Two years ago, or so, Warren Oil Company merged with Coastal Petroleum to become the current Warren-Coastal.
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My point is if your gonna make a GL4/GL5 gear oil it better perform like one. Costal leaves a lot to be desired in that department.
Yes that fine but the original post was about their motor oil. You keep going on about the gear oil lol. I've seen Coastal at Autozone and was curious about it, but never really considered getting any. But if it were under a buck a quart AND was SM/GF4 rated, I'd grab some up with the quickness. Obviously I wouldn't run it past 3K but it certainly wouldn't make the car blow up. Now if it were SA oil in an SM bottle...whoa talk about lawsuit...
Several months ago I was at our local Autozone buying Exxon SuperFlow, and the guy told me that Aotozone oil was from Exxon, same oil as Exxon SuperFlow for less price.
Yeah already tried. Most of it is probably gone by now. Theirs about 3 Home Depots by me but honestly I doubt I'm gonna find any Pennzoil Platinum. I'd clear the store of it if I found it though!
Honestly I'm not sure if I'd believe the employee. He could indeed be right but I'd guess that it was Coastal. I forgot that Autozone sells Coastal exclusively.
Some might not believe me but my cousin (a mechanic) for some reason LOVES Coastal oil. He calls it gold. heh. He loves the physical color of the oil. He set up his neighbors Ford Escort on conventional Coastal oil and he was running the oil up to 10K miles with the oil still looking good (physically). I've never had an oil stay the same color past 3000 miles. The owner of the Escort said the car ran beautifully. He has no reason to lie to me.
I think the reason I asked is because my girlfriend only drives 3000 miles in a 6 month interval and I feel I'm wasting money putting premium synthetic oil in her car unless she goes extended intervals (miles vs. time) so I'm looking for a good oil that is synthetic for a lower price.
BTW may I ask what this new SM rating is about? Haven't been around here for a while.
Just warning, that don't consider their gear oil even if their motor oil runs great for you. I am not disputing that. Just a warning.quote:
Originally posted by bighead:
Yes that fine but the original post was about their motor oil. You keep going on about the gear oil lol. I've seen Coastal at Autozone and was curious about it, but never really considered getting any. But if it were under a buck a quart AND was SM/GF4 rated, I'd grab some up with the quickness. Obviously I wouldn't run it past 3K but it certainly wouldn't make the car blow up. Now if it were SA oil in an SM bottle...whoa talk about lawsuit...
Sorry to clarify to last post I meant as a warning do not assume their gear oil is top notch. It in fact is not and since this is thread involving oil & Costal I though it had precedent.
Thermo, I know you were trying to warn us... I just had to give you a hard time about it
You also caught me in quite a jumble this morning...obviously my fingers were ahead of my brain.
Whoa - let's backup the wild claims truck just a New York minute, please. If your cousin is using ANY conventional oil to 10K miles in someone's car, he's not that car owner's friend. A conventional oil that appears the same after 10K miles use in an internal combustion engine as it did when fresh out of the bottle has a weak or non-existant detergent/dispersant additive pack - and you can quote me on that to your cousin. Shades of mislabled SA whetstone and overhead fan oil!
I'll keep that in mind! Thank ya sir.
Actually I checked up on that and he was using it 5000 miles and then progressively going up. The last time I had talked to him the guy had it in their up to 7K miles I believe and then I guess the guy wanted to try 10k. Like I said, the guy thought the car ran great. I wouldn't run conventional for that long but this is what they were telling me.
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