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The business to business relations in this industry are so fascinating. Shell sells GTL to XOM. XOM sells EHC to Shell. XOM and Shell jointly own Infineum. It's so wild how the competitors really are actually allies.
Post your latest oil purchase or even filter.
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The business to business relations in this industry are so fascinating. Shell sells GTL to XOM. XOM sells EHC to Shell. XOM and Shell jointly own Infineum. It's so wild how the competitors really are actually allies.
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The more I learn about Valvoline, the more inclined I am to buy something else
Other than the regular Maxlife, Maxlife ATF, and VR1 , I can't say there's much reason to buy most Valvoline products. Valvoline was most relevant in the era when Pennzoil and Quaker State were kind of infamous for sludge, but nowadays they seem like they're just another blender and Shell and XOM are more ahead of the curve and Chevron's at least out there developing low SAPS products for the heavy duty diesel space.
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Totally agree. I'm pretty committed to running all Shell and XOM products from now on unless things somehow change dramatically. I currently have some Valvoline stash to get through (motorcycle oil, some gear oil, and in my grease gun) and once those are through I'm done with them.
Two 12 quart boxes of Mobil 1 5w30 from Wally World.
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One quart of this Quaker State All Mileage 5W-30 oil. Last quart Walmart had for tonight. They were restocking everything so probably more on the pallet. Dads Camry uses oil about a quart every 2,000-2,500 miles so we keep an extra on hand. Poured the last extra 5W-30 in yesterday which was Havoline so we wanted to go ahead and get another one for next time. I don’t ever see many people posting about the all mileage like I have here. I’ve seen some good results with Quaker State here and used it in my truck once for the first oil change after I got it and haven’t had any issues so I trust it. This was cheaper than SuperTech too surprisingly. Had I not already gotten oil for the Escape and his car and moms car and my truck I probably would have chose Quaker State for at least one of them as they had just freshly restocked it.
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Not really a purchase but I found these in a used car at work that was a trade in. A 4 cylinder Tacoma. They will fit 4 cylinder Tacoma’s and older Highlander and possibly Sequoia too can’t remember. But nice finds. Still had the receipt in with them too. From OEMPartSource. One has a slight bit of rust at the top but I think they will still be good filters. The G2 filters are no longer made the D1 took their spot.
I wouldn't use it, especially if there is any rust on the center tube.
Anymore the wirebacked microglass filters from everyone are around $15, Royal Purple are a buck cheaper from Royal Purple direct if you want to buy bulk and buy enough to get free shipping, but $13 is the new normal for a filter like this, it's still cheaper than a Royal Purple or Amsoil when buying small quantities and it's essentially the same filter, I'd probably just use both of them and cut them up once you've used them, we've already seen what they look like on the inside and $13 is a little steep just to throw it away.
Is that supposed to be a tier better than the Ultra Adam?
The simple answer is NO for me! I have a dozen filters for the New Mazda the most expensive one was about $8.97. They will last longer than me unless I get real lucky!
They rate them at 25,000mi instead of the 20,000mi of the Ultra, but they're essentially a Royal Purple filter, the ISO 4548-12 testing showed that the old Ultra had more holding capacity than the equivalent Royal Purple filter, I can't say how it compares to the new Ultra in terms of capacity, but it's arguably better constructed since it's wire backed microglass versus microglass over cellulose and the can is thicker.
In hindsight I’m kinda wishing I got 2 Fram ULTRAS for$8~ each. Least I know what I’m getting
Scavenged 4 Ultra XG2 from my local Walmarts, regular price ($8.97 each).
All of them are wire backed (which apparently might be normal? Someone here mentioned they haven't changed the XG2 from original media). There are some left which I may go grab just to have them, but I only use one per year.
All of them are wire backed (which apparently might be normal? Someone here mentioned they haven't changed the XG2 from original media). There are some left which I may go grab just to have them, but I only use one per year.
