Yay! I saved $1.13!

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RJM62

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Getting ready for the Springtime Service on my car.

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With Amazon Prime free shipping and using their Store Card (5 percent back on all purchases), they beat Wally World's price by $1.13. Plus I didn't have to make the 96-mile drive to get it. Woo-hoo!





(It doesn't take much to make me happy.)

Rich
 
Cpt_Kirk said:
You drive 96 miles to go to Wal-Mart?
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Yep. That's round-trip for the closest one. The others are a bit farther away.

There's almost no reason why I'd make that drive to a Wal-Mart other than to buy motor oil. Their prices on oil are soooo much lower than almost any other place that it's worth the trip, especially if I have some other chore I can combine into it. The Wal-Mart I usually go to is right near a Sam's Club that's halfway decent, so I usually combine the trip.

This time around, however, I have an oil change scheduled for March, and no other reason I can think of to make the trip to Wally World or Sam's Club before then. I'm a bit OCD about oil changes (among other things), so I don't want to put it off, and I was fretting over having to make the trip just to buy a jug of oil.

I'd never thought about buying motor oil from Amazon before because I figured the shipping costs would be prohibitive. But that was before I joined Prime. As it turns out, Amazon's price for Penn Plat is exactly the same as Wally World's, and the shipping is free if you have Prime. Plus if you have both Prime and Amazon's plastic, you get five percent back, making the effective price $1.13 less than Wal-Mart's.

Not only that, but I saved the trip and the roughly $5.94 worth of gas I'd have burned making it (assuming this morning's gas price of $1.98 / gallon at the Sparrow Fart Speedway), making the effective savings a whopping $7.07! Woo-hoo!

Life is good. :)

Rich
 
Do what they do in Alaska, just fly your plane and taxi into the parking lot, load up and head on out!
 
I actually buy the Shell Rotella T6 diesel oil for my motorcycle.....MUUUUUUUCH cheaper than the motorcycle stuff, and just as good.

Thus far, Walmart is the only place i've found the T6 for sale.
 
Just drove 80 miles round trip,to save 130.00 on two stroke oil for the outboard. Make the trip about every year and a half.
 
vkhosid said:
I actually buy the Shell Rotella T6 diesel oil for my motorcycle.....MUUUUUUUCH cheaper than the motorcycle stuff, and just as good.

Thus far, Walmart is the only place i've found the T6 for sale.
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I use Rotella T, T5, or T6 sometimes when I come into possession of an older gasoline vehicle with a questionable maintenance history. I do one or two short-interval (1,000 to 1,500-mile) oil changes with it to clean out the gunk in the engine, then switch over to Penn Plat when it stops looking like road tar when I drain it out.

Although frankly, the Penn Plat does a pretty excellent job of cleaning out gunk in its own right. I usually tell people switching to it to keep the first OCI short because it dislodges so much crap that I worry about clogging the filter. The Ultra, I'm told, is even better at cleaning. But Rotella is cheap at Tractor Supply, so that's my usual choice on an older car that needs to be douched out.

I also know a lot of guys who use Rotella T1 in Rotax ultralight engines and who swear by it. They're still alive, so I guess it does no harm; but it's not recommended by Rotax. They recommend Aeroshell Sport Plus 4, at least for the 912. I'm not sure about their other engines.

Rich
 
I'm more of a Valvoline Premium Blue sorta guy, and currently experimenting with Valvoline Premium Blue Extreme in the Cummins, over Pennzoil, but Platinum in the gassers and the Shell Rotella T6 are also amazing oils.

The old Rotella T always smelled funny in diesels to me. Some folks say they can smell it, others can't. I always could tell if someone used Rotella T.

For those who use Blackstone for aviation or other engines -- there's a little write up about them currently on the front page at http://www.bobistheoilguy.com -- with some photos and discussion of their test processes.
 
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