Post your latest oil purchase or even filter.
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AutoMechanic
Site Donor 2024
Dang lol. Still old for oil though haha. I was going by the copyright on the label haha. These older bottles don’t say Valvoline anywhere on them so I wasn’t sure if it was still Valvoline then or not. Also didn’t realize we were only on SM/SL still then.
Point being: you should NOT have bought it. Cheap does NOT always equal good oil. These old myths and wives tales need to die
The bottle says Ashland, which was the parent company of Valvoline until they spun it off as it's own company in 2017. SN was introduced at the end of 2010, ILSAC GF-4 became obsolete at the end of 2011, so throughout 2011 several manufacturers would have still had SM/GF-4 products on the shelf, although for 10W40 there's no reason they couldn't have continued selling it as SL/SM to this day since it's not an ILSAC grade.
AutoMechanic
Site Donor 2024
Well at least I can use it. But I’ll probably end up collecting it. I collect old stuff. I’ll use Napa oil since it’s formulated by Valvoline. My truck or the Beetle the Jeep or the van they will all like it if I decide to use it.
I’d add it to your collection honestly.
CleanSump
Site Donor 2022
If it were cheap enough, I would use it in my 20+y/o lawnmower that is either leaking or burning oil.
I don't see any problem in using it, I used a quart of Valvoline Premium Conventional 5W-30 from 2007 that we found buried in some stuff cleaning out the garage last year to top up my mom's 08 Odyssey during the last oil change .
I noticed at my Walmart they now have those stupid K&N air filters and the cleaner for them, so they must've cleared several lower selling oil filters to make room for the worthless K&N air filters.
Zee09
$200 Site Donor 2023
Always good for a BITOG fist fight... 
. Have hard enough time reading the dipstick with regular oil . Have to get one of these . 
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OVERKILL
$100 Site Donor 2021
When your oil label is produced in Word 2000 and J300 doesn't matter.
Probably Word 97 that came bundled with Works and Frontpage on a 1999 Packard Bell with a Celeron 300.
OVERKILL
$100 Site Donor 2021
I'd expect to see more Clipart with Word 97 though, lol.
From Autozone, Mobil 1 ESP 0w30 for $39 with tax. Regular price and will go in the '21 Corolla LE with 6k miles. The oil level was rising about a quarter inch above the full mark since it gets short tripped often. After a 500 mile trip the level didn't drop any. Last oil change was 7 months ago but only 2k miles on TGMO 0w20.
From AAP, 5quarts if Fram 0w40 and a force filter for co workers 09’ Focus 2dr with almost 220k on it now. Was very tempted to grab 5w40 but no jugs or single quarts left.
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