M1 Annual Protection?

[Garak]

Originally Posted By: gr8gatzby
What in the eff. Also, it's $12/qt. So it must be gold.

Like I said before, if Mobil is really interested in selling Americans $12 per quart oil, they should simply load a few buses there and take them shopping in Canada.

 

[TiredTrucker]

I knew if I look at their data sheet I would find a caveat. They wouldn't back me going 1 year / 20,000 miles. I fall into the extreme dusty conditions, as i have to driver several miles of gravel roads to the highway any time my vehicles leave the house. Amsoil does the same thing with their 25K or 1 year thing. They reduce it to 15K if any OEM severe service conditions are met. Which is just about anything except driving down the highway according to many OEM manuals.

 

[oil_film_movies]

TiredTrucker, that also leaves out taxi/Uber/Lyft drivers who might idle too much and do commercial service. They are the very ones who'd benefit from M1 Annual P or Amsoil SS too.

 

[Brandon Gatz]

For a car that has ZERO oil consumption this might make sense for 20k OCI's. However every car I've owned drinks enough oil to where I always I have a fresh quart in every 2-4k miles to top off. With this continual inflow of fresh oil I feel totally comfortable with going 10k-20k, though I never do.

 

[bbhero]

Good point Garak. I still don't understand why you all up there have to pay so much.... Not cool in my strong opinion.

 

[Garak]

When can get good specials. It's just that we can't decide to walk into Walmart (or CT) and buy our oil of choice on a whim. Unless you get lucky or plan ahead, you're out of luck.

 

[SubieMovie]

Originally Posted By: bbhero
Good point Garak. I still don't understand why you all up there have to pay so much.... Not cool in my strong opinion.


VAT taxes.

Someone told me how much they pay to get their vehicle serviced and my jaw fell, like in the cartoons where it can't be shut.

 

[Oregoonian]

Originally Posted By: gr8gatzby
Apologies blokes. I obviously didn't read the fine print.

Though, for the sake of truth in marketing, the bottle should read 20k protection, not annual protection. Pipe dreams I know, truth in marketing will never happen.

The reason IMO is.....there are very few people who do 20,000 miles per year on there vehicles....so one year OCI's should cover about 95% of all the folks out there.

 

[KCJeep]

The Castrol you are using is probably good for double what you are utilizing it at, that would save you time and coin right there.

 

[4WD]

Met an M1 guy staying at same hotel. Did some digging ... up to 60% more PAO and uses Visom 6 ... also 35% more antioxidants ...
WM did get ahead of mid March launch ... others to stock April to end of summer... could not get much else ...
I'll just wait for a better price and data should come in when affordable ...

 

[kschachn]

Originally Posted By: 4WD
Met an M1 guy staying at same hotel. Did some digging ... up to 60% more PAO and uses Visom 6 ... also 35% more antioxidants ...
WM did get ahead of mid March launch ... others to stock April to end of summer... could not get much else ...
I'll just wait for a better price and data should come in when affordable ...


All of which means what? Does all that substitute for certifications?

 

[4WD]

Nothing to you ... something to others. Point being there might be some reason for price ...
So you go buy current spec for your how old BMW ? Good for you.
Oil companies have to pick and choose on the OEM game ... I don't always- but sometimes do ... like I can't run Amsoil or Redline in certain newer vehicles but understand it's not Dino setting them apart ...

 

[bbhero]

That makes a lot of sense in this case about why the price is so sky high. Still going to be tough sledding in terms of selling much of this at $50 a pop.

 

[oil_film_movies]

Originally Posted By: bbhero
That makes a lot of sense in this case about why the price is so sky high. Still going to be tough sledding in terms of selling much of this at $50 a pop.
Great market demand psychology test: If this stuff sells at almost double the price of M1 15k EP oil, then that shows some people are willing to pay whatever it takes to put the "best" oil in their beloved engine. That and people who put on a lot of highway miles in a year and are sick of changing oil all the dang time.

 

[lonestar]

If you want a 6 pack of M1AP, you use 0w20, and you have Amazon Prime, u can get this oil for less than $48. So, 6 qts for less than Wally's 5 qt jug.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: oil_film_movies
then that shows some people are willing to pay whatever it takes to put the "best" oil in their beloved engine.

Pretty sure that has already been confirmed a long time ago by all the boutique oil makers out there.

 

[kschachn]

Originally Posted By: 4WD
Nothing to you ... something to others. Point being there might be some reason for price ...
So you go buy current spec for your how old BMW ? Good for you.
Oil companies have to pick and choose on the OEM game ... I don't always- but sometimes do ... like I can't run Amsoil or Redline in certain newer vehicles but understand it's not Dino setting them apart ...


Yeah when you compare the spec sheets for EP vs. the Annual Protection there isn't much that differentiates it. Maybe the only thing is better TBN retention?

And for OEM game I don't know what you mean.

 

[Nickdfresh]

Originally Posted By: TiredTrucker
I knew if I look at their data sheet I would find a caveat. They wouldn't back me going 1 year / 20,000 miles. I fall into the extreme dusty conditions, as i have to driver several miles of gravel roads to the highway any time my vehicles leave the house. Amsoil does the same thing with their 25K or 1 year thing. They reduce it to 15K if any OEM severe service conditions are met. Which is just about anything except driving down the highway according to many OEM manuals.





Weren't you basically pimping Amsoil here a few weeks back?

 

[oil_film_movies]

Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
Originally Posted By: oil_film_movies
then that shows some people are willing to pay whatever it takes to put the "best" oil in their beloved engine.

Pretty sure that has already been confirmed a long time ago by all the boutique oil makers out there.

Boutique oils never sold in high volumes like regular cheaper oil. Mobil thinks they can do it in a bargain store like Walmart. Good luck. It will partially work, but my local Walmart loaded up a very large set of shelves with M1 Annual for high volume.

 

[BrocLuno]

Is this the new "real Mobil1" ? Cause it sounds a lot like 1978 all over again