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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
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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
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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. 8000km oil change intervals for 21yrs.
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.
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IMO, it all depends on the vehicle, and some driving style factored in. Our 2017 Ram Cummins - very easy in oil, I’ll go 15,000 miles even with plenty of winter idling. Our 2010 Tiguan, 5-6k miles tops, TFSI is harder on oil and only holds 4.4l or so. 2026 Volvo XC40 - yet to be determined but Volvo recommends 10k miles/ 1 year service so I might go only 5k OCI, alternating servicing myself and bringing to dealer while under warranty.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)
What is that? A Datsun Sentra?33yr old car, 21yrs of ownership.
Never dropped a single drip.
Never required a single top-up.
Legendary GA16DE. 8000km oil change intervals for 21yrs.
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.View attachment 347594
It's a '93 Sentra XE.
The Datsun nameplate was ditched in 1985.
Paid $3K CAD for it in 2005
@CKN must love this, she's always going on about Kumbaya for the beater crew
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I was never the complete Wal-Mart hatter but lately I get the feeling they are a bit to quick to join the price hikes and artificially control stock availability which of course allow them to increase prices and I've been giving them less and less of my business lately.
Ground beef prices for example as we know is high everywhere but even higher at our local Illinois Wal-Mart’s and now they've jumped on the motor oil hikes with low or no stock. I've been getting my ground beef a Gordon's foods lately for a dollar per pound cheaper. I am not the paranoid mass buying hoarding type but remembered how finding TP and other essentials during COVID was and this I'm making an exception by buying enough for five years for the cars I maintain in our family plus two collector cars. I run either VR1 20W50 or Mobil 15W50 in my air cooled 911SC and do an oil change on it once a year but didn't buy either so I'm going to have to take it on the chin for next oil change because I get the feeling higher prices with availibilty shortages are here to stay for quite a while.
I stocked up on Quakers State full synthetic 5W30 (Run 5W30 in my wife's CX-5 even though it calls for 0W20 on the cap) at my local Menard's which is still at old prices of $20.97 per five quart jug for both full regular and high mileage synthetic though they are almost all cleared out around me. The problem with stock piling motor oil is almost everywhere I've researched, 5 years is the recommended max for unopened in a temperature regulated environment mine beign a basement.
I've been retired for seven years now and my wife just retired from her job as an educator at the hospital she worked at which involved driving her own vehicle to all the remote clinics for training. Yes she got mileage reimbursement but I was doing three plus oil changes in a year. Now that she's retired I can probably do one per year. My SUV the same.
Ground beef prices for example as we know is high everywhere but even higher at our local Illinois Wal-Mart’s and now they've jumped on the motor oil hikes with low or no stock. I've been getting my ground beef a Gordon's foods lately for a dollar per pound cheaper. I am not the paranoid mass buying hoarding type but remembered how finding TP and other essentials during COVID was and this I'm making an exception by buying enough for five years for the cars I maintain in our family plus two collector cars. I run either VR1 20W50 or Mobil 15W50 in my air cooled 911SC and do an oil change on it once a year but didn't buy either so I'm going to have to take it on the chin for next oil change because I get the feeling higher prices with availibilty shortages are here to stay for quite a while.
I stocked up on Quakers State full synthetic 5W30 (Run 5W30 in my wife's CX-5 even though it calls for 0W20 on the cap) at my local Menard's which is still at old prices of $20.97 per five quart jug for both full regular and high mileage synthetic though they are almost all cleared out around me. The problem with stock piling motor oil is almost everywhere I've researched, 5 years is the recommended max for unopened in a temperature regulated environment mine beign a basement.
I've been retired for seven years now and my wife just retired from her job as an educator at the hospital she worked at which involved driving her own vehicle to all the remote clinics for training. Yes she got mileage reimbursement but I was doing three plus oil changes in a year. Now that she's retired I can probably do one per year. My SUV the same.
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Walmart has long been the cheapest place to buy oil - with individual exceptions here and there of course - like Kirkland for example - but you need to be a member, and occasionally Mr. Bezos. We have been talking about Group 3 shortages for a couple months yet no price increase at walmart at all until now.
Now all of the sudden its walmarts fault?
Truly a stretch.
