Originally Posted By: NHHEMI
Originally Posted By: MBS500
difference is that some oils that are equal or better can be found for lower $$$ tag.
Noone says that RP is Cr@#p, just that it's expensive. Is it bashing? No, that's fact. Same as Motul, Pentosin, Elf, Selenia, Eneos Sustina for example.
1 - YES many people here( on BITOG )DO call RP Cr@#p. They DO. Flat out make claims it is bad oil even if they have never used it. Happens a lot and thus some generalized comments get made by those of us who defend the stuff. Maybe not this thread specifically but it does happen all the time here at BITOG.
2 - Again with this price thing.
It is so wrong it isn't funny. 1st of all you need to be specific and say you are tallking about the API formula and not the HPS or XPR lines which are definitely a better oil than the average stuff on store shelves and thus cost more. People just say "RP" as a collective and it is wrong to do so. Like Amsoil( that never goes through this too expensive bull )RP offers different formulas of oil so be specific which one you are refering to please.
When talking about their new(er) API oils, which is a fair comparison against M1/VVL/Pennzoil Platinum / Pennzoil Ultra/Quaker State Ultimate Durability/etc..., the ONLY place oils are cheaper than RP( regular prices - not sales, BOGO, etc... )is at Wal-Mart or online through oil distributors or places like Amazon( RP can be had cheaper like that too however ). Even at Wal-Mart is is only the 5qt jugs that are cheaper.
Go to any national parts store chain in the US and the RP API oils will be right there with the M1's, Pennzoil Platinum / Pennzoil Ultra, QS, VVL, etc... Approx $9-$10 a qt. So the RP API oils are NOT more expensive than the other oils in truth. There is one place you can go and get the oils cheap everyday but not everyone will shop at Wal-Mart nor does everyone want oil in a 5qt jug. People do buy oil in 1qt bottles all the time and when that happens RP API is no more expensive than the others. FACT!
You can also get RP API oils dirt cheap when you find a sale. I got a bunch of it through PepBoys late last year( maybe early this year? )and paid just $30 for 5qts WITH an RP oil filter. That made the oil less than any 5qt jug of synthetic at Wal-Mart and I had a premium filter to boot. I have found deals other places for RP API as well that made it in the $5 range as well. My regular sources for it here( speed shops )get it for me for just $7.50-$8 a qt but I have stocked up on deals so I haven't had to get it there for a while now. I just found a deal the other day for a case of 5W20 shipped for $87. That is just $7.25 a qt shipped. Pretty good price. It was either Amazon or EBay can't recall.
So the deals are out there if people just look. It isn't hard. But, you have to be willing to use it and frankly despite the claims they would "if it was cheap enough" I don't think most of those saying that really would ever give it a try.
Sure, there are posters on this forum that call RP garbage oil, just like there are others that call M1 garbage. Everyone has an opinion, whether they have used the oils in question or not, but when the mods start supressing opinions on this site it's the beginning of the end of the forums. Now, when it comes to posters attacking each other instead of debating the oils, filter, additives, etc, well then the mods do need to step in.
I posted a few pages back that when the regular retail prices of quarts are used as a comparison, one can get RP API SN at O'Reilly for $9.79/quart, which is about the same price as the other well known big name brands. Quaker State Ultimate Durability is a bit cheaper than that. The RP HPS non-API oil with the Synerlec additive is priced at $9.99/quart. For an additional $0.20, you can upgrade to the formula that used to be their standard offering. The Synerlec is what everyone raved about in RP, so with such a small price difference between the HPS and the API stuff, I think that not just RP is priced over what its value is but any regular syn oil priced >$9/quart does not provide a good value for the price. O'Reilly does now carry a couple of 5-quart jugs of the 5W-20 and 5w30 in the API SN oil, but the price is still $45.99 a jug ($9.20/quart). For a comparison, their M1 jugs are $35.99 each. It seems that RP isn't interested in offering much of a discount when selling in bulk like the other majors do.
I don't have a PB in WI, so I rarely see the 5 quart and a filter deal for $30 here so I'm at a bit of a disadvantage. I would consider trying it at that price in our Mountaineer, just to see what happenes. But alas, I have so much FAR oil that I don't need to pay full or sale price for anything for a while.
Oh, and I wouldn't call $3.50/quart for syn oil dirt cheap. That's probably what the actual everyday price should be, or at least no higher than $5/quart. Dirt cheap would be the $0.43/quart I recently paid for 24 quarts of Quaker State Ultimate Durability via sale price and MIR.
These are my opinions and I speak for nobody else but myself.