$63/gallon for “premium formula”?

[Elkins45]

I saw this in the Walmart clearance aisle today and had to get a photo as proof. $45 on sale, normally $63. Does anyone cheap enough to still be running a two stroke outboard buy this stuff? Obviously Walmart can’t move it at $63. I doubt it sells at $45 either.

 

[JohnnyG]

I'd say that if you can run it in OPE, and compare that price to those little 2.6 oz bottles of 2 cycle oil, it might be a great deal.
You know the ones, Black Max, Echo, etc.

 

[JayhawkRoy]

$ .91 for 2.6 oz btl equivalent

 

[Not Sure]

I saw this in the Walmart clearance aisle today and had to get a photo as proof. $45 on sale, normally $63. Does anyone cheap enough to still be running a two stroke outboard buy this stuff? Obviously Walmart can’t move it at $63. I doubt it sells at $45 either.

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Thats a pretty good price for 2 stroke oil of any kind these days.

The XPS stuff for my Skidoo is going for about $75 a gallon these days.

I am paying over $80 a gallon for Echo red armor oil (yes I buy it in gallons because it’s much much cheaper than in smaller quantities) this year.

I believe a decade ago the cheap XD 50 Etec outboard oil was going for around $40 a gallon and the XD100 was more like $60 a gallon. We went through a lot of that XD 100 oil in the boat rental business as our whole fleet was running Evenrude Etecs at the time and they each got about 2,000 a year put on them. We ran them on the richer XD 50 setting with the XD 100 oil as recommended for commercial operation and got incredible life out of those engines with them still running good after 4-5 years and 7,500 hours when we replaced them as standard operating procedure. They started to develop problems after 4 or 5 years mainly electrical problems like sensors going bad, EMMs failing, and Injectiors going bad and became more trouble then they were worth. When you lose a boat on a Saturday morning and cant get it fixed till Monday you lose a bunch of money in lost business and have some really pissed off customers that have their rentals often reserved weeks or months ahead cancelled. So we never ran any of these engines to failure, I would not doubt they might have been able to make it to 10,000 hours had we kept running them. Come to think about it I can’t remember a single powerhead failure on any of these engines, cant say the same about Mercs hell I don’t think we had one do them make it to 2500 hours without a powerhead replacement.