Almost Free 0w-20 Oil At Walmart

I guess it would help if Walmart listed the product on their website, but they don't! I only see the Quaker State 5w20 product. Useless.

 

Not in New England.

Guess we'll just have to keep debating the relative merits of Mobil-1 and Toyota's oil. :deadhorse:

 

I purchased the 5 gallon 0W20 QS this week from Walmart in Richland, WA. They had all products listed on the QS rebate.

Not to say the past is always an indicator of the future, but I still have my 1991 Accord with 238K miles which I've used QS 5W30 almost exclusively over the life of the car. I last measured an average cylinder compression of 191 psi + 2% in 2008 and haven't had any problems with valves or other lubricated engine components. Similar experience with a Maxda 626 which I sold and a GM pickup which I still have, so QS has my respect for durability in their oil.

That being said, I have averaged 70mpg over the last 12 months using Mobil 1 in our Pruis so I'll be watching for a significant decrease in mpg with the QS, but this specific offer seems too good to pass up.

 

WOW! 70mpg average. Come on, how do you do that? Crap I'm only averaging 52 mpg and I'm doing everthing I can, pulse and glide going below the speed limit etc. etc. Please tell us your secret to success?

 

Was at Walmart in Longview Washington on Feb. 26, 2012. No Quaker State Oil in 5 quart jugs in 0w20.

There was Mobil One 0w20 in 5 quart jugs for $26.00. Last time I was there it was $23.00.

Infact, almost everything at Walmart increased at least 10% in
the last 4-5 months since I was there.

Why of course there is no real inflation......

I guess Walmart must not be a REAL store...

alfon

 

Maybe he lives high up on the mountain and gets towed back home?

 

LOL !!!


rev

 

Some people are just lucky, and the displayed MPG is somewhat optimistic (inaccurate)

I bought a used 2005 Prius a couple of years ago. When I bought it the lowest tire was at 18 PSI and the highest was 30 (if memory serves me). Before I left the bank parking lot I put air in all the tires to get them all in the low 30s. I reset the MPG display and drove the car home (about a 20 mile trip). I wasn't used to the car so I didn't used the environmental controls or radio and I averaged nearly 70 MPG on the trip home. (something in the high 60s on the display, probably more like low 60s if you did the math by hand to make it accurate).

Since then I drive shorter trips and believe it or not the seasons change and weather occurs. Oh and I replaced the worn out LRR tires with tires that aren't LRR. So what do I see with non LRR tires? If I used the car for my wife's normal commute it gives me upper 50s, lower 60s, upper 60s on the display depending on the time of year.

Now in reality the display MPG is higher than actual but it doesn't seem odd to me for someone to mention getting 70 MPG on the display. If I took my tires off and put on some Michelin Energy Saver A/S or Bridgestone Ecopia EP100 I'd be seeing low 70s on the display in the summer.

Where you live (both terrain and temps), the tires you have, your driving style, etcetera. There are too many variables for someone to tell you one single thing they did to get 70 MPG. Just consider them lucky and move on. 52 MPG isn't bad, your's still beating the snot out of the people that can't figure out how to get past 38 MPG. See http://priuschat.com/forums/gen-ii-prius-fuel-economy/97730-document-your-mpg-doing-2.html if you want more details and pictures of the display.

 

Let me remind you that the poster supposedly AVERAGED 70 MPG over the last YEAR .... not ONCE .... not 'saw it on the display' .... not 'on one good trip' .... he said .... "I have averaged 70mpg over the last 12 months" ....

Let's see the display.


REV

 

My apologies to the OP for getting off topic but I share the car with my wife and daughter, and benefit quite a bit that the engine, transaxle, tires, etc. are sometimes warmed up before my seperate following round trip and subsequent recorded attributes. And this is mostly city not highway mileage. At this time, my spreadsheet indicates 70.2 MPG real (94.3% of MID mpg) for the last 12 months, relating to 961 miles and 59 round trips. Slowing down when not obstructing other drivers, operating the ICE in the most efficient power band, 44F/42R psi tire pressures, grill blocking, avoiding short trips, car and driver broke in, great underlying technology, all seem to help also.

The point I was trying to make originally was if I don't see a noticable decrease in MPG with the records I keep and using QS, I'll just choose which ever has the future current lower purchase price.

 

OK ... that makes sense ... you've pretty much cherry picked trips and conditions that are extremely beneficial to MPG's, using every advantage (like a warmed up engine) to get to that number, and excluding other less beneficial runnning time.

Interesting ... but not exactly AVERAGING 70 MPG, which is usually associated with the car's overall mileage ... not cherry picked segments of the car's overall mileage.

Either way ... great MPG's ... if only for those segments of driving. can't complain about that.

Agreed on your oil assumption. I doubt you would see an appreciable let alone calculateable difference in different 0-20 oils. Mobil one works for me ... so does Toyota ... so does QS if I can find it.


REV

 

If you are trusting those official govt. reports about inflation, you should know better.

 

Yes, the average mpg can go through the roof if you start with an already warmed engine.

 

My take is that the Prius application is not all that demanding on oils. The psuedo Atkinson cycle keeps the BMEP fairly low and normally the engine only operates intermittently. Instances of engine failure are truly rare and I cannot believe that every owner is absolutely fastidious about oil change intervals and grades. I would use Quaker State's synthetic oils with no reservation in my Prius.

If you would like to compare oil performance, e.g., ACEA A1 vs API SM you might want to look at the link below. There are differences - which I consider moot for the Prius.

dataStack

 

Precisely ....

REV