Royal Purple good cleaning oil?

[stenerson]

Originally Posted By: river_rat
Nope.
Pepboys exclusive contract expired last November, but they are still the only vendor.
....ON THE WHOLE PLANET!!!!! FOREVER!!!!!!

It's a tad frustrating.


Advanced Auto carries it, (at least the new store that just got built in our town does).

 

[stenerson]

Originally Posted By: Ben99GT
Originally Posted By: stenerson
Sounds like they simply saying it turns normal oil color
eventually. My is carbon soot dark after 3 days of driving.


With my original 2V in the Mustang I tried RP 5w30 for one oil change (the engine got Mobil 1 5w30 exclusively beforehand), it did exactly the same for me; went pitch black very quick.


Interesting, takes a couple of thousands miles for Mobil 1 to go black
in my truck.

 

[postjeeprcr]

Originally Posted By: river_rat
Nope.
Pepboys exclusive contract expired last November, but they are still the only vendor.
....ON THE WHOLE PLANET!!!!! FOREVER!!!!!!

It's a tad frustrating.


There are two places you can buy them from online. The links are on the oil filter page on their website.

 

[river_rat]

Thanks y'all. I want to try them.
Our AAP should get them too, then in a few years. Iowa is a bit behind on that kind of thing. Nearest Pep Boys is more than 300 miles away and doesn't ship.

 

[tflessner]

Originally Posted By: yaris0128
I used it for a 7k change once and it was easily my favorite oil change. Havent touched the stuff since its gone up 3 bucks per quart. But it did go brown super fast but it was still cleaner than oils that have been used for a 1/4 of the mileage. My engine temps were lower and my engine was soooo quiet. RP is great stuff. Its on sale right now at Schucks, $39.99 for 5qts and a K&N filter!!! Youd pay more than that for just the oil! Amazing price. going to stock up!


I agree, my engine is quieter, smoother, etc. than any other oil tried. Checker/O'Reilly (same as Schucks?) has the same sale....$39.99 for 5qts and the K&N filter. Picked up 2 oil changes for future use! I'm convinced that Royal Purple is a top quality oil. I'm going to put it in the boat (5.7 Mercruiser) next year and see how it runs.

 

[gfh77665]

How long has RP been run? Anyone go 10K?

 

[StevieC]

When I tested it I went 10K KM's 6K miles and it was like 3 on the TBN.

My engine is hard on oil TBN though...

 

[aquariuscsm]

Cheapest place I`ve seen to buy RP is on Ebay. I bought a case awhile back for $6 a quart w/free shipping.

 

[jdog]

i agree this is garbage that you still cant find the rp filters anywhere but pep boys wut in the world is rong with with these peaple doo you here me autozone / orylies anyone?

 

[dparm]

RP is not [censored], but it's certainly not worth the price premium it carries. I'll agree their marketing is very good. Looking at their technical data it's fairly obvious that their products are mediocre.

 

[stenerson]

Originally Posted By: river_rat
Thanks y'all. I want to try them.
Our AAP should get them too, then in a few years. Iowa is a bit behind on that kind of thing. Nearest Pep Boys is more than 300 miles away and doesn't ship.


Our local NAPA also carries it.

 

[Ben99GT]

Originally Posted By: stenerson
Originally Posted By: Ben99GT
Originally Posted By: stenerson
Sounds like they simply saying it turns normal oil color
eventually. My is carbon soot dark after 3 days of driving.


With my original 2V in the Mustang I tried RP 5w30 for one oil change (the engine got Mobil 1 5w30 exclusively beforehand), it did exactly the same for me; went pitch black very quick.


Interesting, takes a couple of thousands miles for Mobil 1 to go black
in my truck.


That was back around 2002, before I learned a thing about oil other than what I read on the bottle. I ended up dumping it after about 4500 miles and going back to Mobil 1. Thinking back, I should have done a few runs with RP to see if it normalized. Mobil 1 had me hooked hardcore back then.

 

[river_rat]

Originally Posted By: dparm
Looking at their technical data it's fairly obvious that their products are mediocre.

They pulled the data from the website, and have refused to respond to my emails requesting a PDS.
I'm done with RP oil. I want to try the filters and call it a day.