See what you've done to me?

[Hollow]

How much I have changed over BITOG time.

Back in the day the only oil I used was Castrol GTX. It's what the family mechanic always used, so it was the go to oil. Usual other oil myths "3k changes or else" "Pennzoil and Quaker State are bad" and so forth.

Now my go to oils are whatever is on sale, with preference to SOPUS products. Trying new oils like G-Oil.

But now I have achieved a new "over come my OCD" venture. Mixing types of oils on hand for the next OCI.

In about a month the Subaru gets:
3 quarts G-Oil 5w30 (on clearance for $1/quart)
1 quart QSAD 5w30
.5 quart QSUD 5w30 left over from a previous oil change.

No turning back now!

 

[Darren270]

You're experience mirrors mine pretty much exactly.

 

[skyship]

What ever happened to brand loyalty?? I guess it disappeared when you all started buying Japanese cars to ramp up the national debt.
If you want to use cheap oil, then pick a good brand and stick to it, don't turn your engine into a chemistry experiment. There was a set of UOA results posted recently containing a change from one oil to another mix of two oils plus a can of snake oil. The results got worse, but with such a mixture there is no way of figuring out which one of the oils or can of gunk was to blame.
The USA has a reputation on a par with Russia for convenience stores that sell top up oil cans with new brand labels that are either disguarded industrial oils or used engine oil. We sometimes get the same problem with oil sold on E bay in the EU, but they tend to put it in good brand label containers, so the real risk factor is buying strange name oils, but bad habits start small, so I never encourage others to play mix and match with any engine fluid.

 

[Lead Shoes]

Just wait until you have so much oil you break closet shelves... or have to choose between clothes or more oil because you are forbidden to store it anywhere else lol.

Originally Posted By: skyship
I guess it disappeared when you all started buying Japanese cars to ramp up the national debt.


Seems like a pretty cookie cut vague USA MADE OR NOTHING statement, let me get ready for how this one plays out

.

I don't want this to get political (probably will), but being as deep as I am in my senior 400 lvl macro econ class, I know that people buying imported cars will not accumulate the debt we have as a nation nor is it much of a contributing factor in it.

 

[skyship]

Originally Posted By: Brenden
Just wait until you have so much oil you break closet shelves... or have to choose between clothes or more oil because you are forbidden to store it anywhere else lol.
Originally Posted By: skyship
I guess it disappeared when you all started buying Japanese cars to ramp up the national debt.

Seems like a pretty cookie cut vague USA MADE OR NOTHING statement, let me get ready for how this one plays out

.
I don't want this to get political (probably will), but being as deep as I am in my senior 400 lvl macro econ class, I know that people buying imported cars will not accumulate the debt we have as a nation nor is it much of a contributing factor in it.


Why does anyone with a normal car store more than 1 ltr of top up oil or a 5 ltr jug for their next oil change??
Yes I kind of know that importing all that oil cos you have been driving moster V8 gas guzzlers with auto boxes and AC to the malls for too many years AND not building a high speed rail network back in the days the US had spare cash, rather than spare loans to make things worse, was not such a great idea, along with all those plastic and electronic toys from China. Tax and Spend was the answer in Germany and the UK, tax the fuel and spend it on public transport.

 

[hounddog]

I'm 58 years old. From the time I could drive and change oil in a car,16 years old. I have NEVER bought oil due to what was on sale. NOR have I ever mixed oils. NOR have I swapped brands once I started using a brand I liked. I don't swap brands of toilet paper either. About [censored] and my big dislike for Korean junk. If more imported goods were liminted in this country and we HAD to get Textile mills,steel mills back up and running to make clothes,cars etc. This country would start too prosper again. You have to keep all that you can IN HOUSE. Make,build it and sell it back to yourself! When this country did that there was no where near the issues about jobs and well being. This county needs embargo's on imported goods of any sort.

 

[beanoil]

Originally Posted By: hounddog
I'm 58 years old. From the time I could drive and change oil in a car,16 years old. I have NEVER bought oil due to what was on sale. NOR have I ever mixed oils. NOR have I swapped brands once I started using a brand I liked. I don't swap brands of toilet paper either. About [censored] and my big dislike for Korean junk. If more imported goods were liminted in this country and we HAD to get Textile mills,steel mills back up and running to make clothes,cars etc. This country would start too prosper again. You have to keep all that you can IN HOUSE. Make,build it and sell it back to yourself! When this country did that there was no where near the issues about jobs and well being. This county needs embargo's on imported goods of any sort.

You will surely want to switch to Brad-Penn oils then. 100% USA drilled and filled. Now getting your vehicle to start may be another issue with all the imported oil being used to make gasoline. And then there is that pesky FI controller that even in the American car you own may be from Japan or Germany. I agree with you to a point, but we now operate in a global economy, and your view may be slightly short sighted. To the OP, if you have a left over quart of something, mix away. You would be irresponsible to waste a resource that can be used successfully.

 

[Hollow]

I have a novel idea...let's stay on the actual topic instead of turning this into a political rant, k?

 

[ledslinger]

Originally Posted By: hounddog
I'm 58 years old. From the time I could drive and change oil in a car,16 years old. I have NEVER bought oil due to what was on sale. NOR have I ever mixed oils. NOR have I swapped brands once I started using a brand I liked. I don't swap brands of toilet paper either. About [censored] and my big dislike for Korean junk. If more imported goods were liminted in this country and we HAD to get Textile mills,steel mills back up and running to make clothes,cars etc. This country would start too prosper again. You have to keep all that you can IN HOUSE. Make,build it and sell it back to yourself! When this country did that there was no where near the issues about jobs and well being. This county needs embargo's on imported goods of any sort.


Problem is embargo causes price increases of all goods. Look what the fee on chinese tires did. BTW, Charmin?

 

[Darren270]

Originally Posted By: skyship


The USA has a reputation on a par with Russia for convenience stores that sell top up oil cans with new brand labels that are either disguarded industrial oils or used engine oil.


We do?

 

[surfstar]

Originally Posted By: Darren270
Originally Posted By: skyship


The USA has a reputation on a par with Russia for convenience stores that sell top up oil cans with new brand labels that are either disguarded industrial oils or used engine oil.


We do?


And skyship has a reputation for giving information that is completely wrong and off-base.

 

[A_Harman]

Originally Posted By: ledslinger
Originally Posted By: hounddog
I'm 58 years old. From the time I could drive and change oil in a car,16 years old. I have NEVER bought oil due to what was on sale. NOR have I ever mixed oils. NOR have I swapped brands once I started using a brand I liked. I don't swap brands of toilet paper either. About [censored] and my big dislike for Korean junk. If more imported goods were liminted in this country and we HAD to get Textile mills,steel mills back up and running to make clothes,cars etc. This country would start too prosper again. You have to keep all that you can IN HOUSE. Make,build it and sell it back to yourself! When this country did that there was no where near the issues about jobs and well being. This county needs embargo's on imported goods of any sort.


Problem is embargo causes price increases of all goods. Look what the fee on chinese tires did. BTW, Charmin?


I was a Northern user for at least 15 years, then gave Cottonelle a try about a year ago. I haven't looked back since.

 

[Darren270]

Originally Posted By: surfstar
Originally Posted By: Darren270
Originally Posted By: skyship


The USA has a reputation on a par with Russia for convenience stores that sell top up oil cans with new brand labels that are either disguarded industrial oils or used engine oil.


We do?


And skyship has a reputation for giving information that is completely wrong and off-base.


Clearly. Not to mention, what the [censored] is a "top up oil can"? The single quart bottles?

 

[skyship]

Originally Posted By: surfstar
Originally Posted By: Darren270
Originally Posted By: skyship

The USA has a reputation on a par with Russia for convenience stores that sell top up oil cans with new brand labels that are either disguarded industrial oils or used engine oil.

We do?

And skyship has a reputation for giving information that is completely wrong and off-base.


UMM! What about this oil sites consumer alert on the RHS, it needs a moving bar as there are too many for a list!!:

http://www.pqiamerica.com/

Looks to be that there have been more dodgy one quart (I presume) and even bulk oils for sale in the US than are even listed in the Western EU. (Bulk oil is in a different section)
Keeps all the lawyers and VOA chaps busy I guess.

 

[Lead Shoes]

Originally Posted By: surfstar
Originally Posted By: Darren270
Originally Posted By: skyship


The USA has a reputation on a par with Russia for convenience stores that sell top up oil cans with new brand labels that are either disguarded industrial oils or used engine oil.


We do?


And skyship has a reputation for giving information that is completely wrong and off-base.


yeah secretly I think it's carnoobies 2nd account

LOL.

 

[surfstar]

Originally Posted By: skyship


UMM! What about this oil sites consumer alert on the RHS, it needs a moving bar as there are too many for a list!!:

http://www.pqiamerica.com/


WTH!?! Those are some 'dodgy' looking oils. I wouldn't even be able to find them on a shelf for purchase, though. Anyone who would pick one of those over a brand that they've actually heard of, might be deserving, though.
Pretty sure this would never affect 99% of the population. Possibly even fewer.

 

[threeputtpar]

Originally Posted By: HollowEyes
3 quarts G-Oil 5w30 (on clearance for $1/quart)



Holy cow, where is this? I will back the truck up to the front door. Thank you.

 

[zerosoma]

Originally Posted By: A_Harman


I was a Northern user for at least 15 years, then gave Cottonelle a try about a year ago. I haven't looked back since.



Bahahaha!

Still a Quilted Northern user unless I can find Angel Soft or Cottonelle on sale!

 

[dailydriver]

Originally Posted By: hounddog
About [censored] and my big dislike for Korean junk. If more imported goods were liminted in this country and we HAD to get Textile mills,steel mills back up and running to make clothes,cars etc. This country would start too prosper again. You have to keep all that you can IN HOUSE. Make,build it and sell it back to yourself! When this country did that there was no where near the issues about jobs and well being. This county needs embargo's on imported goods of any sort.


All of the Randians/'free-marketeers' on here are going to have a field day with this (even though I personally agree with you for the most part).

The Catch-22 is that they are also the very first/most fiercely vociferous to vehemently complain about those without employment in this country due to their 'free-market global economy' principles above ALL, and their insistence/demands that we REWARD those who ship ALL of the work out of this country to help out the poor, desperate, trillionaires.

 

[hounddog]

Global economy and worrying about prices and such. Thats why we are in the state we are in. We make it,buy it,use it. Keep it all in house. The economy feeds off that. Import cars. Yes. BUT export a one for one. If 'they' don't buy ours, we don't buy theirs. I worked for a auto dealer that was adamant about having anything done to a car,used and new cars outside his facilty. Any kind of repair,radio or accessories. New car wanted a aftermarket radio. First if it could be avoided and factory gotten that was preferred. No matter the price. If not then parts acquired the radio,billed it on a R.O. at a markup. Service installed the radio with labor billed. Sales had to deal with that and make a profit. They ALWAYS did! All depts got a piece. It showed on ALL depts end of month statements. As little money as possable went to the radio store he didn't own. Even in slow bad times dealer owner NEVER had a in the red month in any facilty he owned.
Some real skinny months but never in the red. He said keeping anything and everything in house was the number one reason. If one of his stores did not have a body shop that store NEVER sent a car elsewhere. If it had to be towed 50 miles to another store he owned so be it. Even if part of that wrecker bill had to be absorbed he was NOT going to give a body shop he didn't own a nickel. It was a iron clad rule. I saw and understood how it was very healthy for the company. This country is no different. WE use to be the same way. Keep the dollars here at home! Drop the unemployment,produce,buy and consume what WE make. So cost go up. So does profit and production. Goes hand in hand. End of my rant. I have7 used Amsoil products for about a decade or so. Dosen't mean I want9 ever use another brand] I like their products and I like buying through the Amsoil store. I use spray grease,wiper blades,oils/gear oils/hydraulic fliud etc. I order from Amsoil on line. Big Brown delivers to my door. I LIKE all of that.