Walmart oil prices

[Gokhan]

FWIW, prices at local Walmart.

Synthetic oil has become really cheap in comparison to conventional oil.

King of the Mobil 1 bunch:

 

[Donald]

Well the Calif price for T6 is identical to the NY price I see.

 

[THORROMIG]

My Walmart tonite I noticed Valvoline conventional is 40 cents more than the Max Life Synthetic Blend. Both 5-30 flavors!

 

[Danno]

I am jealous. In Canada M1 is $46 per jug at Walmart.

 

[BHopkins]

This has my observation too. Being that I use only synthetic, it has been a long time since I have priced dino. But, last August I helped my son move for a new job. It was my assignment to drive his car to their new town. So, being my nature I checked the oil and found it was too low to register on the dipstick. Ahhh! So off to Walmart for oil

My plan was to save money and just buy dino, since he was surely going to need a full oil & filter job after the move. I was shocked, however, when I started pricing it and found that a 5qt. jug of dino was only $2-$4 less than a 5qt. jug of full synthetic.

I'm always surprised when I hear people talk about putting dino in their car because it just isn't worth the cost for synthetic since they don't do extended oil changes. Everyone has their own budget, but for me I'm thinking it's not that much cheaper.

 

[FutureDoc]

Originally Posted By: thorromig
My Walmart tonite I noticed Valvoline conventional is 40 cents more than the Max Life Synthetic Blend. Both 5-30 flavors!


I noticed a week or two ago that the 5qt ML jug was 30 cents cheaper than the white bottle jug... but the single quarts had the white bottle as a few dimes less. Checked the bar-codes too, real price swap.

 

[bvance554]

Has 'synthetic' became cheaper? Or has 'conventional' closed the gap on quality and 'synthetic' no longer receives the premium price that it did at one time?

 

[Garak]

Originally Posted By: Danno
I am jealous. In Canada M1 is $46 per jug at Walmart.

I'm loathe to advertise for Walmart, but they dropped it down by $10 as a semi-permanent rollback.

 

[crazyoildude]

wow $46.00 for mobil 1 in canada? Thats nuts!!
Even at $25.00 here i would not buy it!

 

[Gokhan]

Sales tax is not included in the price here (9.00% in my locality) and one US dollar is currently 1.09554 Canadian dollars.

So, $36 in Canada is more like $30 + tax (as opposed to $25 + tax) here -- not that bad. Yes, US is cheaper than most other places in the world for most commercial things.

 

[daves87rs]

Yep....it really is not that different now....

 

[901Memphis]

I'll have to check my local store, the prices were higher for m1 last i checked.

 

[Garak]

$36 in Canada would be what I'd consider a sensible, everyday price, where they should have it. Now, they need to drop conventional down a bit, too. You know Walmart up here has plenty of room to move when they can sell Supertech for $6 a gallon on special even up here, and when Delvac 1 at the distributor goes for half the price of Mobil 1 Turbo Diesel Truck at Walmart.

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: bvance554
Has 'synthetic' became cheaper? Or has 'conventional' closed the gap on quality and 'synthetic' no longer receives the premium price that it did at one time?


The dino today is very close to synthetic of yesteryear. For this kind of pricing there's no reason not to do extended drain and top off with synthetic if you are out of warranty.

 

[Andy636]

Originally Posted By: Danno
I am jealous. In Canada M1 is $46 per jug at Walmart.


You think that is bad??? I'm jealous even at Canada...LOL. Try 69$ for a 5L jug

 

[BISCUT]

Originally Posted By: Gokhan
Sales tax is not included in the price here (9.00% in my locality) and one US dollar is currently 1.09554 Canadian dollars.

So, $36 in Canada is more like $30 + tax (as opposed to $25 + tax) here -- not that bad. Yes, US is cheaper than most other places in the world for most commercial things.

9% sales tax....and I complain about 7.75 and 8.25%!! Ahhh the benefits of progressive states like yours and mine!

 

[Gokhan]

Originally Posted By: BISCUT
Originally Posted By: Gokhan
Sales tax is not included in the price here (9.00% in my locality) and one US dollar is currently 1.09554 Canadian dollars.

So, $36 in Canada is more like $30 + tax (as opposed to $25 + tax) here -- not that bad. Yes, US is cheaper than most other places in the world for most commercial things.

9% sales tax....and I complain about 7.75 and 8.25%!! Ahhh the benefits of progressive states like yours and mine!

Yes, it hurts to pay the sales tax. However, at least part of the extra sales tax is going for a good cause, like the recent LA County Measure R 30-year 0.5% sales tax for building rail transit and keeping the transit fares low (currently the lowest in US).

I also forgot about the liter - quart conversion. Accounting for that, Canadian price for the M1 is coming to $28.48 vs. the $25.17 for the US price -- almost the same. The difference is probably partly the cost of the customs tax and transportation.

 

[crazyoildude]

being in the engine rebuilding business 20 plus years and someone who attends most of the seminars within 60 miles or so from my shop i have never seen an engine breakdown due to using dino verses synthetic.. And i also never saw anything to show one oil is better than another.

 

[crazyoildude]

hmmmmmmm i see it says approved for "most" MB,BMW,VW,audi and Porsche
Why not all?

 

[Garak]

I don't think it's possible to formulate an oil that meets all MB, BMW, VW/Audi, and Porsche specifications since some of them are mutually exclusive.