Krooser
Well-Known Member
It's nice to come back home to some more reasonable prices at my local parts store ... $2.54 for an oil filter beats $8-12 at O'Reilly's.
$17+ for 5 quarts of semi-synthetic is $5 more than I paid last fall but still less than most other stores.
Before my yearly FL trip I bought Mobil 1 for $21 for a 5 qt jug on sale. But my 267k Buick drank three times the usual amount of oil during the month I was gone... it did not like that slippery oil.
After using three qts in 2,000 miles I cheaped out and put in a quart of 30W before I drive home... That one bottle virtually reduced usage back to 1 qt / 3000 miles.
Soon I will fill the pan on my new to me 318 that has an unknown history to me. I have 5 gallons of my favorite 30W CenPeCo race oil in stock but I will likely fill the pan with 10-30 dino oil from Federated.
I'm not an oil snob but I do have a few favorites.
$17+ for 5 quarts of semi-synthetic is $5 more than I paid last fall but still less than most other stores.
Before my yearly FL trip I bought Mobil 1 for $21 for a 5 qt jug on sale. But my 267k Buick drank three times the usual amount of oil during the month I was gone... it did not like that slippery oil.
After using three qts in 2,000 miles I cheaped out and put in a quart of 30W before I drive home... That one bottle virtually reduced usage back to 1 qt / 3000 miles.
Soon I will fill the pan on my new to me 318 that has an unknown history to me. I have 5 gallons of my favorite 30W CenPeCo race oil in stock but I will likely fill the pan with 10-30 dino oil from Federated.
I'm not an oil snob but I do have a few favorites.