Old oil at AutoZone

[bchannell]

Stopped off at AZ to pick up some stuff and grabbed two gallons of Delo LE 15W40, as I like the SJ stuff in my tractor. Well, I get home and later when I'm unloading the truck, I realize the date codes on the oil, HOLY COW! Take a peak below.

What would you do? It's over 1 to 3 past the shelf life of the oil!

 

[Mr Nice]

I would use it without any worries.

 

[FlyingVan]

You should immediately pack it up and send it to me. My truck won't even notice.

 

[demarpaint]

I would shake it up and use it.

 

[andyd]

S'allright. It is mellowing like good whiskey. If your truck had lips it would sigh with pleasure

 

[Garak]

I'd be fine with it.

 

[atikovi]

It's been in the ground 100,000,000 million years, what's another 6 years?

 

[philipp10]

They put a date on everything.....they had to pick some date. In the case of bottles of oil, IMO, it's meaningless.

 

[aquariuscsm]

I wonder if anyone can beat the 1990 Syntec SJ rated oil Sears had for sale for $10 a quart haha!

 

[bchannell]

OK, I'll just use it, but just thought that was pretty old.

 

[53' Stude]

Originally Posted by bchannell
OK, I'll just use it, but just thought that was pretty old.



The 5 1gallon jugs of DELO XLE 10W30 were dated June and May 2014 I scored at autozone for $3 each

 

[koffy]

I found these at Wallyworld.

 

[Garak]

Originally Posted by koffy
I found these at Wallyworld.

There, now that's old oil.

 

[koffy]

Originally Posted by Garak
Originally Posted by koffy
I found these at Wallyworld.

There, now that's old oil.

Yea right? I wonder how old that M1 is.

 

[NormanBuntz]

That's a relative youngun to those of us who have a stash.

 

[Gebo]

Wouldn't think twice about it. I would think once, post on bitog, and forget about it thinking about it the first time after everyone told me to forget about it.

 

[Garak]

Originally Posted by koffy
I wonder how old that M1 is.

Let's make a rough guess and say it's from 1993-6.

 

[Newman88]

They discontinued the Delo at AZ, my local AZ sold me 5 5gal buckets of 15w40 CK-4 and 15w40 CJ-4 for $30 each, not bad.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Vintage "Real Synthetic" Mobil One!

I would have grabbed that in a second!

 

[Mr Nice]

I still have 2 cases of red cap Mobil 1 that's 12 years old. I mix with 5w20 oil.