Tell me how good 'Royal Purple' oil is

[SteveSRT8]

Originally Posted By: Garak
Originally Posted By: zerosoma
I grabbed 3 quarts from AAP (clearance) for $2.95/qt. It's the SL formulation.


If I could get it at $2.95/qt, I'd fill up my shed.

Me three. My principal issue with it is cost.

 

[Garak]

Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8
Me three. My principal issue with it is cost.


Up here, at least at my prices, RP is an attractive option as far as synthetics go. More accurately, it isn't ridiculously more than the regular prices of M1 or PP. By the quart jug, I can actually get RP a tiny bit cheaper, assuming no rollbacks.

But, we do get PP and M1 rollbacks here, with little to none in the way of RP rollbacks. At $2.95 a quart, that's better than the usual price of conventional here.

Posters have to remember that RP is pretty much a niche product. They do now offer SN and SN/GF-5 oils, but I highly doubt they expect to usurp M1's place on the synthetic sales ladder.

Their attraction has always been having higher ZDDP street and race oils and their other drivetrain fluids. Yes, you can get M1 cheaper than RP. You can also get RP cheaper than you can get Joe Gibbs.

RP also has a huge catalog of industrial lubricants. Many of them are in much more convenient sizes than offered by Mobil, too. I cannot get a certain compressor lube for one of my businesses in anything less than a barrel from Imperial Oil. RP provides a competing product, at a competitive price per litre, in a 5 gallon pail.

 

[DragRace]

Good oil,too bad it costs so much to ship.
Same turnoff as amsoil.

 

[johnnydc]

Hey DragRace, Nice fleet of cars there. What oil do you use in your Mustang GT?

 

[DragRace]

Originally Posted By: johnnydc
Hey DragRace, Nice fleet of cars there. What oil do you use in your Mustang GT?


Redline 0w30

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

For the price I'm not sure it's worth the exclusivity when used in a daily driver. It's only motor oil like everything else out there.

 

[zerosoma]

Originally Posted By: Garak
Originally Posted By: zerosoma
I grabbed 3 quarts from AAP (clearance) for $2.95/qt. It's the SL formulation.


If I could get it at $2.95/qt, I'd fill up my shed.

What kills me is that I keep coming back to this clearance rack, buying a sack full of quarts each time...and the guys behind the counter, no matter who it is, is not the least bit surprised that the price on the register is less than half of the price on the rack.

It's almost invigorating to bring the oil up and say 'surprise me'...only to find out that the oil is like 99 cents. I would never think of buying it all at once, but I may buy their whole clearance rack out eventually because it is NOT MOVING!!

Other deals I cleaned them out on : Valvoline Synpower Max Life $2.95/qt, Valvoline Conv. Max Life $1.95/qt, Valvoline Next Gen $1.95/qt, Mobil Clean 5000 $1.95/qt, Peak Syn $1.95/qt...

 

[demarpaint]

Originally Posted By: Garak
Originally Posted By: zerosoma
I grabbed 3 quarts from AAP (clearance) for $2.95/qt. It's the SL formulation.


If I could get it at $2.95/qt, I'd fill up my shed.

Me too. At those prices I'd grab as much as I could. A few years ago I was able to grab Mobil 1 5w40 TDT for under $2/qt. I took 6 cases, that's all they had. I kept some even though I don't use a 40 grade oil, it came in very handy, and sold some at a nice profit to some boaters I know.

 

[Doug Hillary]

Hi,
zerosoma - This may interest you:

STARTS
Indiana-based Calumet Specialist Products LP is set to buy Royal Purple.
The acquisition will boost Calumet's lubricants portfolio by taking on privately-owned Royal Purple's high performance lubes business which covers a range of sectors from automotive, industrial, marine and motorsport.

The deal is worth around $335m and will be paid in cash and through borrowings. Based in Houston, Texas, Royal Purple is expected to become part of the Calumet family in July 2012 and is one of a number of acquisitions made by Calumet since January.

Calumet itself produces lubes, solvents, waxes and asphalt and has a market capitalisation of around $1.25bn.
ENDS

This will change the RP product base line up

 

[DragRace]

Originally Posted By: Doug Hillary
Hi,
zerosoma - This may interest you:

STARTS
Indiana-based Calumet Specialist Products LP is set to buy Royal Purple.
The acquisition will boost Calumet's lubricants portfolio by taking on privately-owned Royal Purple's high performance lubes business which covers a range of sectors from automotive, industrial, marine and motorsport.

The deal is worth around $335m and will be paid in cash and through borrowings. Based in Houston, Texas, Royal Purple is expected to become part of the Calumet family in July 2012 and is one of a number of acquisitions made by Calumet since January.

Calumet itself produces lubes, solvents, waxes and asphalt and has a market capitalisation of around $1.25bn.
ENDS

This will change the RP product base line up



A Royal Purple employee on another forum posted this when I asked them about this acquisition.

This is a good thing. This company was also a similar family run company that only went public several years ago, and has a great track record so far investing and improving the companies they have bought.
We have history with them already since we have been buying base oils from them for a while now.
They are very excited about this buy for a number of reasons and view us as their new flag ship company. They mentioned they were not going to change anything for quite sometime as they are wanting to watch and learn for a while.
We are growing quite fast and having Calumet cash investments available will likely make this an even more substantial and exciting period of growth.

 

[mechtech2]

$3 /qt is a very good price. Even I would have bought the RP.

I love how people say brand X is all they use, but it is better than all others. Well then, how do you know?
Same for those who have no empirical or vicarious experience .

Engines don't fail with RP, but niether do they on Supertech.

 

[Garak]

Originally Posted By: mechtech2
I love how people say brand X is all they use, but it is better than all others. Well then, how do you know?


That's it - we don't know. Brand loyalty is important to marketers, and the general public, for that matter. I'll admit it. I think RP is "cool." I'm a fan. I'm not under any illusions that it's the "best" oil on the market, though. As those who know me are aware, I rarely use it, though, and stick to conventional. It would be a front runner if I do switch to synthetic, though, simply due to pricing up in this country.

 

[DragRace]

Originally Posted By: Garak
Originally Posted By: mechtech2
I love how people say brand X is all they use, but it is better than all others. Well then, how do you know?


That's it - we don't know. Brand loyalty is important to marketers, and the general public, for that matter. I'll admit it. I think RP is "cool." I'm a fan. I'm not under any illusions that it's the "best" oil on the market, though. As those who know me are aware, I rarely use it, though, and stick to conventional. It would be a front runner if I do switch to synthetic, though, simply due to pricing up in this country.


It's so cool,I'm gonna run it on my next oil change in a few weeks.

 

[Garak]

If I could be lucky and get it for $2.95 a quart like some of us, I'd use it all the time. And that would be cool!

 

[ltslimjim]

Intersting a company that produces aspalt(?) buys an oil company/blender(?) known for it's sulfurized ester. Just thought that was ironic.