Castrol vs Valvoline

[GI_GRIFF]

My question was which product family would you choose if it came down to Castrol or Valvoline?

Castrol.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Both brands are ho-hum at best and foreign owned. Why limit yourself.

 

[GI_GRIFF]

Both brands are ho-hum at best and foreign owned. Why limit yourself.

Valvoline is foreign owned? I thought they were from USA based out of Kentucky.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Valvoline is foreign owned? I thought they were from USA based out of Kentucky.

The Saudi state oil company Aramco bought them. Quite a while ago.

 

[Miboy]

I think Valvoline is owned by a middle eastern country while Castrol is a UK company, not sure.

Castrol is on the selling block, by BP.

 

[JRay’07]

My question was which product family would you choose if it came down to Castrol or Valvoline?

I noticed Castrol has a good following here with many stating it has a high quality base stock. As for Valvoline I only see posts about R&P. Not too many on their other oils.

The home team.

 

[GI_GRIFF]

The Saudi state oil company Aramco bought them. Quite a while ago.

WOW! I did not know this, thanks.

 

[JRay’07]

From Wikipedia:

“Valvoline Inc. is an American retail automotive services company based in Lexington, Kentucky.”

 

[OVERKILL]

From Wikipedia:

“Valvoline Inc. is an American retail automotive services company based in Lexington, Kentucky.”

https://www.aramco.com/en/news-media/news/2023/aramco-completes-acquisition-of-valvoline

 

[4WD]

Folks here don’t want to put a foreign owned oil in a Kia, Stellantis, or Toyota

 

[KCJeep]

There’s a whole lot of dudes that watch football and grill burgers on the deck in between Walmart and the Saudis. Valvoline for me.

 

[Drifter]

Valvoline

 

[Kira]

A pal has gone on and on about Valvoline's cleaning abilities for decades.
He had industrial lubrication education and preferred V well before that.

 

[MetalSlug]

Valvoline for TV commercial . And Castro for nostalgia

 

[ka9mnx]

Neither...

 

[4WD]

There’s a whole lot of dudes that watch football and grill burgers on the deck in between Walmart and the Saudis. Valvoline for me.

PIF ?

 

[rszappa1]

Neither... Mobil 1 since 1974....

 

[cheesepuffs2]

Castrol GTX full synthetic, 5000 oci or 6 months, whichever comes first. Otherwise, if you are going to do the forever oci thing, use the Castrol Edge EP, gold bottle and change every 10,000 miles max or 1 year, whatever comes first. Use a premium filter. There is my opinion.

GTX Full Syn seems like a pointless product right now, considering on the shelf at Walmart it is currently only one cent cheaper than black bottle Edge per jug. Edge is the higher tier product so why not choose that?

 

[4WD]

PIF ?

IIRC - The Saudi Public Investment Fund sold its Walmart stake last year …

 

[Garman19]

I think Valvoline is owned by a middle eastern country while Castrol is a UK company, not sure.

Castrol is a uk company being taken over by middle eastern countries