Seems pointless to me. Nothing on the label explains why it's worth paying extra compared to the regular O'Reilly synthetic. Price-wise it's not a good value when whatever name brand oil is on sale is actually cheaper. Thoughts?
That is what I am thinking as well, just their "premium" synthetic oil....
Wording difference on the new syntec says "premium" full synthetic base stocks... Where the other one says "quality" full synthetic base stocks... I am wondering if this Syntec is the O Reilly's version of Mobil 1 EP??...
So Castrol used to have Syntec (same spelling and all) as a trademark.But it shows up as "dead" for Castrol on the US Patent and Trademark Office site(at least from what I leafed through, I could have missed some other record).
Edit, found a "live" record for Syntec as a Castrol trademark (it didn't show Castol in one of the table fields as the others did for whatever reason, had to click through the actual record)
(record)
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn74495684&docId=CAR20200917174637 (recent filing for change of address)
***the unedited text below was premised on Castrol not retaining a Syntec trademark, which appears to be in error:
Castrol. is it still Omni?
So do we think Castrol is now making an oil for O'Reilly, or just licensing the Syntec brand name?
Here we go. The O'reilly website has the term "BP Lubricants" associated with the Syntec product. Not anywhere on the actual webage that is displayed (unless ctrl F missed it)
But in the the web address itself (missed this last night when looking):
Also, if you "View page source" to see the actual html, it lists it in the meta data, specifically:
for "brand" the meta data has: >
this use of the name BP Lubricants for OReilly's Syntec is also what will appear in search engines when searching the right search phrase
googling "bp" "motor oil" will results in google spitting out the title (one page 2 for me):
BP Lubricants Syntec Motor Oil 5W-20 5 Quart SYN5205QT ...
which links to the O'reilly product
search also returns similar results for other viscosities (note, google search results are user dependent, you may see the result further down/ on a different page). The same title convention is also returned for an "image" search of the "bp" "motor oil"
Note: to be clear, not saying definitively bp specifically blends or bottles the product, Omni or someone may have it under contract with BP licensing, but this further shows BP is involved
for comparison, for the normal just O'Reilly oil (not the Syntec), the meta data is
082 at the end is BP lubricants ID.As far as I can tell, the 0W-20 d1G2 Lic# D120BJBC082 doesn't show as a Castrol number. I only checked the 0W-20.
We actually just got the product shipped to our DC about a week ago. We will probably be getting our first shipment of it Thursday (oil day). As far as I can tell the main difference is that its API SP, which is like the newest rating from the manufacturer, hence the "for todays modern engines".Seems pointless to me. Nothing on the label explains why it's worth paying extra compared to the regular O'Reilly synthetic. Price-wise it's not a good value when whatever name brand oil is on sale is actually cheaper. Thoughts?
Just found a news story on fuel and lubes that bp has partnered with Calumet to have them blend and bottle their oils at Shreveport Louisiana.... It will be officially announced in December...
Omni Speciality packaging located in Shreveport Louisiana will be responsible for blending this oil for O Reilly's it appears. Thus why the oil containers are exactly the same as the other ones.
So this is like you have found... A technically bp oil product...
Good find. I was wondering how they could use the Syntec brand name even though it hasn’t been called that for some time now.