Originally Posted By: westcoaster
If you love your car, ride, whatever you want to call it, five bucks is nothing. Is PP good.....Yup. Is Ultra better.....Yup. They will both run fine on pretty much whatever, but I have a love factor, so the five dollars is mute.
I think you mean moot. "Five dollars is moot."
Originally Posted By: westcoaster
I even gave my vehicles some SSO for a while, however, I can't stand paying the shipping charges. So, I guess even love has a bit of a price.
Now wait a minute...you just said that if you love your car, feed it only nothing but the best. But then you contradict yourself and say you don't like paying shipping charges, so you won't use "the best", but maybe the "second best". So "second best" (Pennzoil Ultra) is good enough for you, but if someone else is using "third best" (Pennzoil Platinum?), that's unacceptable?
You're doing a cost/benefit analysis just like everyone else is. I can't stand the viewpoint that if you don't pay the most you can possibly pay for something, you must not "love" your car. I think the argument that paying more for something just because it's "cheap insurance" is the lazy man's approach to not doing research and understanding what is beneficial to pay for, and where you're not getting a return on your investment.
If you wanted to take it to the extreme, you'd run the most expensive oil you can find in your car and change it every time you drive. Yep, every time. The first time you crank the motor, you've got "used oil" in the sump. So why not change it? You love your car right? Nothing but the best, baby.