mobil 1 is always available in advance auto, pepboys, and even in sam's

 

From the Mobil Oil dot com Web site:

"Mobil 1 Limited Availability
We regret the limited availability of Mobil 1 motor oil. Due to the impact of Hurricane Ike on our raw material suppliers, we are experiencing limited availability of Mobil 1 motor oils. We appreciate your loyalty to the Mobil 1 brand and the trust you have placed in our products. We are working quickly to have your choice of Mobil 1 motor oils available at normal levels as soon as possible. Thank you for you patience."



I don't understand. Mobile One (and all full-synthetic oils) do not contain any petroleum products. At least that is what I have always understood.

If so, why would the hurricanes in the petroleum producing states effect the production of a motor oil that does not contain any petroleum?

 

The Kragens around me has Mobil 1 in stock, but they are charging $7.89 per quart.

 

I found some Mobil 1 so I wasn't in a panic ... I was just inconvenienced.
This post was more of a heads up on the shortage and a "what else would I/could I use".

German Castrol? Does it have like German writing on it?
Pepboys was running a Pennzoil special ... $25 for 5 qts of their full synthetic and a filter.
Case of Mobil 1 ran me $41 ... K&N filter $11.

 

This is old news.

 

I was unable to find mobil1 at walmart and disount auto parts, so I just got the quakerstate q power full synthetic. it unleshes all my horses and jeff gordon uses it according to the commercial. lol.

 

i use motul and it has been... oily.

 

GARBAGE OIL. Seriously take it out and put Amsoil in.

 

Same problem here with me. I had to buy the mobil 1 extended performance. Is this basically the same as mobil 1 synthetic?

 

It is better than normal Mobil 1. More protection and durability.. but it does cost more.

 

garbage according to who? you? do you have some sort of information to back that up?

 

yep, its definitely a problem

went with amsoil

 

walmart had 5w 30 and 10w 30, as of yesterday 26 bucks not bad..

 

Had the same issue up here in Colorado, went with Amsoil

 

Maybe the terms garbage is abit excessive but it is not the oil you want to be using in an Evo

Here is a couple of important tests related to OIL that shows Quakerstate performance:



HIGH TEMP BREAKDOWN


OIL LIFE