Anyone Want Oil?

[made_guy]

I tried to find interest in this a while ago and got none - but here goes nothing...

I'm buying some more oil from www.performancelub.com and was just wondering if anyone wants to jump in on the same order to cut down on shipping?

I'd imagine if we'd probably bring it down to about

$10 per order shipping for 2 people

$<7 for 3

$5 for 4

etc

i'm in kangaroo point brissie and am happy to arrange the order and then have people pick up from me or i'll even deliver if you're nearby.

i'm also down the gold coast a bit too, so anyone down there is welcome to jump in.

[ZENNON]

why do you buy from there and what do you buy

edit: had a look at the website and yeah ill stick with my motul out of interest how much do you spend on oil?

[dano4127]

Im in for some royal purple mate! Im at Kangaroo point too

[usmair]

i threw in some royal purple over the weekend along with a new oil filter.... didnt have any noticable difference......

dunno what the big hype around that product is.... hopefully its good protection...

ah well... motul next time...

[dano4127]

i threw in some royal purple over the weekend along with a new oil filter.... didnt have any noticable difference......

dunno what the big hype around that product is.... hopefully its good protection...

ah well... motul next time...

Doubt your going to feel a performance gain changing oils, the hype is around the protection it is claimed to give your motor

[666DAN]

Doubt your going to feel a performance gain changing oils, the hype is around the protection it is claimed to give your motor

It's all relative, I've always used middle shelf oil under stupid conditions...my engines have always lasted beyond what you'd expect for them. 350,000Kms on a 4AGE living on the redline most of it's life, 160,000kms on an RB25DE+t when that was stolen it wasn't blowing smoke or showing any signs of oil related problems....it must have seemed OK, the dodgy dealer down NSW seemed to think it deserved a rewind back to 35,000kms

I doubt there would be any bennefit over most average to premium oils out there, especially the amount of K's most people here drive....just a brand price premium people pay.

[dano4127]

Im thinking I will probably get 10 quarts so that makes 3 people already including you dane, I wil post on SAUQLD too to see if we can get some interest

[dano4127]

Just spoke to another supplier he might be able to get us a better deal if we do a proper group buy and he is local, I will keep you informed

[made_guy]

legend dan! let me know how you go

sorry, haven't kept an eye on this thread over the last couple of days.

i checked quantities for qualifying for a group disount with performancelub - 48 quarts...

not sure if we can get that amount of interest.

last time i bought oil i spent abut $160 i think getting 5 quarts of royal purple and 5 of redline. shipping for the extra 5 quarts (10 total) only added about $3 to the original $20 i would've paid for shipping 5 quarts.

i think if you change your oil every ~5000kms, and don't hammer your car every weekend or whatever, you can definitely stick with mid-range oil without really missing out on anything.

i'm using redline for now cos i'm not sure what used to be used in my engine, and i figure a few cycles of redline will help clean the system, and then i'll probably drop back to a cheaper option.

[ZENNON]

yeah i use motul and change it often

[made_guy]

what type of motul are you using? and what sort of $$ do you pay??

[ZENNON]

motul 4100 turbolight (its 10w40)

cost... hmm car has been off the road for 9 months so haven't bought recently

but from memory its around $40 (for 4 liters!)

[RusH_]

motul 4100 turbolight (its 10w40)

cost... hmm car has been off the road for 9 months so haven't bought recently

but from memory its around $40 (for 4 liters!)

Repco sells the 10w 40(semi synth) for $48 for 5 litres, thats what im using atm

Thinking of changing to 5w 40 (full synthetic), $68 for 5 litres, although not sure if i want to fork out the extra evrey 5000kms.

Im tempted to jump on board this buy for some plugs if possible, wanting some iridiums for the next oil change, not too keen on doing the copper plugs every 5-10000 kms and they seem to have decent prices on them

[ZENNON]

Repco sells the 10w 40(semi synth) for $48 for 5 litres, thats what im using atm

yeah thats the one! (FIVE litres!!)

[RusH_]

lol, damn any company that tries to sell 4 litres making us all go and buy a second bottle to be able to fill our rides!

[ZENNON]

haha - haven't bought oil in a long time ok

last time i bought i bought a lot and then car was off the road for 9 months

so give me a break

ps. +-$25 for 0.946L is a rip IMO

[dano4127]

haha - haven't bought oil in a long time ok

last time i bought i bought a lot and then car was off the road for 9 months

so give me a break

ps. +-$25 for 0.946L is a rip IMO

$25 - Aikona!

How did you work that out?

Royal Purple works out to be $13.30 per liter vs Autobarn Logan City $18.00 Per liter

Shipping should be around $5 per order so $67.75 for 5 quarts shipped it was $89.99 last time i got it at Autobarn

I would probably use $7 in fuel to get to autobarn anyway!!!

Edited July 21, 2008 by dano4127

[ZENNON]

$25 - Aikona!

haha - are you a saffa??

ps here are my calcs for your enjoyment

motul turbolight 10w40:

$48 for 5 litres = $9.60/litre

somecrazyexxyoilcosyourcardeservesthebest:

$25 for 0.946 litres = $26.42

so based on the fact that I think motul is awesome last option is exxy imo

[dano4127]

haha - are you a saffa??

ps here are my calcs for your enjoyment

motul turbolight 10w40:

$48 for 5 litres = $9.60/litre

somecrazyexxyoilcosyourcardeservesthebest:

$25 for 0.946 litres = $26.42

so based on the fact that I think motul is awesome last option is exxy imo

My Girlfriends family is, and from that suspension tech day you gotta be or possibly zim?

So the $25 one im guessing is the redline?

I am going to buy Royal Purple which which works out to be $5 per liter cheaper than anywhere else I have found

[ZENNON]

yeh im an ex-saffa

ps. if you can get your hands on a 1bil zim dollar note id be keen to get one to frame