Adding a cheap quart in addition to 5qt/liter jug

[Ball9320]

I’m late to starting my own oil changes on my 22’ Tacoma (0w20). Now that warranty is up I’ll be doing them myself and am baffled by the price (Canada) of single quart or liter bottles of name brand oil. The big 5L jugs are always on a good sale (30-40$ cad) but it’s around 17$ in change for a single qt of Castrol Edge, Pennzoil Platinum, Valvoline or Quaker State Ultimate Durability. Super tech is 8.88, I see good things about it on here. Some would say just use Supertech all around I’m sure but is it wrong to add an affordable single qt of a different oil with the large jug of something else?

 

[ls1mike]

I’m late to starting my own oil changes on my 22’ Tacoma (0w20). Now that warranty is up I’ll be doing them myself and am baffled by the price (Canada) of single quart or liter bottles of name brand oil. The big 5L jugs are always on a good sale (30-40$ cad) but it’s around 17$ in change for a single qt of Castrol Edge, Pennzoil Platinum, Valvoline or Quaker State Ultimate Durability. Super tech is 8.88, I see good things about it on here. Some would say just use Supertech all around I’m sure but is it wrong to add an affordable single qt of a different oil with the large jug of something else?

No. It will be fine. My Trans Am gets a mix of all the leftover oil when it is time for an oil change. Mostly Mobil 1 but various weights and other brands.

 

[charbaby]

Yes, you can mix a le$$er L of oil to the mix of the 5L of oil.
But, you can also buy an extra 5L jug and keep it around for the next OCI.
If my vehicles took more than 5L of oil, I'd just buy 2 - 5L jugs. You can keep oil around for a long time.
This way, the next time you buy a 5L of oil, you'll already have your extra L to add to the mix.

 

[Patman]

Don’t mix oils, just buy an extra 5L jug of the same oil. My Corvette takes 6L so I just buy all of my oil in 5L jugs and take the extra 1L out of one of the jugs

 

[Kira]

The notation for liter or litre is the same; a lower case 12th letter of the alphabet .>>an "l", not an "L".

5l jug or 5.0l engine = correct
5L jug or 5.0L engine = incorrect

Yes, I think use of the potentially confusing "l" is less than optimal, but correctness counts.
At BOTOG we want the BEST oil, the BEST filter and the proper abbreviations.

 

[Ball9320]

Thanks for the replies! I guess I was leaning toward the extra quart fo make sure I had empty bottles for used oil storage/return. I’m sure I could use a different container as I wait to empty the second jug, all common sense but thanks for listening!

 

[Patman]

The notation for liter or litre is the same; a lower case 12th letter of the alphabet .>>an "l", not an "L".

5l jug or 5.0l engine = correct
5L jug or 5.0L engine = incorrect

Yes, I think use of the potentially confusing "l" is less than optimal, but correctness counts.
At BOTOG we want the BEST oil, the BEST filter and the proper abbreviations.

But yet you call it BOTOG?
I’m gonna keep using the abbreviation L for liters thank you very much. The lowercase L just looks like an uppercase i. Too confusing. And you’re not the boss of me

 

[ka9mnx]

Don’t mix oils, just buy an extra 5L jug of the same oil. My Corvette takes 6L so I just buy all of my oil in 5L jugs and take the extra 1L out of one of the jugs

I don't understand why people don't get this.

 

[4wd]

Well, as for M1 - the Costco six packs always complimented the Walmart jugs …

 

[userfriendly]

Thanks for the replies! I guess I was leaning toward the extra quart fo make sure I had empty bottles for used oil storage/return. I’m sure I could use a different container as I wait to empty the second jug, all common sense but thanks for listening!

Change the oil when it’s down a litre. The filter will hold some oil even if you turn it upside down for a week.
The best way to recycle oil and filters is leave them in the shopping cart at Canadian Tire.

https://usedoilrecycling.com

 

[Hohn]

The notation for liter or litre is the same; a lower case 12th letter of the alphabet .>>an "l", not an "L".

5l jug or 5.0l engine = correct
5L jug or 5.0L engine = incorrect

Yes, I think use of the potentially confusing "l" is less than optimal, but correctness counts.
At BOTOG we want the BEST oil, the BEST filter and the proper abbreviations.

In Bitog font, the 5l and 5I are indistinguishable. Yes, I typed an uppercase letter i there, but you cannot tell.

It's more important to distinguish "i" from "l" than it is to distinguish uppercase from lowercase.

 

[Leo99]

The notation for liter or litre is the same; a lower case 12th letter of the alphabet .>>an "l", not an "L".

5l jug or 5.0l engine = correct
5L jug or 5.0L engine = incorrect

Yes, I think use of the potentially confusing "l" is less than optimal, but correctness counts.
At BOTOG we want the BEST oil, the BEST filter and the proper abbreviations.

L is fine. There should be a space between the value and unit. 5 L jug is what we'd use at work for official stuff. But we are not always 100% consistent with the space between at work. Space with units. No space between with symbols.

 

[Patman]

Change the oil when it’s down a litre. The filter will hold some oil even if you turn it upside down for a week.
The best way to recycle oil and filters is leave them in the shopping cart at Canadian Tire.

https://usedoilrecycling.com

I’m not so sure about that. What if they just end up putting that used oil back on the shelves?

 

[Urshurak776]

If it was an entire Litre, I would just buy an extra jug, and use a litre from it for the next 4-5 oil changes.

In my case, I have 3 cars that use a "splash" over 5 quarts. 5.1-5.2 quarts. I typically have some left over from my sons KIA oil changes, so it's usually a HM flavor of some sort. That's what I use for the extra splash in the other cars to get it to the FULL line. Not worried about it at all.....

 

[userfriendly]

I’m not so sure about that. What if they just end up putting that used oil back on the shelves?

I never thought of that. Nobody checks shopping carts going into the store.

 

[svtrit]

I’ve done this many times in my Chrysler 3.6L with Supertech being the single quart

 

[dubber09]

While I carry a 1L bottle of oil in car I never buy them but 5L or 5qt jugs. Canadian Tire is always happy to give away an empty oil jug and I take used oil to a near me bottle depot that takes oil, coolant, filters etc. Check your local bottle depots for what they take.

 

[wemay]

You'll be just fine.

 

[RyanY]

My Cadillac CTS takes 6 qts (5w30) so I am often faced with this same issue. Sometimes it gets 6 qts of the same brand/weight, sometimes it does not.

Sometimes it even gets truck/suv oil

 

[ZoomZ]

Wait till Black Friday at WM. They put Valvoline full syn on sale. Way below anything I've seen from Mobil 1 or Castrol. I'm in Canada as well. I usually buy x3 at a time. Good for 1 years of oil change and some leftover for the generators. Buy your oil filters from Rock Auto, best prices hands down. They will ship to Canada, no duties or extras.