Havoline blend thoughts?

[HawkeyeScott]

I just picked up some Havoline Blend at a local grocery store. It's closing it out this month. I've been using MC blend in my wife's 2001 Jeep Cherokee, so I jumped at the cheap Havoline.

I've searched several times, and looked at 110 pages of UOAs, but have found very little about this SL oil. It seems little-talked about.

People raved about the dino produced alongside this blend, but I can't seem to find out much about the gray bottle blend. I realize it's kind of "hoard first, ask questions later", but any answers would be much appreciated.

Is it good? Great? Barely better than a dino? Not as good as the dino? Should I pawn what I bought on unsuspecting "friends"? Should I bathe with this stuff? Should I buy every drop I can at $1.44?


BTW, I'll probably use it 3500 miles or so, with NG or Wix 1085s.

Thanks in advance gents.

 

[Fordiesel69]

Well, if it is anything like the regular conventional oil, then it must be good. Maybe others will have some input.

 

[Triple_Se7en]

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Well, if it is anything like the regular conventional oil, then it must be good. Maybe others will have some input.

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The add-pack does not mirror the dino - even further away is the synthetic - which looks like a totally different oil brand/add-pack than the dino. The Havoline synthetic VOA is in the Virgin Forums & listed under the thread "Whole Bunch Of VOAs by deceased Stinky Peterson. Scroll down to the Texaco oil part.

 

[Ramblin Fever]

I was an avid Havoline regular oil user for YEARS, in many different vehicles; still love it, in fact, their regular oil is GREAT.

I can't really say good or bad for the blend, I did use 2 rounds of the havoline blend, 1 5w30 3k OCI and 1 10w-30 4k OCI.

I did a UOA on the 5w30 oci, in which the wear numbers were great, but there really didn't seem to be too many good additives left after only a 3k mile use.

I probably would've stuck to this oil though, but finding it became VERY hard, and the only place I could find it was at Advanced auto for the 10w-30 blend, and they wanted almost $4/qt; otherwise, I could find the 5w30 at a Havoline lube shop across town, but they wanted $4.75/qt

Just didn't think the hassle of trying to find it, along with the expense of it was worth what I was getting, so I'm now using Valvoline Maxlife synthetic which has a MUCH better additive package then the Havoline *blend* did - and it's nearly $2/qt less.

 

[Mr Nice]

I wonder how much Group III does this Syn Blend have ??