I'm confident that if oil change intervals happen at OEM specifications, the fleet wide effects is this change will be very close to nil.
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Mopar is revising OCI’s down.
But the problem is, most people don’t take care of their cars.
BITOG is literally the top 1% of oil users. I say this consistently.
The bottom 50% of car owners, don’t even know there is oil in their car. Let alone the viscosity or brand. This is why the DIY market is shrinking and the DIFM market is growing. Why dealers are doing free oil changes. Why they’re pushing leases and maintenance packages so hard. Why on vehicle telematics is a thing with the different apps and such.
Because people don’t maintain their cars.
All agreements of this type are force majeure. However it’s very unlikely they would get cut off. On allocation likely.
Well, there is only one oil with a widely accepted ability to clean piston rings...
But there are several (many?) that can keep them clean
Walmart was completely cut off by Exxon Mobil and Shell a couple months ago. Rumor has it Walmart stocked up big time before they were cut off. Whatever is on Walmart shelves should be what they have stocked up in their distribution centers. That is to say it should all be the original spec oil before this all happened and how they’re able to maintain their current pricing.
There's not much Supertech at our local walmart. In the 0w-anything grade. There's still their heavier grades and diesel oil.
Sure, but if people are concerned about the lower quality base stock substitutions potentially clogging rings faster then for me the no-brainer choice is VRP - even if the base stocks get worse, whatever magic additive they came up with will still be there to clean.
