Originally Posted by Tjbouwhu
Originally Posted by Tjbouwhu
Originally Posted by wdn
Unless you are buying a top shelf product like Edge EP and using it for 15,000 mile oil changes like it is intended for, it seems to make no sense to use brand name anything for motor oil. Synthetic motor oil that meets industry or OEM standards is a commodity item like paper napkins or sugar. If you are just going to change it every 5,000 miles, whatever is cheap and meets the spec is fine. Prices are dropping on synthetic oil and now it's reaching the $2.25 to $2.50 a quart price point for very good oil. Even name brand synthetic under $3/qt is getting easy to find.
IMO opinion, you hit the nail on the head, especially if you have a GDI engine...no sense waistline money on expensive oil!
Mobil-1 Vanilla, Pennzoil Platinum, Quaker State Ultimate, Valvoline Advanced, Castrol Magnatec and Edge, are not expensive oils.
My vehicles are worth an extra $10 twice a year, for brand-name synthetic oil. It sure beats spending that $10 on lottery tickets, casinos, card games, cigarettes, beer, fast food and even pot.