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I do shake my inventory and each quart before it goes in my engines.
Walmart oil prices - Ah!
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Well, pretty much everything is delivered by oil products, right?What other supply chain issues will we see in the near future and prices on everything increase 30%….. ?
I was at a hospital during Covid and there was a Gatorade shortage from manufacturer and patients needed to drink something else.
Curious, what's your number or process? Mine is 5K; can be less if the vehicle is nit used much in about 1.5 years. Our 2006 Acura TSX with 245K on the clock does not go through a drop between services. So far so good...
World affairs causing a disruption in the materials to make motor oil ... and other things. Don't expect prices to come down anytime soon, probably will keep creeping up instead.
CleanSump
Site Donor 2026
Yes. And the the factory workers staying at home caused reduced production and a well known lack of transportation. You can't buy what isn't manufactured or trucked out.
f355spider
$50 Site Donor 2026
I have purchased oil a number of times on eBay over the past 18 months. (Though most of my oil purchases are directly from Walmart.com or Amazon.com and continue to be)
1) The eBay sellers are always slow to ship...one to three weeks before shipment, so be patient or plan ahead.
2) About 1/3 of the time, they will randomly cancel your order and say it was by your request.
3) 2/3 of the time they come through, and 80% of the time it drop ships from Walmart, the other 20% is from Rock Auto or some other online retailer. Only once did I receive oil directly from the seller. I have never received counterfeit, or used oil, as some suggest is a risk.
I was not aware of triangulation schemes until it was brought up by users on this forum to me about a year ago (user @tired ?). As a long time, buyer and seller on eBay (25 years), I now suspect at least (from observation and my own buying patterns) 5% of all sales on eBay are from some form of this triangulation fraud. I have no other explanation for such below market prices on products that are drop shipped by national retailers. So, triangulation fraud seems a plausible explanation, buy I cannot prove or confirm it.
This is not unique to motor oil, you can scan around on eBay and see unusually low prices on tools, household goods, health & beauty aids, pretty much anything that can be purchased online and delivered by a third party retailer. I remember hearing on the news 15 years ago, eBay was where physical retail theft items were fenced...seems criminals found a way to not even have to leave their house or handle the goods.
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Many of the makers of the commercial rolls had to shut down production due to no demand.
You could buy them at the Tienda in single, giant rolls, if desperate. When the world goes South find people who grew up in the third world, they will have figured it out for you already.
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I wonder if the low Castrol Edge pricing is going to increase very soon too, or if Castrol is pushing for more market share this way.
If their pricing stays in the 20 dollar range then I suspect their popularity will rise decently here.
If their pricing stays in the 20 dollar range then I suspect their popularity will rise decently here.
Patman
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The ones I feel are doing it too often are the ones sticking with 3-4k, they are the ones who can very likely do 5-6k without any problems. Or the ones who say that they do it every 6 months regardless of the miles driven (but then it ends up being 2000 miles)
33yr old car, 21yrs of ownership.
Never dropped a single drip.
Never required a single top-up.
Legendary GA16DE.
Just got back from a 1000km trip, the Mobil 1 5W-30 HM looks as clean as it did two months ago when I changed it.75-80mph all day 600+kms per 50L tank
When I do reluctantly give her up, I'll be hunting for a TSX 6-spd manual
.Love them.
