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Murray's is having a sale on oil. Any of the following are $1.29 a quart. Which of the following would ne the best choice in your opinion?

Quaker State - Peak Preformance
Valvoline - All Climate Protection
Pennzoil - Time-Released Protection
Havoline - Adds More Life to Cars
Castrol GTX - Maximum Protection Against Thermal Breakdown

no mobil 1, no care

none of the above. try this:

New Choices
Royal Purple
Amsoil
Mobile One

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none of the above. try this:

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The point is they are on sale. I don's have the money for more than they costs.

I use Mobil 1 in all of my cars, but Castrol GTX is still my favorite dino oil. Still use it in lawn equipment, etc.

Phil

Quaker State is junk.
I would choose Havoline if I had to choose out of those. Although, when I use dino, I use Motorcraft. Most of those oils, IIRC, come from the same place anyways.

Pennzoil and Quaker State are most nearly the same product. They came together long before Shell bought them. They use the same base stock as Chevron dino oil which is really as much of a synthetic as Castrol synthetic.

Chevron and Havoline (Texaco) are very nearly the same product and both use Chevron's "iso syn" base stock.

Mobil Drive Clean also uses base stock that is nearly synthetic. The latest GF4 formulation actually uses a slightly better base stock than Chevron (group III from Mobil vs Group II+ for the others). Mobil also supplies GM Goodwrench oil as well as Chrysler Mopar oil, which are probably also very nearly the same oil.

Conoco, Phillips, Union 76, Kendall, and Motorcraft are also very nearly the same oil. They also use Chevron's "iso syn" base stock. Motorcraft actually labels theirs as "synthetic blend".

I don't know much about Valvoline.

Of the ones you listed, I would choose Havoline (Texaco), but there isn't that much difference between any of the ones I listed to make it a hard fast choice.

I vote for mobil "drive clean" dino oil from walmart for $0.99 / qt

Or maybe an as of yet un-named oil that will help me drive clean while giving peak performance in all climates with time released protection that ads more life to my car through maximum protection against thermal breakdown!!!

Mobil 1 or Amsoil....im more of a mobil 1 guy....regardless of price.


Penzoil if you have to....


Lupe

Mobil dino oil.

It's normally that price without a sale and is made from a great base stock.


From the list - Havoline.



{edit}yeah what Jim said {/edit}