meijers oil

[wadedog]

For those of you that have Meijers stores, it's a walmart type store with grocery.

they are selling their own brand of oil now in reg dino and synthetic i think called autotrend by meijer.

I wonder who really makes this oil ? and if it's any good.
syn for around 3 bucks.

 

[Oldmoparguy1]

I was in the Meijers In Monroe, Michigan back in Jan. All of the house brand oils had Wpp on the bottom of the bottles. Think it was ~ $.30 more a qt. then WM, Local Sears oil was #1.19, WM $1.27, and Meijers was $1.59 if I remember correctly. All were Wpp oil.

 

[TallPaul]

I recall Meijer oil that said bottled by Citgo on the back. This was about a year ago. And I thought it was labeled Meijer, not AutoTrend, though I think they also had AutoTrend. I believe there may be some old threads on the Meijer Oil if you search the forum.

 

[sambojoho]

Around here, the Meijer oils do not have the WPP on the bottom, only the Auto Trend. They used to say Citgo made, but don't anymore. If you want to buy the full synthetic Autotrend, I would recommend going to Walmart instead, and buying the Supertech synthetic. It is also made by WPP, but you can get it for around $12 for a 5 quart jug.

Before I switched to Walmart, I used to buy dino Meijer oil exclusively. Ran my Ford Ranger to 200k miles on it with no problems at all. Sold it due to rust.

I also still have some of the old Meijer oil filters, which were relabeled Purolator filters. Cleared all the local stores out of the m30's, snagged around 35 of them for $0.75 each.

 

[wadedog]

what does wpp stand for ( newbie here )

 

[ddean]

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Originally posted by wadedog:
what does wpp stand for ( newbie here )

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WPP = Warren Distribution Inc / Warren Performance Packaging. Makes house brand oil for many store chains (some Wal Mart, Sear's Spectrum) plus its own brand MAG - 1 oils. Has a WPP on bottom of all oil bottles.

Not to be confused with Warren Oil Company, which is a different company that recently bought Coastal Oil.

Meijer AutoTrend synthetic has always been WPP locally. Most Wal Marts in Ohio seem to carry WPP bottled Super Tech full synthetic oil, most stores carry the Exxon Mobil bottled Super Tech conventional oils. Super Tech bottled by Exxon Mobil will look like the big neck rounded blue Exxon SuperFlo bottles (Autozone carries Exxon SuperFlo) and WPP will be marked WPP on bottle in plain square grey and/or blue bottles with the gallon and 5 quart bottles looking like antifreeze jugs.

There seems to be a bit of confusion about who currently makes the Meijer Brand oil, but all of the oil the I have seem with the Meijer brand has been bottled by Citgo. I think that when the new SM / GF-4 specs went into effect last year that the labelling was changed by Citgo/Meijer and the made by Citgo was dropped. This was around the same time that Meijer dropped the Citgo lineup as well. The printed ink time code markings and API codes (some as still SL / GF-3) on the bottles as well as the bottles themselves seem to still be the same as the Citgo oils.

Meijer / Citgo oils seem to be well like around here by some. Group I oils with nice amounts of additives. The high milage oils have very nice additive packs nearly on par with many HDEOs (Heavy Duty Engine Oil = Diesel and gas engine rated) in viscosity grades that are hard to find.

 

[Korean_redneck]

It used to be Citgo.. now its WPP

 

[ddean]

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Originally posted by Korean_redneck:
It used to be Citgo.. now its WPP

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Probably old stock still on the my local shelves. Lucky here I guess

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Maybe Katrina / Rita supply shortages? Locally some Wal Marts had some WPP 5 quarts mixed in with the XOM 5 quarts, but only a few bottles here and there.

 

[Triple_Se7en]

The plastic jugs from XOM are still being used -- due to a shortage last summer. The oil inside that XOM jug is now supposedly Warren. I think the WalMart (Super Tech) contract with XOM expired a few months ago. I think Warren now bottles it everywhere for the USA Wally World stores.

 

[Chris Meutsch]

I exclusively used Meijer oil (blue 10w30, green/yellow 5w30 labels) from 1997 to 2001 on a 1989 Mazda MX6 and 1994 Dodge Grand Caravan. 3k oci's on the Mazda, 5k on the Dodge. Also used the Meijer oil filters on the van. Never had any problems, oil stayed clean for longer than you'd think it would in older cars.

 

[metroplex]

The Meijer 10W-30 dino I just bought doesn't have WPP or bottled by Citgo anywhere. Instead, it has a "G" logo on the bottom of the bottle.