No more 5 qt Mobil 1 at Walmart?
 

Hey... can't seem to find the 5 quart container of Mobil 1 that was previously available at Walmart at a favorable price...something like $17 for 5 qts.

Have they stopped making this size/price for Walmart? Where else can I get it inexpensively?

--Wil Ferch

Wil,

I just saw it within the last two weeks at a Walmart in NJ.

I'll keep my eyes open next time there.

Same here in the Baltimore area, hopefully it was just out of stock.

From my experience, it's completely hit-or-miss.

I have heard about the 5 qt container of Mobil 1 but have never seen it at the Walmart in my area. admittedly I don't spend a lot of time in Walmart.

Had oil leak at Mid Ohio 2 weeks ago and local WalMart only had the 6 pack.

Targa80...
I'm not sure if i was just insulted...I don't spend a lot of time at Walmart either..but when high quality brand names are *known* to be sold there for cheap...I'm there...and quickly depart.

Otherwise...never set foot in there !!

---Wil Ferch

LOL.....that remark caught us all off guard. lol

Fear not The Mobil 1 is right next to the Fram oil filters. :D

Boy isn't that the truth...doesn't seem to be another brand option regarding filters at that store.
For those who haven't been following other threads...Don't buy Fram.

--Wil Ferch

Our Wal-Mart never has the 5-qt jugs.

What to do?

Go to Target and get the individual quarts for $3.49 ea. I believe.

Isn't Target considered the Upscale KMart?

Fram is know for their exploding housings. Besides that I was speaking to an engineer at MANN and he said that FRAMs filtration is excellent. Now if they could use higher quality components.

To All:

I apologize if my comment was insulting to anyone. It was not my intent to make any reference to shopping at Walmart means your cheap. I also am a bargain hunter when I can find it. What I meant was that I rarely go there so I have not seen Mobil 1 5 Qt. containers when I was there. I spend more time at Home Depot and a lot of time at Harbor Freight main wharehouse store in my town. Now Harbor Freight is a Bargain paradise when it comes to cheap tools.

I shop at Walmart all the time. What are you people saying? Are you somehow better than me?

I can never find the 15-50 Mobil 1 at Walmart either. Then I talked to my mechanic. "I just go to Walmart and buy up all the 5-quart containers," he says. "I clean 'em out. Best deal in town." :rolleyes: Jackass!

Tried Uncle Wally's website, no hits. WE don't have a store within 30 minutes....the one in Oxnard does have the stuff @ $17.08. or $
3.42 a quart.....:eek:

Well this seems a great place to tell all of you useing Mobil one in
pre 89 911's that you are pissing away money on an oil that is not the most highly recommended oil for your car. OK , the
"right " oil is KENDAL 20w50 gt-1. save money and change offen and stop those leaks, also cools better. AS PER BRUCE ANDERSON. and It has Worked for Me.

Keith

Yeah, but that stuff isn't green anymore so what good is it now???? :D ;)

Everybody's got their own oil preferences. I use Valvoline 20W50 VR-1 Racing in the 911 and Exxon Superflo or Chevron in my turbocharged car. Are they any good? I dunno. They have cool looking bottles.

If an extra couple bucks a quart makes people feel better then so be it.

I think you're safe with just about any brand name oil. The only one I recall being a little suspect is the ultra cheap Mobil oil. I guess they contain a high % ash content. At least they used to...... Now it's "Drive Clean" oil so it's gotta be good!!!! :D

I'm constantly struggling with the Dino/Syn debate. I'm a firm believer that Mobil 1 Syn does not break down at high temps, and for our air colled cars this is VERY important for the top-most piston ring and cylinder land groove that otherwise takes a beating when using ANY dino oil. The dino oil will simply not tolerate the very high temps of THAT particular area of the engine, wheras the Mobil 1 will.

As to leaks...well, yeah, there seems to be enough evidence that it helps find its way out of an engine, just like the quart containers of Mobil 1 themselves...always seem geasy and leaky from the outside compared to the other brand's dino oil on the shelf.

So...you're left with the dilemma and choice of giving your engine that extra edge in protection or living with ( or even chasing down and fixing) the various leak paths that can develop.

But don't ever say that Mobil 1 doesn't have an edge from a lubrication/protection standpoint..it does.

---Wil Ferch
( with over 200K miles on both of his other daily drivers..on normal oil...go figure. Water cooled, tho).

Wal-Mart is the best. Where else can you get .45 cal 230gr. hollow points that cheap, and while your girlfriend loads up on cleaning supplies? I love that place. And the one by my house is open 24/7.

You know, i have no affilition to amsoil, but i've been running their 10-30w for about 6,500 miles now in my daily driving 944. Even though they claim to let it run for like 30,000 miles or some crap like that, there's now way i am letting oil stay in their for that long. I am going to change the oil finally within the next 1,000 miles when i get a chance. But i have to say, i don't baby either of my cars at all (my daily trip up the mountain on my way home is usually in the range of 90-100 in my 944) and i checked the dipstick for discoloration or any sign at all of fatigue. The oil looked like mobil 1 does at after 3,000 miles. Not Bad. Although i did notice that mobil will develop oil pressure about a .5 sec faster than ams (i guess it flows a little better initially). But overall, i like both products, but have never tried good dino oils like valvoline or kendall. Although when i bought my 911 it had been changed by PO from mobil to castrol syntec and seems to take it.

I bought my oil drain pan at Wal-mart, didn't notice until too late that it had a hole melted in the bottom! :eek:

I found a cheep fix for a nagging problem at Wal-Mart. I have a '70 911 with the long hood. Of course the hood shocks don't support the hood. I was actually there to buy a lug wrench and jack, but while I was there I happened to run across a little plastic gizmo that attaches to one of the hood shocks and basically locks it open when it is opened a certain distance. Kind of like a holder for a screen door. Cors about $8 and I'll never have to use an ugly stick (which is what the PO used as a hood prop) again.

OK OK I have to say something then. WALL MART SUCKS!!!!!!!! Wal Mart= bad quality and a greatly reduced selection of goods. Wal Mart is helping lower the standard of living for America, they move in a town and do Price Penetration where they lower prices so all other competitors go out of business. Then with Wal Mart being the only store left in the area they implement their values on you... they are very into CENSORSHIP. Case in point: Maxium Magazine is no longer allowed to be sold at Wal Mart because the THEY think it is too racy. If you put everyone else out of business then you should be required by law to not impose censorship.

Another point, they are a non-union work place (Now I am by no means Union, I am a businessman and I dislike unions) they pay lower than many of the jobs they have replaced and employees have very very little rights when employed. You will notice Wal Mart has been in trouble with many state governments concerning abusing employee rights.

Wal-Mart has been dropped from Fortune Magazine’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. America’s largest employer fails to deliver the benefits that their associates deserve for making Wal-Mart the largest corporation in the world.

On top of that all Wal Mart only products are cheap plastic crap that you will end up buying 3 or 4 of them in a lifetime rather than 1 or maybe 2 from previous stores.

I understand some brand name products are cheaper there, make a stand! Say you don't want their crap stores in your town. Do you realize in Germany Wal Mart would go bankrupt simply because the citizens will not stand for such crap quality of goods.

People talk about this being the Greatest Country in the world.... they say this while it rots from the inside from such horrible qualities like Wal Mart.

SHAME ON YOU FOR SHOPPING AT WAL MART. It is one of the evilest corporations in the country.

Read more:
http://www.walmartwatch.com/index.cfm

i go in wallly world about once a year and hate it. i believe i read somewhere that there budget is bigger than the us government ( hard to believe) they open a new store every two days and they get sued for something stupid everyday.

i support local mom and pops, but wally world is the only place to buy sandpaper past midnight.

Confused, I couldn't agree more. That exact scenio occured in a small town I lived in Hawaii. For decades the economy was supported by the mom and pop shops. Wal Mart moved in, politically took some Hawaiian homelands, and opened up shop. Now, the business that made the island are gone or hurting. Promises of quality merchandise supporting by corporate marketing really brings in the customers. Now, with the mom and pop shops closed down, there is nowhere else to go. While I am all for the land of opportunity, do we really need garage sale quality items being sold as quality merchandise in every community?

Confused, your screen name is quite appropriate. I think plenty of people in Germany would jump at the chance to buy Mobil 1 at Wal Mart for $4 per qt. It costs over 15 Euros there. They have over 12% unemployment in Germany because they don't let their stores open on Sundays or stay open late on weeknights or Saturdays and unions absolutely run that country. I buy tons of Gatorade, Castrol, toothpaste, deodorant, cleaning supplies, etc. at Wal Mart. If you can't provide name brand products at the lowest price, then you'd better find customers who otherwise just love to throw money away. I'm not one of them. I don't care if Wal Mart runs sweat shops in SE Asia, incorporates in the Cayman Islands or doesn't provide benefits to their employees here. No one is forced to work there. On the other hand, those who work at the super market across the street are forced to join a union. I flipped burgers when minimum wage was $3.35 an hour and was happy to have a job. Did I curse everyone who patronized that restaurant? Boycott Wal Mart and you hurt the lowest-paid employees who most need the job.

Isn't that a bit harsh? You have a pretty libereral definition of censorship so it seems funny to try and shame people that don't agree with your choice of retailers.

Like the Wal Mart business model or not, it's very successful as it gives the masses what they want. If a mom & pop store can't compete then good riddance. My experience locally is that the mom & pop stores that provide excellent service, sales expertise, or unique products have continued to do very well.

I would rather spend my money on my P-car than pay an extra $3 for every CD I buy or buck for a quart of oil. As for the junk, well, don't buy it. If you are an informed consumer you can save a lot of money at Wal Mart on name brands. If you buy the Sampo DVD player for $69 then you are on your own.

How the hell do I change my name anyway?

Look as far as the name brand stuff, I am sure there are alternatives. Target has the lowest prices on CDs, save a couple of bucks there. Doesn't everyone have a Costco yet?SmileWavy


Thanks for your support! Free America

I am mom-n-pop store (IGA grocery started by my grandfather) and we're getting eaten alive by the big guys who charge more than us because the American lemmings shop at the big stores to "save money". The problem is that the public will get what it demands and deserves while the better business goes out. Remeber betamax?

Look...I can see both sides of the issue, and this point can be taken much further....for example, I have very personal and strong views about outsourcing professional jobs ...like engineering...to Ex-Soviet expats or low wage workers from India, etc etc, which debases certain salary expectations.... so let's not go there, as this can mutate into a wholely different thread, as valid as the opposing viewpoints might be.

"confused"..no...there is no Costco near me ...and capitalism, not taken to ridiculous exteremes, is still the arrangement of choice to better everyone'e living standards at all levels. We just need to manage and voice opposition to extreme positions taken in this area.

--Wil Ferch

My only problem with wal-mart is my wife took a part-time job there about 2 years ago. The pay was not that big of a deal because she didnt need to work anyway. She was a stay at home mom and didnt have to work. It was more of a way to get out of the house for a couple of hours a week.

To make a long story short.........

My wife left me for a stock boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Buy your oil at Wal-Mart but never let your spouse work there.

Steve

This is a bit off topic, even for this 'off topic' topic, but I bought some stuff at Wal Mart in Germany last time I was there. I think it was some film or something. I couldn't believe that there was a Wal Mart in Germany. I think I even have a picture of my friend Ted in front of the store. On a Porsche related note I was on my way from Stuttgart to the Nurburgring at the time :)

-Aaron

Little known fact-
 

They actually had Wal Marts in Iraq until recently..................













.......they had to change their name to "Target"...
(sorry I couldn't resist):D

No apology required. I think some people on this forum just take thing a little too personal, especially that frenchmen or is it freedom men.

Not only do I remember Betamax but I still have a working Hi-Fi Beta VCR. Picture quality was a lot better than VHS but no where near DVD.

Speaking of better format, I listen to music on my mini disc because
1. it's smaller than a CD player,
2. I can reuse the mini disc over and over again.
3. It can record and play while portable cd players only play, you need a burner to burn some cd.

I can't believe someone just shamed me on an internet bulletin board. I think I'm going to go shoot myself.

See Richard LeSchander he carries $20.00 worth of ammo.

Wal Mart sells rifles & shotguns at a discount...;)

Kinda hard to blow out your brains with a rifle or shotgun unless you have really long arms.

If you need a really good synthetic oil, you might want to try Rotella 5W-40 full synthetic for winter driving. It's a very high quality diesel rated oil. Last time I checked at Walmart, it was priced at $12.88/gal in Colorado.

Actually, I believe Wal Mart is the largest firearms retailer in the US, and before Rosie came along, was only ahead of K-Mart in that area. I almost never think to go there for my ammo needs, but it sure is nice to have cheap gun supplies nearby and available 24/7. Now, if only they could install tritium night sites for me while I wait. They actually have a Mini 14 for sale at the one by my house. What a country!