Mobil 1 5w-30 Shortage

[kschachn]

I have been following the various posts here about the post-Katrina affect on Mobil 1, but it really came home today. I went to my local Walmart to pick up a jug and they were totally out of both the standard Mobil 1 and the EP in the 5-quart jugs. They had (count them) three single quarts of the regular in that viscosity.

I went to two other Wal-Marts and finally at the third one I found a single jug of the standard Mobil 1. No EP in 5w30 was to be found. Also out of the three I found one single quart of the Truck and SUV variety.

Hopefully everything will be brought back to normal soon.

 

[Dave Hess]

Too bad you don't live closer. I would sell you my 8 cases of Mobil 1 that I got at PepBoys with the B3G3F coupons.

 

[gudmund]

was just at my local K-mart today and they still had pre-katrina M1 and lots of it. Prices were somewhat higher than W-M but they do have it in stock-at least in my area. K-mart still has the look of them going out of buisness thou-the place always look empty of people and not much stock-but they did have M1, they even had 6 qts of old old Tri-Syn SJ 10w30 along with SM and a good mix of EP-all for about $6.00per qt or less and all was like I said Pre-katrina with the API label.

 

[Quockieo]

I saw some mobil 1 5w30 and 10w30 quart bottles SM/GF-4 with the api starburst and donut at sears inside the mall here in texas. This was when i was shopping around during christmas time (Dec.21st). I was surprised to see that many SM/GF-4 M1 there.

 

[Eddie]

My WalMart has fully restocked the 5w & 10w30 5quart(Mobil 1 & EP containers with the PRE-katrina oil.

 

[Bear]

Our Wal-Mart had a good stock of quarts @$5.39 on Sunday. I was just getting a quart for my snowblower so i didn't look at/for the jugs.

 

[kschachn]

As an update, I went to yet another Wal-Mart (one near my work) and they had a better supply. Quite a bit of regular 5w30 plus lots of single quarts of the EP and Truck & SUV varieties.

It's funny, at first all the post-Katrina oil was missing the starburst from the front but all the stuff on the shelves now has it back. I wonder if this is old stock or Mobil has re-certified their alternate additive mixture (or gone back to the old formula).

 

[The Critic]

I called Mobil about the shortage of 5w30 EP and they said that it was due to Katrina. They plan on resuming a normal supply of 5w30 EP beginning 1/1/06, as I was told.

 

[Tremo]

I was at my local Wally's 2 days ago. The shelves are nearly bare of M1 products. No 5 qt jugs at all, and only a few single quart bottles. If I needed to do a change today I'd buy Pennzoil Platinum, as they seem to have that in good supply, in the 5 qt jugs.

 

[adam123]

Im just 600 Miles into this change with 5w30 Mobil EP. So Im not worying just yet,but around here you can't find anything Mobil except Mobil 5000. The rest is gone. (In 5w30)