Originally Posted By: BlueOvalFitter
My son buys 10W-40 VML syn-blend from WM for $16.27 in the 5 qt. container. I sent him (2) coupons for $5 off each 5qt. container, back in November. That made the deal even sweeter.
Haha, you know something... IDK why I linked the VML 10w-40 to Amazon, lol, because in that case, Walmart does sell it for much cheaper. Oh well, I must've been a little tired at the time of the posting haha. Yah, my dad recently bought it at Walmart for about 16 bucks (
VML 10w-40 High Mileage Semi-Syn [Walmart]). He didn't have/use any coupons though...
(Warning, slightly unrelated and long read ahead): On a side note, unfortunately, the vehicle he'd put it in [that had a bad engine to begin with] recently just seized up. It was a 1999 Ford Escort... We found out by the mechanic that those 2.0L (not the zetec one, the standard one) from that generation had weak valve heads --- which lead to loss of compression, etc., and thus causing the engine to literally make cylinders 2 and 4 stop moving altogether. What's even funnier (not) is that when he bought the car (had around 100k miles), unsurprisingly, the previous owner had not tuned it as it should have been, and once my dad hit 150k the timing belt/chain (can't remember which it is) went bad - he went to start it up and 'snap crackle pop' (it shattered the pistons). The replacement engine (yah, what a great idea, replace an engine of a '99 Escort) would have been fine, but the goof-ball guys that put it in messed it up, and it, too blew. So the third engine (I know what your thinking here, lol), the most recent one, lasted for a good 80k miles until the weak heads killed
it. All in all, that Escort did quite well though, despite a slippery transmission past 230k. The car was finally put to rest with like 260k miles on it, and throughout its whole life made 34mpg highway.
A few days ago my dad and I went out and bought a 1998 Buick LeSabre (about 98k miles on it) for a pretty good deal under KBB. I think my dad will be happy with this car. The 3.8L V6 (3800 series II) is a solid engine as far as I've heard. And for such a big car to get 30mpg highway
... Ha, well, is pretty awesome. Also, when we bought it, the dealer had just gotten it in as a trade in so they'd not had time to even change the oil or anything yet (but that made it cheaper for us to buy haha), so I today I went to Walmart and bought something that I'd never have bought before I was a BITOGer - a 5 quart jug of Super Tech HM 5w-30. I thought, hey, for under 15 bucks, why not. I bought some STP blue bottle additive (for peace of mind, haha) and a Purolator filter, too.