Sealed motor oil has a shelf life of about 4-5 years.
I am officially nuts by the way. I went over to the CT at Shopper's World and bought 8 more L of this oil.
I can't resist a good sale.
I left behind only 5L, one of which someone opened (must've been sniffing it!)
They could have more in the back though.
It was interesting to note that all of the 0w30 they had was from the same batches I've gotten recently from my local Walmart, the one ending in 0607. So out of the 28L I have in my oil shrine now, most of it is from this batch.
My local Walmart did not stock up on the new 0w30 this week. They reorganized their oil section, and only have old 0w30 now. In fact, two of those bottles are super old 0w30, from at least 5 years ago or older, since it's the very old style skinnier bottle, and the label style is two styles previous! They also had some "Advanced Formula" Mobil 1 15w50 still there! This stuff is easily 5 years old too. So it's already older than I'd recommend using (based on Shell's recommendation on the shelf life of oil being 4-5 years)