Walked into my laundry room where I store some oil and see a big puddle on the floor. Start pulling jugs off the shelf until I find this.
How does this happen?
They have been there at least a year.
Potential oil spill warning if you have Supertech in your stash
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Walked into my laundry room where I store some oil and see a big puddle on the floor. Start pulling jugs off the shelf until I find this.
How does this happen?
They have been there at least a year.
What a smelly mess. I’m sorry this happened to you.
No smell.
Had a jug of Mobil 1 do that on the passenger side floorboard of my Grand Sport over the course of a week or so. It had a imperceptible leak at the seam on the bottom of the jug. Still smells like oil if I park it in the sun and it was a few years ago. I use plastic boot trays now under my jugs that I got at IKEA.
Another warning about plastic containters. DON'T PUT ANTIFREEZE IN LOGO'D BUCKETS YOU BUY AT THE BIG BOX STORES! Ask me how I know.
This is my major concern with having a large oil stash, it's not that the oil gets old or goes bad - I'm not worried about that, but rather it's how long can I trust the plastic oil containers and the plastic lids.
You need some SuperDry for your Supertec;
Another reason NOT to overstock!
I've lost 1 gallon of Prestone and 3 gallons of Great Value distilled water to this. It's pretty clear that a lot of companies are buying plastic jugs as cheaply as possible, durability be ****ed. I've got quite a few 5-quart jugs of Mobil1 and PP out there I guess I'll start praying for.
This is concerning, but most/much of my oil is in either an extra outer plastic bag or a shipping box to retain or mitigate oil spills or damage to the container. But yeah, this would be a massive mess.
At least your garage shelves now enjoy the extra protection from synthetic oils, just saying.
I had a very old gallon of A&P hand detergent (for restroom dispensers) do that. Also 1-gallon milk bottles after I've used them repeatedly for drinking water. Never a plastic oil container (which are the same material, but much thicker), so far.
Detergent bottles, a bottle of windshield washer fluid in a carpeted bedroom storage area (carpet is still orange), cooking oil, you name it.
The bearings and bolts on that shelf will last forever with a quality synthetic changed at recommended intervals. Have you sent it in for a UOA to know when you should puncture your next bottle?
That's awful, man. Hope you were able to find a way to clean it up.
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Watch that kind of thinkin' here at BITOG. Might get you blacklisted LOL
One reason why I keep any my oil in the garage and not in the house, well the other reason would be the wife not letting me.
I've had quart bottles that I use to transfer oil out of 5 quart jugs leak on me but that is from them being old.
I've had quart bottles that I use to transfer oil out of 5 quart jugs leak on me but that is from them being old.
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