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    Car filled a quart over

    This may not explain your discrepancy, but since it's come up in the comments. Check your owners manual to confirm proper oil level check procedures. Some manufacturers recommend a warm engine rather than cold for an oil level check, and the car's dipstick is designed for that (with the...
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    How easy/hard is it to return used motor oil?

    Related question. Does anyone know of any place that takes just empty oil bottles that don't have any oil in them (such as from topping off)? I'm going to have a severe oil burner soon so will be accumulating a lot of empty bottles. I know a lot of people re-use the bottles for used oil, but I...
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    How to find out the ZDDP

    In addition to the Virginia Oil Analysis threads mentioned above (see https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/forums/virgin-oil-analysis-pcmo-hdeo.11/) many oil manufacturers will publish product data sheets (PDS) or similar technical data sheets listing properties of their oils, including Zinc and...
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    Has Valvoline ever been an "oem" oil?

    As to the second point from OP, I believe the Wawa's (big regional convenience store ranked #10 in CSP's size rankings by locations) in my area here carry Valvoline, as does Pilot truck stops
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    PQIA not testing PCMO lately?

    They're just not updating their aggregate list, go through their regular updates on their main homepage, you'll see they are still testing and posting VOAs some recent...
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    GULF oil 15,0000 miles ...

    Total S.A. only owns the Gulf brand in Spain & Portugal (and perhaps a few other countries). In the U.S., Gulf is ultimately owned by ArcLight Capital Partners (purchased from Cumberland Farms a few years ago) For motor oil, ArcLight licenses the Gulf brand to Nu-Tier Brands
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    Current Walmart oil pricing

    Castrol GTX Classic 20W-50 at walmart went up 80 cents per qt (4.68 to 5.48) in the past month (if not more recent)
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    Oil shortage/issues?

    I hadn't seen any press about this impacting retail (or bulk retail for shops) yet, but there has been some press about supply issues, including additives https://www.lubesngreases.com/lubereport-americas/u-s-base-oil-price-report-141/ Downstream, blenders were feeling the base oils and...
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    New Castrol oil for the classics! "Castrol GTX Classic" 20W-50

    FYI for anyone who hasn't checked recently, walmart.com is now allowing you to order Castrol GTX Classic 20W-50 for home delivery. When they first began stocking the product, ship to home wasn't available for whatever reason, nor was even ship to store available (you could order online for...
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    Shell Helix Top Up Oil...

    Sister brand Pennzoil has made plans for something similar in the US, doesn't look like it has hit the shelves yet if they still intend to launch it from this prior thread in late 2020 https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/new-pennzoil-full-synthetic-black-label.335349/page-4#post-5613719...
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    5W-30W ???

    The BITOG forums are among the top search engine results for questions like "can i use 5w 30?" In fact, for me when I google this (without quotes), a BITOG forum thread is the top result (with quotes i get a VW vortex forum thread; also I believe the algorithms spit out results on a user-unique...
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    New Castrol oil for the classics! "Castrol GTX Classic" 20W-50

    Thanks very much for bringing this to my attention, I hadn't heard of this and this is my market segment. Really looks good for my preferences (don't want ZDDP higher than 1400 or so) From the Castrol GTX Classic 20W-50 PDS (note, 99.99% sure this is the PDS for the USA product. The PDS was...
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    SUNOCO is back on list for Top Tier gasoline brands

    To be clear, Citgo and Valero are top tier for gasoline. not sure if you were saying they're not, or they're just not as common around you as Shell/BP
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    SL rated Super S brand motor oil at Roses Stores

    From the 06 Elantra owners manual, p. 202: The engine oil quality should meet the following classification. API SJ, SL or ABOVE, ILSAC GF-3 or ABOVE https://owners.hyundaiusa.com/content/dam/hyundai/us/myhyundai/glovebox-manual/2006/elantra/2006_Hyundai_Elantra_OM.pdf and to further what...
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    Phillips 66 Motor Oil in same bottles

    AC Delco Honda produced by Phillips 66, not trying to say they are the exact same oil in each bottle/brand
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    What major oil co's bottle for other names?

    In the US: Phillips 66 - Ford Motorcraft Phillips 66 - AC Delco Phillips 66 - Honda Exxon Mobil: VW-Audi Exxon Mobil: Toyota Exxon Mobil: Nissan Exxon Mobil: formerly AC Delco Exxon Mobil: formerly Honda
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    will HDEO harm my cats

    OP has a stash >For next summer I was thinking of using Traveller 15w40 all fleet SM rated oil. I want to use that, as I have a lot of it
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    what is SN plus? ok for mopar 2.4L world engine?

    They have; pqiamerica.com is the old site see https://pqia.org/resource-center/ SP included on https://i2.wp.com/pqia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/RevPC4-2020.1.jpg?ssl=1
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    Unusual Display at Walmart

    What part is not following the rules? If it's the listing as SN Plus as the resource conserving "classification", while the API "service category" is SP, that is acceptable on an oil listed as API SP for the "service category" during a transition period The top of the donut is the API service...
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    Off Brand Oil

    As alleged by PQIA, apparently they were previously displaying the marks without being licensed and have now, as noted above, addressed licensing https://pqia.org/simply-done-sae-5w30-motor-oil/ https://pqia.org/simply-done-sae-10w30-motor-oil/
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