Originally Posted by dave1251
Originally Posted by wemay
I don't care how others spend their money or how long their intervals are. I just tune out the veiled, condescending comments like so many floated around here when a poster uses what's required by a manufacturer...
-Oil is cheap, engines aren't
-I use X because I want the absolute best for my car
-I don't know why people spend X on their car and cheapen out on oil
Etc.
I agree with this. I don't understand the correlation because the product costs this means it's better.
The price to quality ratio is all over the place and depends on where you are paying for what. From the time since Mobil 1 has been commonly and cheaply available at Walmart which as referenced is a place with no member fee to get in, 5 quart jugs costing under $25 for just about any Mobil 1 that is not the Annual Protection ? I observe three things:
1. Boutique oils are almost irrelevant; some may still seek them out. Perhaps it is application.. I do not know.
2. Parts stores are too high priced on oil, as well as just about everything else; as mentioned before, they still sell oil. Perhaps some feel Walmart is not an acceptable place to shop, not a car place, not quality stuff even though the Mobil 1 is the same, any number of reasons.
3. Oil quality has improved drastically with every API service category up to and including the new SN and SN plus and oil is not the same as in the 70s, 80s. Maybe the drastic improvement in quality came in the 90s, maybe in the 2000s. However, past 2010 and now coming up hot on 2020,
you can get good, very good, excellent quality oil and any price point, and the decisions on which way to go take a number of turns, framed also in individual preference. And nobody is incorrect in a choice of brand they like. Nor oil they choose. Now, if that turns out to be the wrong oil for the car, maybe that is the discussion.