
Words appear on a gray background beside a photo of a bottle of Quaker State Oil:
[Text displays]
Advanced Durability: Double the wear protection (compared to industry standard Sequence IVA.); Maintains Viscosity; Provides Corrosion Protection.
[Audio]
JEFF HSU: Quaker State Advanced Durability is a conventional oil that offers double the wear protection of industry standards, maintains viscosity from start to finish to give optimal protection, and it also provides corrosion protection against harmful acids generated by engine contaminates.
[Video footage]
Jeff stands behind the workbench.
[Audio]
JEFF HSU: We figure if our oil can stand up to the wear and tear of a New York City taxi, it can more than handle your daily commute, so you can keep working for the next half a million miles.
[Graphic]
The Quaker State logo appears on a soft black background.
[Text displays]
QuakerState.com