Engine oil prices WTF

Jonny69

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I just went round to the spares shop to get some cheap oil to run my engine in. Was looking for the £4.99/gal 20W50 stuff, so decided to check elsewhere when I saw it was £8.99. Anyway, the other shops had the same stuff for £12 and £11 so I ended up going back to the first place :eek:

And the price of the good stuff OMFG :eek:

When did the prices go up that much?
 
Oil has always been expensive hasn't it? Cheapest I've ever paid was £15 for 5 litres of Ford 5w30, most I've paid was £15 for 1 litre of Edge 0w30.
 
I pay around £40 for 4L of oil for my car - has to conform to various standards etc.
You pays your money and you get the quality.
 
[TW]Fox;14664228 said:
Oil has always been expensive hasn't it? Cheapest I've ever paid was £15 for 5 litres of Ford 5w30, most I've paid was £15 for 1 litre of Edge 0w30.
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Maybe it's just the fact that not many cars use thick basic oil any more and it's becoming more scarce? 5W30 and the like was well over £20 and it was the cheap brand, not Castrol etc.
 
Simon said:
I've spent £1.8million so far this year developing the stuff, its not cheap to develop nor make.
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Lies, we all know that you get an oil rig. Set it out at sea, plumb it up and whooooosh Castrol GTX comes out. Happy days ;)
 
have a look for Motul 8100 eco energy

im sure i found this for £26.99 inc VAT for 5l....and its ester based synthetic or whatever that means?!

i dont know if its the *best* but surely better than halfords own?!
 
Jonny69 said:
Maybe it's just the fact that not many cars use thick basic oil any more and it's becoming more scarce? 5W30 and the like was well over £20 and it was the cheap brand, not Castrol etc.
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I reckon the price of engine oil has gone up quite a bit actually, but then again the quality has also improved. I have lots of receipts from when I had my MR2 showing I used to buy 5L of 10W40 Valvoline "fully synthetic" (though probably not 'real' synthetic) for about £16 at my local motor factors, but even the cheapest never-heard-of-them brands are quite a bit more than that now.
 
Wow, wish I could find engine oil for £9 a gallon!

Nothing sensibly priced around here, so as mine's due for a change it'll be getting 6l of Mobil Super S semi-synthetic. Not much change from £40. :(
 
I paid £50 for 5L of Silkolene Pro-S 5W-40 before xmas and 6 months prior it was £45.

I don't think prices have risen much, its just the choice is narrowing from store to store so they inflate prices.
 
The Manta lives on Motorway 20/50 which used to be £4.99 but you struggle to find it at that price, or stocked at all these days.
 
Firestar_3x said:
I've had to do that before, not cheap!
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Both her TDi and my RS4 take the same oil and we never really buy it sensibly. I put a litre in mine today as when I checked it was just on the minimum and it does like to drink the stuff, around 3 litres between services presently.
 
Housey said:
Both her TDi and my RS4 take the same oil and we never really buy it sensibly. I put a litre in mine today as when I checked it was just on the minimum and it does like to drink the stuff, around 3 litres between services presently.
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That can't be normal.

My old 5 hasn't drunk/burnt a drop in 5k miles, it's done 111,000 and thats with 0w40.

Opie oils can be good for the harder to find oils and has a wide range, they offer discounts (30% last month) quite a bit which more than covers postage, and Mobil F/S 0w40 is £23 (5L)
 
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