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12-20-2012, 08:00 AM
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Woolf Barnato
Joined: Jul 2004
Location: OAK
Oddometer: 29,109
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Oil thread?
I love buying oil in bulk. It's not a lot compared to other shops but 110 gallons at a time is still cool for me.
Normally we buy Total synthetic in bulk not by the drum but this was overstock and about $3.60 a gallon less. 
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12-20-2012, 08:07 AM
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Joined: Feb 2002
Location: Elburn, IL
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My NAPA sells that stuff in the weights I can use for our VW's. $41 for five liters!
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12-20-2012, 08:57 AM
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Indubitably
Joined: Jun 2006
Location: Cow Hampsha, (NH, USA)
Oddometer: 11,627
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Mmmmmm oil......
we haz it... The Reznor waste oil unit on the wall burns the used oil: free heat!! (kinda)....  Mobil 5-30 $4.10/qt delivered this month... we get the good stuff cuz we're too cheap take vehicles out of service before 200k... mostly F150s 350s and E350s.... They all seem to love the stuff... lower mileage trucks that call for 5-20 get Duralube synthetic blend at $2.16/qt  Crush the filters and recycle them.... We're tryin to save the planet.. one drum of oil at a time....  
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12-20-2012, 05:43 PM
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Adventurer
Joined: May 2012
Location: Idaho
Oddometer: 94
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We usually buy about 10 drums of 15-40 at a time. Its oil change season right now, we have a 250 gallon tank for our waste oil furnace and I have been keeping it full with just the oil I drain out of trucks. Have a stockpile of waste oil for the furnace and arent burning it, going to have to turn the thermostat up on the weekends!
Also picked up about 10 gas powered chevy kodiaks to service, for those we just bought a pallet of 5-30 in quarts. |
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12-20-2012, 06:37 PM
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Woolf Barnato
Joined: Jul 2004
Location: OAK
Oddometer: 29,109
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'Gonna get me a six pack...push people off the highway!' "they live off the carrion of our mutual distrust and bribe us with symbols that equate hatred with manhood." "I mean at the end of the day, I was addicted to Starting Fluid for Christ's sake!" "Yeah, that guy sure is terrible at touching moms" |
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12-20-2012, 07:47 PM
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Joined: Feb 2002
Location: Elburn, IL
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 ps-Do you know anything about this new Castrol SLX that all the VW dealers are pushing? They only charge me $6/quart, so I can't imagine how little they are paying to get it. |
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12-20-2012, 08:30 PM
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gooligan
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: Dubuque, Iowa
Oddometer: 4,307
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Castrol SLX is the factory OEM supplier for VW. Our VW oil is just over $5 a quart. I would guess the Castrol is more, but sometimes it's hard to determine the true costs to a dealer, because of all the programs and discounts that may be involved. If they are charging you only $6 a quart, I doubt if they are making any more than a buck a quart. And I'm assuming you're talking about full syn 5w-40 that meets the 504/507 spec. |
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12-20-2012, 08:56 PM
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Indubitably
Joined: Jun 2006
Location: Cow Hampsha, (NH, USA)
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12-20-2012, 10:19 PM
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Woolf Barnato
Joined: Jul 2004
Location: OAK
Oddometer: 29,109
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I use all the weird Euro brands at my shop because they meet all the multi digit long life specifications the car companies want and they come in those cool five liter bottles with the built in spout. I don't use the spout, I unscrew it with a big pair of channel locks and use a big funnel.
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'Gonna get me a six pack...push people off the highway!' "they live off the carrion of our mutual distrust and bribe us with symbols that equate hatred with manhood." "I mean at the end of the day, I was addicted to Starting Fluid for Christ's sake!" "Yeah, that guy sure is terrible at touching moms" |
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12-20-2012, 10:44 PM
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Talks to cats
Joined: Jun 2005
Location: SF Bay Area
Oddometer: 5,293
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Channel locks? Not a Knipex Cobra or something similar?
How gauche. 
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12-20-2012, 10:59 PM
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Woolf Barnato
Joined: Jul 2004
Location: OAK
Oddometer: 29,109
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'Gonna get me a six pack...push people off the highway!' "they live off the carrion of our mutual distrust and bribe us with symbols that equate hatred with manhood." "I mean at the end of the day, I was addicted to Starting Fluid for Christ's sake!" "Yeah, that guy sure is terrible at touching moms" |
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