OMG!! VW Oil Prices!

[BBDartCA]

Be thankful you modern VW TDI owners live in the US. And you think Castrol SLX at 12 bucks a liter at your local VW Audi dealer is steep? Look at the below ... SLX for 56 bucks a liter! At current exchange rates and taxes. This is in Austria.

The BP house band 507.00 is only a few Euros cheaper.

 

[pidster]

56 bucks a LITER!?!?!? Whats that a $300 oil change? Woooow, Canadian prices don't seem like nearly as much of a gouge now.

 

[Quattro Pete]

All quality synthetic oils cost about this much in Europe, not just the VW oils.

 

[SLCraig]

That would be enough to make me find a job I could walk to, and only use my car when I had to, or to see family.

 

[2oldtommy]

OMG! Does that include the value added Tax ?? No wonder that 2 year OCI's are common in Europe. FWIW--Oldtommy

 

[crw]

Originally Posted By: SLCraig
That would be enough to make me find a job I could walk to, and only use my car when I had to, or to see family.


That would be enough to make me leave europe, anyway.

 

[nthach]

how much would it exchange to in USD then?

 

[ffracer]

When I was in France, I went into an Autobacs store and I was shocked at how expensive motor oil was.

Mobil 1 and Castrol RS - similar formula, weights, nothing odd was something like 50 Euro for 4 liters. Roughly $80 USD.

Same amount here even with 8% tax is $26 for Mobil 1.

Total/elf excellium and more exotic flavors of Mobil 1 were similar or a little more. $85-95 .

Even backing out the VAT - it seemed to be really high. Must be a tax on motor oil on top of VAT.

 

[BigJohn]

That is crazy.... Is it possible for Europeans to do a web purchase and have it shipped from the US?

Why is it so expensive??? Do government taxes push it up that high?

 

[Whimsey]

Originally Posted By: BigJohn
That is crazy.... Is it possible for Europeans to do a web purchase and have it shipped from the US?

Why is it so expensive??? Do government taxes push it up that high?


Shipping and Euro taxes would jack the US price up. Maybe not as high as their local prices.

Crude oil so far has been priced in US$ and is pretty much the same all over, in free markets. The difference is the cost to refine the oil and taxes. In the US the local, state & fed taxes are more $$ than the oil company makes on a gallon of gas. Start adding these taxes to motor oil will raise the price even more.

Whimsey

 

[BBDartCA]

Maybe to finance a euro vacation, take a couple suitcase of oil over and sell it on Craiglist.

 

[Steve S]

We will be there soon.

 

[Big_Kat]

Originally Posted By: Steve S
We will be there soon.


wow... i hope not.....

 

[ET16]

I saw similar prices in Switzerland last year; you can still find run-of-the-mill 10-40, 15-40 oil for a reasonable price, though.

 

[OpelFever]

Wow! Those are pretty sick prices even from a european point of view. That same flavor of Castrol cost 19.90€ at the local gas station, you could probably get it cheaper from an autoparts-shop.

For comparison Mobil 1 ESP 5w-30 costs 19.80€/litre including labour at the quick lube I work at. The same oil at the stealerships is around the 22-23€ mark.

Despite the steep prices Im surprised at the amount of people who distrust extended drains and come in for an oil change at 10-20k kilometers (6200-12400 miles).

 

[Scienceman]

Gosh, I guess you need to consider the cost of oil before you buy!

 

[JimFitzpatrick]

FWIW I bought several lires of Mobil 1 ESP 5W-30 oil (which is approved for BMW diesels---"LL-04" standard) at Pep Boys for about $7/litre.I'm almost certain that it's also approved for VW diesels but,if you're interested,you should check it out first.

 

[JimFitzpatrick]

Originally Posted By: OpelFever
For comparison Mobil 1 ESP 5w-30 costs 19.80€/litre including labour at the quick lube I work at. The same oil at the stealerships is around the 22-23€ mark.


WOW!!! A few months ago I bought that *very* same oil here in the US for about $7/litre...which is something like 6 Euros/litre.

 

[unDummy]

At those prices, get a bypass filter and never change the oil.
Socialism's taxes and gov't printing paper money never helps.

 

[zpa]

Some prices at a popular car parts store:

M1 0w-40 4L 42.90eur = 10.73eur/L = $14.80/L
Edge 0w-40 4L 49.90eur = 12.48eur/L = $16.50/L
GM 5w-30 Dexos2 5L 24.90eur = 4.98eur/L = $6.60/L

A qt is something like 0.95L so not a big difference. I wonder why the GM product is so much cheaper?