Going by the usual everyday Walmart price (locally) of $27.97 you’re saving about $7.83 per 5 quart jug.
Enough for two gallons of 91 octane 100% gasoline..
Z
Oil Brand consideration Mobil 1 to Kirkland
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Going by the usual everyday Walmart price (locally) of $27.97 you’re saving about $7.83 per 5 quart jug.
Enough for two gallons of 91 octane 100% gasoline..
Z
It does, they occasionally have it for $32 for 2@5qt
if it were me i would stay with a name brand oil, why when you buy a car for alot of money, then try to scrimp on a few dollars on engine oil makes very little sense ,there are many good choices on the market,,if Mobil 1 is serving you well ,stay with it
It's about ROI. If you can get the same results using a store brand oil, that's a good ROI. Bear in mind I'm a penny pincher!
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using enough of their competitors EHC and still calling it synthetic
Heh... barely watch this forum the last few years... not much has changed LOL.
If an oil has the spec and viscosity recommended, go for it, and use your brain cells for something that will pay you dividends versus something that lives rent free in your head for nothing
M1, only going in my engine if it's on rebate.
If an oil has the spec and viscosity recommended, go for it, and use your brain cells for something that will pay you dividends versus something that lives rent free in your head for nothing
M1, only going in my engine if it's on rebate.
Probably very minimal. I personally use Kirkland almost exclusively now after 1015 years of M1. I am not against using M1 but Kirkland is about half the cost. If I was to have more faith in M1 EP 20k OCI, I would use that. It was my last M1 batch but I went with Honda’’s maintenance minder anyway.
If I was to go back to M1, I would go back to EP as it is only $2 more and rated for twice the mileage, even though I don’t take advantage of it. For me to go 20k OCI, I would have to do a minimum of 3 UOAs on Kirkland, M1 EP, and multiple other types to have a decent sample size across multiple oil and at multiple OCI. By the time I find out what is the best, what is sufficient, and if 20k is doable, I’ll be racking up 100k-150k extra miles and close to the end of my driving adventures.
So I stick with Kirkland, which is more than good enough. I do want to try Penzoil Ultra Platinum so see if I can feel any difference. Then again, would a higher viscosity achieve the same thing of quieten down a workaholic 1.5l NA engine hauling 3 people and gears with A/C blasting.
No... proven by the motor oil geek Lake speed. He is the oil information god. Check him out on you tube. Kirkland is warren products brand and is good. Perhaps not a good as Mobil 1? I dunno... Maybe. Lake will have to explain it
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I like to support fully integrated companies with R&D branches that in my mind are far more essential … Walmart gets plenty from me either way …
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How do you affirm Pennzoil Ultra Platinum as being thicker than Supertech in viscosity?
Running AC a-lot? Sounds like your engine-quieting best friend may be 10w30 Syn..... maybe 10w30 HM Syn.
You haven't even mentioned what current viscosity you're using.
For my peace of mind, I run Mobil1 EP and Mobil1 EP oil filters. Couple bucks more for the assurance I've got the protection needed.
Does he walk on water? Which oil company is he currently blending for?
There can only be one and it’s Dr. Leslie Rudnick.
A VOA is not the correct way to determine oil performance.
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There is a UOA on here comparing Mobil 1 o-20 to Kirkland 0-20 in same vehicle for 10k and they are identical results. Everything normal.
With all the new specs in oil over the years, now say with Dexos Gen 3 oils, there isn't alot of difference between oils that meet the new specs. You pay more for some oils as they have to make up their advertising costs, make sure investers make money and paying of CEOs etc.
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You can't really make that determination with a UOA though, they don't have the resolution to compare different oils to each other, you'd really need to perform teardown testing to ascertain what the difference is, if any.
I think the suggestion is that the performance is the same, not that the oil is the same.
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Right. You can't compare the performance with UOA's, they lack the resolution, you'd need to perform teardown testing.
Even within Mobil’s own lineup they have oils that meet and some that far exceed the approvals. Kirkland would be more comparable to Mobil Full Synthetic IMO.
I was always curious how we exactly know (putting aside their marketing information) if they exceed approvals, especially by “far”?
Kirkland says this:
Controls friction and engine wear better than the latest API SP requirement, especially during cold starts.
So they also exceed?
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