I dont want to sound harsh but that is fundamentally wrong and I'm surprised coming from someone who has been on bitog 7 years.
0w is the winter rating.
0w-8 has gone mainstream. M1 AFE 0w-8.
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0w is the winter rating.
This question has never been asked before
I've got complete faith in it;s ability to protect. It's a 12 year old car with 178k on the clock and it still runs great and gets great gas milage. I was posting as a skeptic to this particular groups reasoning, as in "tell me something bad about it if you can".
He phrased it by saying others have, not that he believes it.
No doubt due to that 0 weight synthetic.
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I can't see WalMart dedicating any sort of shelf space to a product that isn't going to sell. Retail businesses live and die by shelf space efficiency. My local WalMart cleared out all of their 0W-16 because it didn't move. It was the dust collector of the store and 0W-8 won't be any different.
Maybe in 5 years it might become a retail darling. Today... NO.
Maybe in 5 years it might become a retail darling. Today... NO.
But if you look at their product line for advaced fuel economy, its not there along with othersPdsDetailsPage
Keep your engine running at peak efficiency while improving fuel economy. Engineered for today's advanced and hybrid engines, Mobil 1 Advanced Fuel Economy full-synthetic motor oil 0W-8 helps to improve fuel economy and extend engine life for vehicles of all ageswww.mobil.com
Yeah i noticed that too. Same situation the 20k quaker state had. But i copy and pasted the item name in Walmart into google and that was the first result to pop up.
That is strange, most people follow owner manual and many cars have 0w-16.
Most people don't realise their car comes with an owner's manual, and have zero cares about what oil the dealership or lube shop puts in, as long as they put something in. 0W-08, 20W-60, reheated Crisco, doesn't matter.
There was a small controversy over Motorcraft 5w20 being cheaper in Walmart than in Ford dealers at the turn of the millenium.Mobil1 0w-8 is not even on mobil website, but already in walmart
Mobil could be compelling them with shelf space agreements. They could even be in cahoots with Toyota, eg, show the masses that 0w8 "is a thing" that's readily available.
The people that have some other place change their oil will not go to wallmart to buy oil.
The ones that do buy oil at walmart for DIY usually follow owner manual….
Anything below 2.9 hths in a 0w20 would make me twitch like an old man in a electric scooter driving in to a air biscuit/crop dusting in an aisle of a box store. Before long, people will be topping of with 3 in 1 general purpose oil
Well they are still toyota's oil oem provider aren't they. Not a bad suggestion.
Deep down I'm sure it's probably fine for your Econo box vehicles. If you're going to start tuning and putting Parts on it then I don't think it would hold up especially a forced induction or direct injection as it would dilute the oil
The only real purpose of 0w-8 is to get people to stop complaining about 0w-20 being too thin.
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