Restore Engine Additive Almost ruined my engine, Internet

i used it in my 91 chevy Camaro with 120000 miles,
this product works well .  it stopped the white smoke coming out of tail pipe when i start the car/ my car runs fine .
no need to use it on every oil change .  i add just 1 can about every 6 months or so.

Fram is one of the worst filters you can use.The seal get hard after being on the motor for a long time and lets unfilterd oil in to the motor.Purolater is a lot better filter.Maybe the filter was to good it would not let the small particals of copper thought the filter? 

Reading this post sounds like the aggressive sales policies of the major discount auto stores (names withheld) . Regardless of which auto parts store sold you the oil change supplies and made frivolous statements to sell you on the High Mileage oil and the Restore product, its unlikely these products caused your problem.

As others have stated, I am also ASE certified in many disciplines, attended college under automotive, heavy diesel and business studies.

This is what I think happened and I agree with the other experts who commented on your posting...

• Your engine has 200,000+ miles on it.
• Did you do an engine flush any time in the past ten years?
• If the engine was never flushed and you added a solvent based additive.
• The deposits in the engine were dispersed and flushed into the oil filter, plugging it up until the by-pass valve began cycling.
• Deposits washed out of the engine that most likely caused the pressure control valve in your oil pump to stick. This is a common problem with Ford 351M engines due to grit in the engine oil. 
• Clean oil and a new filter fixed the problem as you reported.

I have personally used Restore in my own cars with good results. I use a solvent in my engines once a year to purge the deposits away during an oil change. I also run synthetic oil to keep the crud from building up, these have higher detergent/dispersant packages in them.

This is what happened to my car a few months ago. I have a hateful neighbor, the guy did time and decided it was time for payback for his own bad behaviors... When I was moving, a discovery of dirt was made in my engine oil and other fluids. This dirt sandpapered my engine until it was bad with low compression and burns oil.

• Several engine flush treatments removed the dirt confirmed by lab reports.
• Particle counts of the fluids under the hood revealed abrasive material small enough to pass through the filter.  
• I used 2 quarts of engine oil and a 6-Cylinder can of Restore.
• After 500 miles of daily driving, the engine stopped using oil and has a little more pep.

This was a positive result from a  snake oil product doing what the label states it does.

Before you try to blame your bad luck on a reputable company, your own neglect may be part of the problem. Did you ever consult with the people who recommended the products resulting in your car trouble? Did you consult with a Ford garage concerning your oil pressure concern on this vehicle? Did you discuss the problems with your vehicle with Customer Service at all three companies for the oil filter, high mileage motor oil and engine restore treatment?

If this product causes engine failure like you reported, the FTC would pull the product off the market under the Unfair & Deceptive Trade Practices Act. This has happened with other products due to their outrageous claims of preventing engine failure.

Apparently your oil filter was defective and not allowing your oil to circulate properly.  I've used engine restore in my cars and more recently in my compressor with excellent results.  

I have a 2 y/o, 3 hp, 19 gallon Tradespro air-compressor that would no longer compress air beyond 40 psi ... I tried to get piston rings for it from Alltrade but after a lot of runaround was told that they did not have them in stock.  Then I remembered Engine Restore so I made a 50/50 mixture of compressor oil and Engine Restore.  I turned on my compressor and voila!  Instant repair!  It's been working perfectly for two weeks now with no indication of losing any compression.  Hopefully it will last long enough for me to save enough for a new compressor -- one from a company that stocks parts.  While I would not recommend the Tradespro compressor from Alltrade, I certainly would recommend Engine Restore.  

To inform you about the use of engine restore could of not cause this what did happen is you use high millage oil and mix it with the engine restore with a cheap oil filter as most shops and even me will use either fram or wix not purolator as that is a cheap filter so what happen is your cheap filter was a defective cause it couldn't filter the oil plus there is no reason to use high millage oil plus the engine restore,             

why do you think that castrol oil makes there own product it's so you do not need to add or use other oil products like engine restore so i do not see how this product ripp you off what i see is some one who failed to read the warnings on the product two someone who is not a certified automotive technician all you have done is assumed since you used engine restore it was cause of your problem and over the yrs i have seen oil filter failures.

what i haven't seen is engine restore do what you claim it has done and i have used this product since it's been around my customers like and i use it as well with no problems what so ever and with more miles than your ford furthermore i am a A S E level 2 certified automotive tech and the first thing is to make sure that there is oil pressure and that it's correct so plain and simple as a oil filter would be replace before dumping the oil to see if that was the problem so for now what you claim to of happen is very unlikely as you have no facts only assumptions cause you are not a certifed automotive technician plus you stated you think so with that being said that's what you get for thinking.