Recent content by BigOil

"Please try to discuss the actual oil they use at these shops. Anyone whos in the oil business or gotten to the bottom of this nagging question please speak up." I am in the oil business. Work for a big manufacturer. Quick lubes services vary based on the specific shop Owner and Manager. For...

Techron is the original and still claims "unbeaten" I recall (a big claim actually) FSC. Chevron sells other PEA technology to other OEMs and bottlers. Hint - look at the shape of GM FSC at dealer, not Techron probably but a Chevron bottle with good technology... Shell sells Vektron (hence V...

Chevron Chemical and Shell(SOPUS) make the PEA additives that are sold to many other brands. Save money and buy Chevron or Shell/Pennzoil/Quaker

"Why do you want to use Redline Oil in you engine ?" or any boutique oil or AMA (after market additive)--- other than to feel like one "does more" for the car... Obviously, folks have been doing this for ages, and people like Lucas get rich off it... I think the average "car nut" gives far far...

No one really can "know" if is an overblend or not...formulas and addpacks (especially the DI pack) are trade secrets. Since any good (major brand) GF4 oil can go 5000, and XOM is really smart, an educated guess would be it's nuffin' special just a good quality GF4....

Actually I would say buy any ***major branded*** oil. I know of many stories of unscrupulous distributors selling API SF('intended' for export)40WT as GF4 5-w30, or "GF4" oils underadditized by blenders. Major brands have too much at risk to do this. There is NO, repeat NO effective policing of...

Really?.."I believe much of todays exploration is funded by the US taxpayers..." The company I work for puts virtually all net income back into capital investments. It's a no-win business for opinion though, the industry drove huge costs out of barrel of finished oil...these savings reduced...

"Kendall's base oil is no longer coming from Bradford? If so, I'm dissapointed..." Base oil is essentially a chemical specification commodity that can be big-time property modified by additives. The technology (in the Western developed world) is so advanced in refining (versus in the days of...

"AAP house brand oil was bottled by Havoline" This is *not* true, and has not been true since at least before the merger into CVX of this brand. No way CVX would risk the brand association for the meager profits of private lablel biz methinks. AAP used, last I heard, Coastal/Warren Unilube in...

"Completely different formulas, however..." Why would they be **completely** different??? More than likely "just different enough to say they are different..." This tactic would $ave Shell money(mgf. cost/complexity) and conusmers simply cannot tell any material/repeatable differences anyway...

"They apparently can get the 10W-30 cheaper." Yes it is typically a few pennies cheaper in cost anyway as it has less VI improver in it...

"They also missed the fact that Pennzoil no longer gets its 'zoil from the Penn state, and Quaker State no longer is in the Quaker State, and hasn't been for some time." Actually, ahem, there is NO Pennzoil & NO QS...these are Shell Oil *brands* for products made in Shell plants (or contracted...

Pennzoil & Quaker are Shell Oil products...

LOL on Pennzoil and alleged "wax"...these are *brands* of "SOPUS" SHELL OIL products U.S. Nothing to at all to do with these **long long gone** companies...and even longer dead refining technology I'd **guess** they are very smallish tweaks of Formula Shell from the same plants (probably not a...

Agree: "there are no bad motor oils among major brands" They have zero long-run economic motivation not to try 110% to sell an on-spec product. Sort of agree: "there are no bad motor oils among...established major retailer house brands" As these oils are not always made by "deep-pocket" major...