It’s not a lubricant, it’s a penetrating fluid. Yeah ok it can act as a lubricant for a short while but you’d use it on parts that should be lubricated that have seized together to get them moving again so you can apply lubricant.
Yeah but it’s not a proper lubricant and you shouldn’t use it as one. It’s a swiss-army knife: great in a pinch for a number of things but you wouldn’t want it to replace your whole tool box.
That advertisement would never be approved today.
I can’t see why not, that is exactly the type of humor their target demo uses
Because people can’t take a joke anymore.
Awkward teens and dirty old men?
Nope not that, they claim it’s a lubricant.
It’s not a lubricant, it’s a penetrating fluid. Yeah ok it can act as a lubricant for a short while but you’d use it on parts that should be lubricated that have seized together to get them moving again so you can apply lubricant.
So they’d get done for false advertising.
1/4 to 1/3 of WD-40 is a petroleum base oil, and they make claims about its lubricating properties on their website and marketing material today.
Yeah but it’s not a proper lubricant and you shouldn’t use it as one. It’s a swiss-army knife: great in a pinch for a number of things but you wouldn’t want it to replace your whole tool box.
It was never a real ad. It’s a pre-internet fax and photocopy meme redone for the web around 2014-ish.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wd40-ad/