Comments on: Wear War: Shell/Quaker State Calls Out Competitors http://www.roadfly.com/features/wear-war-shellquaker-state-calls-out-competitors.html The helpful car community! Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:13:15 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: baybjag http://www.roadfly.com/features/wear-war-shellquaker-state-calls-out-competitors.html/comment-page-1#comment-494 baybjag Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:08:41 +0000 http://www.roadfly.com/features/?p=174#comment-494 the true is they all make a good product.I would hazard that the vast majority of people have no idea what oil goes into their engines as long as it was put there by a qualified service org. Most do it your selfers will have a preference to one or another brand, but that comes more from years of use and a gut feeling on how well it performs. With todays engines, if you change the oil (and filter)regularly at 3- 5k miles,with a branded oil meeting specs, do the basic recommended maintainence, its a pretty good bet you'll get 150 to 200k miles out of your engine before it begins to give you signs of wear. I've done this for 30 years with my cars from honda,volvo jaguar, saab, nissan, and not one has ever suffered a n lubrication related problem. I keep my cars generally 150 to 225k miles. the true is they all make a good product.I would hazard that the vast majority of people have no idea what oil goes into their engines as long as it was put there by a qualified service org. Most do it your selfers will have a preference to one or another brand, but that comes more from years of use and a gut feeling on how well it performs. With todays engines, if you change the oil (and filter)regularly at 3- 5k miles,with a branded oil meeting specs, do the basic recommended maintainence, its a pretty good bet you’ll get 150 to 200k miles out of your engine before it begins to give you signs of wear. I’ve done this for 30 years with my cars from honda,volvo jaguar, saab, nissan, and not one has ever suffered a n lubrication related problem. I keep my cars generally 150 to 225k miles.

]]> By: Dmac http://www.roadfly.com/features/wear-war-shellquaker-state-calls-out-competitors.html/comment-page-1#comment-492 Dmac Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:52:08 +0000 http://www.roadfly.com/features/?p=174#comment-492 My understanding is that only Valvoline has replied to the request to this point, and have only gone as far to state that 'they make good oil too'. No word from the Mobil or Castrol guys - but Castrol Edge still has the best current advertising campaign. Now, their engineers just need to start thinking with THEIR dipsticks... jimmy! My understanding is that only Valvoline has replied to the request to this point, and have only gone as far to state that ‘they make good oil too’.

No word from the Mobil or Castrol guys – but Castrol Edge still has the best current advertising campaign. Now, their engineers just need to start thinking with THEIR dipsticks… jimmy!

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