Best Cheap Oil

[2000sunfire]

For fun let's open this can of worms:

Pretend you have to change the oil on a friends car. It's a regular old daily driver, nothing special about it or the way it's driven.

Friend says he can only afford 10-15 bucks TOPS for oil, say it needs 4 quarts.

What brand of oil would you use in it and what's your justification.

I'll go first

-whatever brand of dino of the correct viscosity was on sale at Wallyworld or Candian Tire, if nothing on sale then the house brand, or maybe the premium house brand. Reason: Get something cheap or don't pay for a brandname. All oil out there is good enough for a daily driver if you change it every 5000km or so (in my humble opinion)

o.k. but i admit i just dropped 36$ at wallmart on friday for a jug of Mobile 1 for my own car and I got a 7$ Napa Gold filter to go with it! However I change oil for some friends on tight budgets and am looking for cheap oils available in canada to give to them.

 

[JHZR2]

chevron supreme when on sale. I think it can be had for less than pennzoil typically, which would be my other top choice.

JMH

 

[bretfraz]

You can buy Chevron Supreme in several viscosities at Costco for about $1/qt. Most name brand oil fliters cost less than $5.00. Doing an oil change for under $15.00 using name brand products is a piece of cake.

You can even go synth blend and stay under budget. A friend of mine has a '03 Ford Ranger that requires 5W-20. I can use 4 qts of Monkeycraft 5W-20 plus a Supertech filter and do it for about $12.00.

So, like you, I'd use whatever viscosity spec was required and find the best oil for the price.

 

[2000sunfire]

Oh I forgot pretend said "friend" lives in my town where canadian tire and walmart are the only choices so I personally can't choose:
Havoline
Chevron
Motorcraft
Supertech
many others I cna't think of.

My choices are basically:
Canadian Tire house brand (-Nugold or Supreme or Forumla 1)
Quaker State
Penzoil
Valvoline
Castrol
Tech2000(Walmart)
Napa House brand (valvoline, I think)
Esso
I think that's about it

 

[427Z06]

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Originally posted by 2000sunfire:
...whatever brand of dino of the correct viscosity was on sale at Wallyworld or Candian Tire, if nothing on sale then the house brand, or maybe the premium house brand. Reason: Get something cheap or don't pay for a brandname. All oil out there is good enough for a daily driver if you change it every 5000km or so (in my humble opinion)

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There you go. Top it off with a SuperTech filter and your good to go.

 

[55Test]

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Originally posted by 2000sunfire:

Motorcraft
Supertech
many others I cna't think of.

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Supertech, in New Brunswick? Where? I'm in saint John and I've never seen Supertech around here.

 

[medic]

I thought SuperTech was available at all WalMarts? Isn't this their house brand?

 

[Reg# 43897]

...and you won't, either. Wallmart does not bring it's proprietary line of filters into our country - they have the orange wall instead. Canadian Tire now has Max-life filters that are made by Purolator (Champion, I would assume) but they are not bargain-priced at all. Get a Wix.

John.

 

[Bryanccfshr]

I would say Chevron Supreme(or whatever is on special or clearance that meets the requiremnts) with a supertech oil filter opinion. For 4 quarts you are looking at doing it very cheap. That should only keep an engine going for a couple of hundred thousand miles with 5k changes.

 

[Yuk]

Petro Canada Maximum at Costco.

President's Choice (Esso Extra) at Superstore/Loblaws.

Pennzoil at Wal-Mart, during the two or three times a year it's on sale for $1.50/L.

One of the other name brand oils at Wal-Mart on the clearance rack, like the Chevron Supreme I just bought at $1.00/L.

Valvoline MaxLife (Purolator Pure One?) filter on sale at CT for $6.99 each or Quaker State filter (by Purolator) on sale at CT for $4.99-$5.99 each.

 

[Rob Taggs]

I don't know if you have access to Citgo motor oil. As for a filter Purolator is the best bang for the buck.

 

[Jackpot01]

Mobil DC and Supertech filter. 7-8 bucks total

Eric

 

[msparks]

Find a friend or neighbor who uses synthetic preferably Amsoil or Mobil one. When he changes out his ask if you can have it for free if you provide a clean container.

Catch the used synthetic, buy a new filter put that in your friend car, charge him $15 dollars and all will be happy.

 

[pitzel]

$15 will buy you 4L of Esso XD-3 0W30 full synthetic from an Esso bulk dealer.

Might be something to consider as well, because its really not a huge premium for 'synthetic' oil.

 

[Brons2]

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Originally posted by msparks:
Find a friend or neighbor who uses synthetic preferably Amsoil or Mobil one. When he changes out his ask if you can have it for free if you provide a clean container.

Catch the used synthetic, buy a new filter put that in your friend car, charge him $15 dollars and all will be happy.

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[TomJones76]

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Originally posted by Brons2:

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Originally posted by msparks:
Find a friend or neighbor who uses synthetic preferably Amsoil or Mobil one. When he changes out his ask if you can have it for free if you provide a clean container.

Catch the used synthetic, buy a new filter put that in your friend car, charge him $15 dollars and all will be happy.

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You know, if you are talking a guy who changes out his Amsoil or Mobil 1 at 5,000 miles, you could drain their oil into a clean container, then pay $10 for a Schaeffer's analysis to make sure you didn't get oil with excessive metal, anti-freeze or water contamination.
You could just sit on the oil 'til you got the UOA back.
That's a pretty slick way to get $35 of oil for $10. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I do know a guy who drives a Mazda and changes out his Mobil 1 "too often."

 

[Patman]

Keep an eye out for specials at Walmart, they sometimes sell 4L jugs of Castrol GTX 10w30 and 5w30 for only $5!

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

Pennzoil.

 

[sxg6]

motorcraft blend, if they sell ut there.

 

[Cyprs]

What Pitzel said, this oil is made by Mobil at half the price, full syn oil POA. $3.71 per litre.

Cyprs