As per title, please pay really good attention when dealing with engine oil. Recently, our boys in blue team just cracked down a fake oil syndicate which was based in Rawang. They (those fakers) reproduce those famous oil brands using the same jugs and label. There's even some incidents while the operation was held; mainly from the representative from the oil company itself.According to the pics, there are plenty well known brands involved. All of Shell's Helix oil were re-produced; from regular dino to synthetic; probably a clear sign that these brand is famous in the market. There are also Pennzoil and Castrol brand caught in the pics. What worries me is, there's a bunch of label-less jugs in gray, which the jug design is IDENTICAL to Bardahl motor oil. Crap... I'm currently using this brand. Most of consumer nowadays try to avoid the common big and famous names of oil in Malaysia is because of the counterfeit issues but then, it seems that the much lowly rated (in Malaysia of course) brand such as Bardahl also might not as safe as we thought. Trying to comfort myself, at least the jugs spotted were in gray while the synthetic one is gold in colour; the one in my crankcase. But maybe there was a golden jugs but the reporter haven't snapped the pic... (I'm restless)
Big credits to http://ondscene.blogspot.com for bringing this matter to the public. You may get the full report by clicking here.
Bardahl Oil Jug
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