Should I add to my oil stash?

[dan_erickson]

I have the 15 Accord that takes 0w20 that I drive every day and a 01 Grand Prix that I hardly ever drive but change the oil once a year. Now I have 25 quarts of 0w20 in the stash for the Accord and 5 quarts of Mobil 0w40 that I was going to finish up on the Grand Prix in the spring. At my local Auto Zone the $2.00 oils are Castrol Edge Gold bottle 5w20, Pennzoil Ultra Pure Plus 5w20, 5w30, and 0w40.

Worth buying even though I don't exactly need it right now and none of it is 0w20?

 

[JC1]

Originally Posted By: dan_erickson
I have the 15 Accord that takes 0w20 that I drive every day and a 01 Grand Prix that I hardly ever drive but change the oil once a year. Now I have 25 quarts of 0w20 in the stash for the Accord and 5 quarts of Mobil 0w40 that I was going to finish up on the Grand Prix in the spring. At my local Auto Zone the $2.00 oils are Castrol Edge Gold bottle 5w20, Pennzoil Ultra Pure Plus 5w20, 5w30, and 0w40.

Worth buying even though I don't exactly need it right now and none of it is 0w20?


There is always the temptation to stock up during a good deal. If you have enough in your stash for at least a 12 month supply, I would hold off for another 12 months.

I have enough oil in my Stash for another 12 months, so I'll start to restock up in about 10 months from now.

 

[eljefino]

Get the 5w20 and use it in the summers after the Accord gets some miles on. Or cut the 0w40 in the Grand Prix in winter. But if you let it slip through your fingers, you don't have options.

I speak as I have > 150 quarts.

 

[fdcg27]

By the time you go back, all of the two buck synthetic oil will be gone, so it really doesn't matter.
If you can grab some of the 0W-40 for the Poncho, then why not?

 

[bubbatime]

I consider 5W20 and 0W20 interchangeable, especially in my climate. I'd gladly stock up on clearance 5W20 and use it in my car that specs 0W20.

 

[901Memphis]

I'd buy it all at $2/quart

 

[Bud_One]

Originally Posted By: 901Memphis
I'd buy it all at $2/quart


+1

 

[Wolf359]

$2 a quart is a pretty decent price. At one point there was so much free after rebate oil that I stopped stocking up on it, but then it went away and those deals haven't been back in a long time. That was G-oil, nextgen, QSUD, etc. Even last year the Autozone oil was $1, now this year it's $2, but there were several stores that still had them at $4-$6 a quart. Even saw a few stores at $3 a quart. So if you have room, grab it and store another years worth, you never know if next year is going to be any good or not. Another case in point was Pepboys, thought I was going to stock up on their black friday Castrol 0w40, but then the stores I normally went to stopped stocking it so I got nothing whereas I got a couple jugs of it last year.

 

[dan_erickson]

I bet there is 40 quarts of 5w20 between the Pennzoil and Castrol

I was thinking that a quality synthetic 5w20 is not going to make a bit of difference vs 0w20 in the Honda

 

[69GTX]

You can't go wrong buying the 5w-20/30 weights as those are very popular and at the least, excellent trade/sale bait for the 0w-20 you prefer. 5w-20 would be perfectly fine from mid-March to mid-December in Indiana...that's 75% of the year.

 

[CT8]

The conundrum will be when some new synthetic super duper nano oil that is the official oil of NASCAR is praised by the postings on BITOG what will you do with all that out of fashion oil.

 

[The motor guy]

What do you guys do when you go to sell your vehicle and have no maintenance records cause you bought 150,000 miles worth of oil all at once? I have a folder an inch thick with maintenance records on my truck documenting everything up to a light bulb change.

 

[toneydoc]

Yes you should buy at least 1 oil change worth. That way your mind does not think you missed out on something.

If you don't you will go around worrying about it. Just go spend the 10 bucks and you will be happy about it

 

[Astro_Guy]

Originally Posted By: dan_erickson
Worth buying even though I don't exactly need it right now and none of it is 0w20?

As of the last time I checked, motor oil had not been banned and crude oil prices were dropping. There is no good reason to hoard oil under these circumstances.

 

[dan_erickson]

Originally Posted By: motor_oil_madman
What do you guys do when you go to sell your vehicle and have no maintenance records cause you bought 150,000 miles worth of oil all at once? I have a folder an inch thick with maintenance records on my truck documenting everything up to a light bulb change.


I take my cheap synthetic oil to the Honda dealer, let them change it and wash my car for $20

 

[sicko]

Sounds like you're well stocked for the Accord. I'd buy one OCI worth for the Pontiac and that's it. That should get you till next December and you can stock up then on the oils that are on sale.

 

[69GTX]

Originally Posted By: CT8
The conundrum will be when some new synthetic super duper nano oil that is the official oil of NASCAR is praised by the postings on BITOG what will you do with all that out of fashion oil.


The oil won't be out of fashion for my '99 and '02. Those cars were spec'd on API SJ/SL oils. They're gonna be happy with SN for years to come.

 

[bvance554]

I have a few stashes. Oil will never be one of them.

 

[KitaCam]

Originally Posted By: dan_erickson
Originally Posted By: motor_oil_madman
What do you guys do when you go to sell your vehicle and have no maintenance records cause you bought 150,000 miles worth of oil all at once? I have a folder an inch thick with maintenance records on my truck documenting everything up to a light bulb change.


I take my cheap synthetic oil to the Honda dealer, let them change it and wash my car for $20


Same here....I've 4 years of 2x/yr oil changes @ $2/qt...I'm good.

 

[Doog]

Originally Posted By: Bud_One
Originally Posted By: 901Memphis
I'd buy it all at $2/quart


+1

+3

But I have a hard fast rule...never more than 300 quarts

When PP first came out it was on promo for $1.75/qt I bought 250 quarts. You can't believe how quickly we used it all.