Originally Posted By: kschachn
LMAO, prove this. Come on, I dare you.
Originally Posted By: boxcartommie22
all lubes that wal mart carry and sell are made for wal mart specs are dumb down so wal mart can sell them at their price....why would anybody want to purchase any lubes from wal mart to save money. your engines cost 5-7000 bucks to fix it just never made any sense to me why people do that!! of course you will find people on this site will argue that point..for instance saw castrol yesterday has wall mart on the back of the bottle..
And old HS friend of mine was convinced of all sorts of things. One was that almost anything made in Japan must be superior. He wanted to get a Yakima brand roof rack for his car since he thought it sounded Japanese and thought it was made in Japan and pronounced it "YA-KEE-MA" like it was a Japanese name and not "YA-KUH-MUH" like the area of Washington state.
However, he was also convinced that the biggest marketed (or most expensive) products were the best and that those with little marketing must be dumbed down. He was big on using Castrol GTX and later synthetic oils. While he would use Chevron and 76 gas, he was convinced that Chevron or 76 motor oils must have been demonstrably inferior to Castrol, Pennzoil, or Valvoline simply based on price and that they didn't heavily market them. Granted, at the time I did get the warm and fuzzies from using a well known brand, but back then it was the difference between spending $1 a quart and 80 cents a quart.
As for Walmart having the pull to get a specific label for a well-known brand, I don't consider that terribly difficult to understand. They're certainly not likely to get a "dumbed down" product in the bottle. The manufacturer has specs to meet, API certs, and they're not going to change that just for one large retailer.
Now I don't doubt that maybe private-label products like motor oils might use one formula that gets shared along with the test results for API certs.
However, there are people who have done analyses of Walmart oils both used and virgin, and they are most definitely not substandard. If you use it regularly, I doubt that engines start falling apart simply on that basis.
LMAO, prove this. Come on, I dare you.
Originally Posted By: boxcartommie22
all lubes that wal mart carry and sell are made for wal mart specs are dumb down so wal mart can sell them at their price....why would anybody want to purchase any lubes from wal mart to save money. your engines cost 5-7000 bucks to fix it just never made any sense to me why people do that!! of course you will find people on this site will argue that point..for instance saw castrol yesterday has wall mart on the back of the bottle..
And old HS friend of mine was convinced of all sorts of things. One was that almost anything made in Japan must be superior. He wanted to get a Yakima brand roof rack for his car since he thought it sounded Japanese and thought it was made in Japan and pronounced it "YA-KEE-MA" like it was a Japanese name and not "YA-KUH-MUH" like the area of Washington state.
However, he was also convinced that the biggest marketed (or most expensive) products were the best and that those with little marketing must be dumbed down. He was big on using Castrol GTX and later synthetic oils. While he would use Chevron and 76 gas, he was convinced that Chevron or 76 motor oils must have been demonstrably inferior to Castrol, Pennzoil, or Valvoline simply based on price and that they didn't heavily market them. Granted, at the time I did get the warm and fuzzies from using a well known brand, but back then it was the difference between spending $1 a quart and 80 cents a quart.
As for Walmart having the pull to get a specific label for a well-known brand, I don't consider that terribly difficult to understand. They're certainly not likely to get a "dumbed down" product in the bottle. The manufacturer has specs to meet, API certs, and they're not going to change that just for one large retailer.
Now I don't doubt that maybe private-label products like motor oils might use one formula that gets shared along with the test results for API certs.
However, there are people who have done analyses of Walmart oils both used and virgin, and they are most definitely not substandard. If you use it regularly, I doubt that engines start falling apart simply on that basis.
