Ashland makes NAPA .a good product for a real good price on their quarterly sales .

Vavoline is no longer part of Ashland Specialty Chemicals.

That may be the reason for the sale,All my NAPA bottles say Ashland on them.

Who cares what this loudmouth, opinionated, jackass has to say about oil.

Scotty is awesome. Is he perfect? No. Nobody is.

Gotta love him though.

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He tells us that GM and Volkswagen suck, which they do, so he's OK in my book.

Why are you hating on Scotty?

I like him.

He sometimes has non traditional ways (and cheaper) of solving car problems, if the part is already broke, why not try his recommendations?

I was team Scotty until he told me I had to buy an oem fuel pump

Scotty is the type of quirky weirdo you are bound to encounter if you work in the industry for a while. Some of these guys spend so much time under cars that they start getting cabin fever-type batshit crazy ideas and then convince themselves it's the only way that really works.

It's like the basement dweller thing here, except with garages. Maybe it's just the gas and exhaust fumes.

But I think he's an entertaining dude.

He's entertaining

yes he did.

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jump to 1:30.

If it's SN synthetic Dexos, what price would you pay?

$2.89 Harvest King from Attwoods. Do you see the point? Private label oil comes from a major bottler, it's the same stuff.

Case in point: visited an oil refinery in KCMO back in the 70's, class trip to see what they do. We walk into a canning operation, max exposure 15 minutes with ear pro and see three machines three stories tall filling cans with oil.

The cans are RANDOMLY put into the machines from bulk boxes shipped from the can manufacturer - single source factory - and run thru orienting them up, filling, and crimping on the metal lid. THEN by optical sorter the BRANDS are separated to go into cases where they are automatically sealed and stacked for shipping.

That was a Phillips 66 plant and it was casing five different competitors who all challenged each other on the open market. Over 40 years ago. Same oil. Identical. First a Kerr McGee, then Phillips, then another, and another, and another. It was all the same oil going into the cans by random order then sorted. Not all one can with their special formula only.

I'm not paying an extra $6 per quart for SN grade ASE Dexos certified oil just because I need to boast what Brand it is. ASE rated SN grade oil is tested and used in new flat tappet motors which are still coming off the foundry lines. (OMG the Zinc, what about the Zinc? Well, what about it?)

I will, however, ring up a customer buying 7 quarts of Royal Purple for his oil change every 3,000 miles in a late model Mustang.

Pride of Ownership will cost you money.

That's... Odd.

I don't really give a shit about him cleaning the cat with soap. Yeah, it's stupid, but it's probably not going to damage anything but the already-broke cat.

Putting lacquer thinner in an almost empty gas-tank and running the car though... Sorry, I've replaced enough fuel pumps and injectors in my life already, I'll pass and possibly fucking up everything from the tank to the tailpipe.

the thing is, he's totally full of shit, and himself. I'm not sure he's got anything more than bad advice for the click and clack crowed.

I wanted a 10W40 semi synthetic.  Not many 10W40 choices at Wally, probably none these days.  I bought six of the 5 quart Amazon oils and they shipped to my house free.  All I had to do was click.  Same with the oil filters.

10w40 will probably go away here soon. At least for modern blends.

Well that ranks high on the dumbest shit I have heard.

Hah, like you could ever get this place to agree on the additive package or any other aspect of it.

They don't.

He's full of shit. There's literally tons of different manufacturers for oil that bottle. It's why there's an entire organization called ILMA. Independent lubricant manufacturers association.  A good friend of mine is the president of it currently.

Edit

Two of my mentors in this industry have been presidents of it.

Can it be relabeled Rotella T5 10W30?  

Actually, what we should do is get something like mobil 1, which many of us use as gun oil, relabeled as arfcom gun oil.  Foxtrot08 and the Avilias could probably sell 1/2 pint bottles for the retail price of the quart sized original car oil.

Why the fuck does this guy have to yell all the time?