At this point, buy it at O'Reilly's and get a free Microgard Select for a few dollars more... that is, until their prices increase.
Valvoline Restore and Protect
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Yes, that currently might be the best deal if it run out at Walmart.
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0w20 still showing $30, looks like 5w30 is the first to feel the pinch.
It's the most popular.
Weird, 5w30 was up to 39 for me until today when I checked and it's back down to $30. But I already have enough oil (including my most recent oil change) to be good for at least 10-12 months. Debating jumping on this or not...
Edit: went ahead and bought a jug with subscribe and save at my next delivery. Lock in the price but also gives me a few weeks if I choose to cancel.
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I do have to admit, it would be rather funny if this all came to pass without any disruption outside of a bit a panic buying over the next 1-2 weeks.
HPL has already increased prices. AMSOIL now has a per quart surcharge due to the base oil price increase that will hopefully go away when this is all resolved.
Patman
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That doesn’t seem likely at all. This is going to be bad, really bad
FWW Valvoline Restore and Protect is still at the same price on their direct site. Granted, the 5qt was always higher there.
$39.99 without the platinum discount. Still showing all grades in stock, even in the 20qt boxes.
$39.99 without the platinum discount. Still showing all grades in stock, even in the 20qt boxes.
Other major brand oils are roughly $2.00 cheaper at WM than Valvoline Restore and Protect. Averaged over a 4K - 5K mile OCI is not much of a cost difference adder for an oil that cleans hard carbon deposits on pistons and oil ring packs.
Very Strange. Saw a bunch of talk about the Spike in Valvoline Restore and Protect with people using Amazon (vs Walmart) Pricing the other day. But Amazon has always been nearly that expensive for 5W30 the entire time I've seen it available from Amazon... (At least for me/my region) for the last two years (or as long as I've seen Valvoline Restore and Protect on Amazon... So at least 12-18+ months? Of the 27 months its been "National" in the US (Feb. 2024). With Limited Release before that in Fall/Winter 2023)?
I'd love the option of snagging $30 Valvoline Restore and Protect 5w30 directly from Amazon sometimes... But they've consistently been more expensive whenever I've looked.
Reminds me of my debating/temptation for just as long about buying Valvoline Restore and Protect in the 20 Quart Boxes... Ever since Valvoline first started offering it on their Website (as low was $113(maybe under $100?) with free shipping, sometimes with other Promotions too... Before it consistently shot up into the $176+ range from Valvoline. Which I never understood... Walmart eventually began offering it for the $113-119 range which is effectively the same cost as 4 Jugs so just another oddity why they (Valvoline, Walmart, others) can't seem to offer Bulk for cheaper
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Just picked up a 5qt of 5W-20 at Walmart this morning. They had 5 on the shelf. They even had 4 Honda brand and 6 Mobil 1 Honda filters. Honda, one size fits all and Yamaha too.
It's not like I'm rural. This is DC suburbs here.
It's not like I'm rural. This is DC suburbs here.
Down in Destin FL for our beach vacation. Decided to check out the local WM and bought the last jug of Valvoline Restore and Protect 5w30 they had on the shelf.
Had 4 or 5 bottles of 0w20 available. Then went down to the street to AZ and bought another with their filter bundle. I think that puts me above 10 jugs on hand now. (Service 5+ cars in the family)
At this Walmart the Pennzoil Ultra Platinum was cleared out completely, all grades. Same with Mobil 1 ESP 0w30 save for 1 jug which I decided on a whim to pick up. Figure I can barter that if need be
Another reason this wouldn’t work is that they are using the additive in the fuel cleaner now and also in an ATF.
Yeah, hopefully there's no shortage. But, it wouldn't surprise me if prices still go up and stay up.
Though I suspect, at the very least, there will be a slight shortage (likely due to everyone stocking up).
Also, kinda weird that some brands are selling their oils on discount right now. Wonder if it was just pre-planned sales they can't cancel or something.
I’m with you and agree it most likely is mostly breaking down deposits due to additives or at least they play a big role. The previous discussion about base oils stemmed from an assertion that Valvoline couldn’t develop additives and a claim that Valvoline Restore and Protect uses an off-the-shelf Afton additive package. I countered that Aramco could probably develop their own additives with which to top treat any blend.
Dr. Warholic: “base also oil selection matters too and it also matters in Restore & Protect…And then you have multiple additives in there to do different things, and that additive combination is what makes each oil unique…..5 years ago when we started Restore & Protect development….you look at different combinations of additives to do different things…”:
Here they talk about a “designer molecule” from a lab in India:
The second discussion regarding a specifically engineered molecule does lend itself to an additive, since G1-3 base oils are more of a “molecule soup”, even Group III (albeit much less so than I & II). With that said there are solubility benefits to the less uniform G1/2 base oils with a price to paid in volatility and oxidative resistance.
Could Aramco have engineered a hydro cracking process that results in a base oil comprised predominately of a specific isoparrafin molecule with the desired properties? Seems more likely they are talking about an additive, but I dont know.
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I guess that the bottom line is that we just don't know for sure, but from the weight of evidence out there, everything is pointing to a specific additive that they uncovered by accident. I highly doubt that they are using a special hydrocracking method to make an additive that they are putting in an ATF and fuel cleaner, but I'm not an oil and gas engineer.
How do we know the oil’s technology is shared with the fuel cleaner? I am not a hard line skeptic and have tried the fuel cleaner, but is it possible that the its branding is marketing designed to leverage the success of the oil while not actually sharing much chemistry in common with it? It’s a pretty different application than an oil and isn’t it made by “gold eagle” under license from Valvoline?
Employee of the company making the fuel additive confirmed it is the "proprietary additive" they are using that they receive from Valvoline and contains no PEA.
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