Interesting repackager of bulk motor oil for sale on Facebook Marketplace

[StarCaller]

A Facebook Marketplace seller in Rio Rancho, NM is offering repacked bulk motor.

When I first met my wife like 20 years ago, she mentioned that she would never go out with someone from Rio Rancho /
Good thing I was living in Santa Fe back then....

 

[nascarnation]

I see the next Forrest Lucas on the business horizon.

 

[zzyzzx]

It's OK for use in a chainsaw.

 

[Kira]

"Hello, I'm calling in response to your interest in the estates at Rio Rancho. Am I speaking with.......?"
from Glengarry Glen Ross.

It's OK for use in a chainsaw.

Yeah, as bar & chain oil once you add tackifier.

 

[zzyzzx]

Yeah, as bar & chain oil once you add tackifier.

Regular motor oil seems to work fine in a chainsaw. I've never felt the need to add anything to it.

 

[CKN]

You can't even buy a beater cheap enough anymore to risk using that oil..............

 

[BISCUT]

@GON How much to ship to NY?

 

[JavierH19]

$2.50 a quart isn't really worth it. I can buy mag 1 15w-40 with manufacturer approvals for $3.24 a quart with tax and free shipping to my door. For 5 quarts worth it's not even 4 bucks more to get clean uncontaminated oil that's better formulated and without wasting gas to drive there or having to deal with sketchy seller weirdness. That 5w-30 is probably an older sn conventional oil as those are more profitable and are still made for lube places. I highly doubt it's full synthetic SP with a d1g3 license.

 

[zzyzzx]

You can't even buy a beater cheap enough anymore to risk using that oil..............

If you had easy access to this oil and were dealing with a sludged up engine that you wanted to do multiple oil changes in in a short period of time, and didn't mind using most likely stolen oil on, it might be OK for that.

 

[ATex7239]

Triax Authorized Distributor Starter Kit

 

[Sumboodie]

Good grief, think of the contamination.

I have a hard time with some shops not closing lids on their bulk tanks.

This is ~3 months worth of dust in our building.. (all dirt roads here) Imagine that mixed in their oil.

 

[Tdbo]

No way in hell

Something like this.

 

[02SE]

Yeah, it looks like the guy has/had a job at a Jiffy Lube or similar, and was stealing oil out of the bulk dispenser. I could be wrong, but I doubt I am.

 

[bdcardinal]

Yeah, it looks like the guy has/had a job at a Jiffy Lube or similar, and was stealing oil out of the bulk dispenser. I could be wrong, but I doubt I am.

That was my first thought seeing this. Actually caught a lube tech trying to do something similar years ago. They didn't thing we dipped the tanks somewhat regularly.

 

[redhat]

I guess the theory of hustlin oil from one place of work makes sense as if you were trying to sell a 55gal drum… wouldn’t you last the whole drum, its contents or offer people to BYO-jug?

I’ve mixed coolant and kept it in milk jugs (from the distilled water jugs I’d buy water in) but never oil… at least long term?

Will the VOA show BPA?

 

[maggie06]

Sure sign me up, random motor oil, in cleaned out milk jugs, sitting out in the sun.

What makes you think the jugs were cleaned out? I lean the other way

 

[JTK]

Maybe if it was in Whole Foods milk jugs as opposed to WM Great Value.

 

[billt460]

Mighty is just a distributor. Back in the 80’s I bought some spark plugs from a private-named parts store. He gave me a box of “Mighty “ spark plugs. They were rebranded champions at the time. Never heard of them, so I naturally asked about them. Dude explained what they were and who made them. Since then I’ve seen filters and other parts clearly rebranded. I think they were just meant mainly for jobbers.

That and the fact Mighty Mouse was just a cartoon..... Superman was a real guy.

 

[JohnnyJohnson]

Looks a little dark for new oil to me.

 

[Pablo]

Does he ship?