It seemed like it at first but I and a few others have spotted it on shelves at Walmart, wouldn't surprise me much at all if it was just QSUD in another bottle.
Pennzoil phasing out conventional oil ?
- Thread starter KennethH
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Ive never had synthetic cause leaks on anything and I have ran it in older and newer engines, transmissions, axles, etc.
If you are getting leaks its because you already had a leak to begin with.
My 84 F250 diesel was never speced for synthetic but when I was using it as my daily it would get 5W40 synthetic in the winter. Going from 15W40 to 5W40 made starting the beast in the single digits much easier. The cork valve cover gaskets always seeped some. Even with new ones installed they seeped. Every year when I would switch over to Rotella T6 5W40 for the winter they would be dry within a week of switching to synthetic. As soon as I switched back to conventional in the spring they would start seeping again. That goes against pretty much everything I have ever heard about synthetic but I watched it happen 3 or 4 years in a row.
Wait, what?! Your a Castrol/Valvoline fanboy. Better wake up to fact that most conventional are now synthetic blends. Don’t hate on synthetics as they are in some ways better than conventionals
Besides I have tons and tons of SAE 30 and 40 and 10w40 and 20w50 I plan to donate. I’ll use the SAE 30 and SAE 40
AutoMechanic
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I have been stocking up on conventionals. And spin on oil filters too I’ve been told they are next to go.
Spin ons aren’t going anywhere anytime in your lifetime and mine. Take a look at new corollas
AutoMechanic
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Yeah I can only hope so. Someone from a certain agency told me they were. I personally prefer spin on filters myself, easier to change.
I highly doubt any agency told you this. Proof or it’s not happening
AutoMechanic
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You don’t have to believe it if you don’t want. Someone I know who works for the EPA said they were next to go. Just what she said no writing of it.
4WD
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Just keep some of your old bottles and fill them with the new stuff, change the oil. Problem solved.
AutoMechanic
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Not at all I was really told this. And I believe it too since they are getting rid of everything else.It’s just morestories.
They are likely phasing out new vehicles coming with twist-on filters, not that they are going to ban all twist on filters from ever being sold to fit on older vehicles. I think there may have been some misunderstanding happening there on your part. If the government decided to ban all twist-on oil filters being sold, they would start a civil war. LOL
EPA has a right to ban them from being specced on new vehicles, IMO. The systems where the cartridge drains out of a drain plug when changing the filter is a cleaner system than trying to keep a sideways mounted twist-on from dripping all over, and there is just less waste involved by not needing the metal housing and other parts that are just tossed into the landfills.
AutoMechanic
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It could be. They have been phasing them out on new cars for years now less and less every year. But it really would not surprise me if they were trying to ban them period especially since they are trying to get rid of gas and oil now. I asked her why and she said because they feel that they cause too much oil to spill when coming off which is total bogus no more than a cartridge element would when being brought out if they don’t have the drain in the bottom. They said it has to do with other things too but we can’t mention those here.
Without any inside info on this, I can 100% say with total assumption that this is not going to happen. They would in effect be banning all existing petrol vehicles on the road using twist-ons. Not. Going. To. Happen.
Well, maybe in California, but not elsewhere. LOL
Ban them on new cars? 100%
Ban them on existing cars? 0%
AutoMechanic
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Yeah I mean like I said this is what she said to me. I can see them doing something about it. I don’t think she would make anything up I’ve known her my whole life and she is very pro DIY repair and stuff like that she voted against them doing it but said she was in the minority there. They said the main reason is people not disposing of them properly and them letting out too much oil that could get on the ground to make its way into steams.
Spin on filters will never be banned. That's just crazy talk. I mean how would that even be possible? Pretty much everything with an engine and pressurized lube has a spin on filter.
Yeah. Someone got bad info. There are plausible conspiracies out there, but the EPA banning all spin-on filters for all vehicles is about as crazy as it gets. Even if such a thing were to happen, they would have a timeline where things are phased out.
I get that a lot of folks get the same conspiracy craze when they think the government is going to ban all guns and ammo on a single day and hoard it all up, but for oil filters? No.
Zee09
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This bunch hoards oil and filtersYeah. Someone got bad info. There are plausible conspiracies out there, but the EPA banning all spin-on filters for all vehicles is about as crazy as it gets. Even if such a thing were to happen, they would have a timeline where things are phased out.
I get that a lot of folks get the same conspiracy craze when they think the government is going to ban all guns and ammo on a single day and hoard it all up, but for oil filters? No.
