Quaker State 300,000 Mile Cash Back Program

[Carlostrece]

I can understand why a company wouldn’t want to pay $30 million but then again don’t put out the challenge if you are not willing to back it up. $3000 is not a lot of money though. I don’t see a reason why they shouldn’t pay out. It would be good advertisement for them if anything. All that said as many stated people don’t drive their vehicles that long generally and most people will probably forget shortly after signing up. Which is probably what the company is expecting in the long run.

So you're saying that Quaker State is unlikely to have to to pay because no one is likely to win. I agree. I wonder if it's even possible to win. If you did win, I wonder if Quaker State would admit it.

 

[wsar10]

Boy they will do anything to get you to use their junk...

 

[Dave P.]

If you are a commercial driver like Uber it might be worth it. I don’t see that they’re excluded. Note that in addition you’re required to document that you faithfully followed all required maintenance, not just oil changes.

Otherwise too many ways to fail. Car accidents or they might simply exercise their right to terminate the program.

I think that if you had to follow, perform and record every owner's manual recommended service, you would probably spend more than what you will potentially get back. If you try to collect on some program like this, Q/S would probably go through your records with a fine-toothed comb and be sure to find some little thing that got overlooked.

 

[tired]

I seem to recall Pennzoil giving out a 250k warranty if you had an engine failure but nothing like this cash back setup. This is a first. I think very few people will end up getting it in the long run.

Yeah I saw these warranties and asked one time if anyone knew of someone successfully filing a claim with them. ExxonMobil, Pennzoil, AMSOIL, they all have something. No one could remember anyone having successfully filed a claim with them.

Edit: here is my thread

tl;dr: these guarantees don't amount to much.

 

[Carlostrece]

Boy they will do anything to get you to use their junk...

I don't think Quaker State oil is junk, but I don't take their contest seriously.

 

[gasman556]

Has anybody ever collected under any of these schemes?

When I was in fifth grade, I had a cruel teacher. He told the class of 30 students, that if everybody got 100% on the weekly spelling tests, he would take us all for a day at the local amusement park. Of course, this was impossible, as in the class we had one girl who was dyslexic, and two Puerto Rican boys who could barely speak English.

While spelling scores did improve overall, the girl rarely got more than 5 or 6 right out of 20 words, and the Puerto Rican kids didn't do that much better. But what it did was make these poor kids the object of anger and ridicule from those who got 100% on the spelling test.

The teacher knew that the likelihood of 30 kids getting 100%, even if none were dyslexic or non English speakers, was zero.

Sounds like he had a cruel way of pointing out that sometimes we have to accept things the way they are vs the way we want them to be.

 

[wsar10]

I don't think Quaker State oil is junk, but I don't take their contest seriously.

I don't think their products are junk either.... I was just being a wise a$$.

 

[Pretty Lies]

I don't think Quaker State oil is junk, but I don't take their contest seriously.

Yeah, that's fair. But, I still like the contest. Everytime you buy their oil, you're not spending money, you're investing in a future payout. Of course, rationally, I get the point - highly unlikely it will be paid for various reasons (life gets in the way, your car gets wrecked, something new comes out and get rid of your car). But again, I still think it's a cool idea.

 

[Carlostrece]

What I like about Quaker State is good oil for great prices at Walmart.