Sounds very logical. But where I live there are few high performance
foreign cars. This is one of the places you'd call a Ford Pick-em-up area.
A few weeks ago I bought 15W50 in W'mart - had to search behind the
bottles/jugs of 10W30 to find them but they were there. Yesterday I looked
and there weren't *any* 15W50 M1 jugs or bottles. Then again, I've never
been impressed with the stocking procedures used by wmart - I am on a low
carb diet and finding stuff edible with very low carbs take some hunting.
found some snacks that were great - but after a month or so their stock ran
out and it hasn't been resupplied. This has happened on 4 or 5 different
products. I could *swear* someone is watching and saying, "OK here comes
Larry - let's see what he buys and stop stocking it." But that might be
paranoid. ;-\
Same with the oil - my MBs and 911 all need 15W50 - so today I'll check with
Pepboys. Maybe I'll wear a disguise so they won't know it's me. ;-)
Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts
Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil
Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs
Porsche Road Test http://members.rennlist.com/roadtest/
.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Hurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] I give up on Mobil-1
availability depends largely on the area. see, as sick as this sounds to
you, stores don't discriminate inventory based on the customer base. I
worked in retail years ago at a department store with a fairly affluent
clientelle. this chain also had stores with much poorer customers. as a
general rule, the poor stores sold a very high percentage of $59 cookware
sets and the store i was at sold every $800 cookware set within 2 days of
receipt. the poor area stores couldn't sell an $800 cookware set to save
their lives. consequently, we always had tons of $59 cookware sets and
they
always had tons of $800 sets. no one was happy!
here on the north side of atlanta you simply CANNOT find the 15w50 at
walmart because of the all the euro cars. basically, if anyone dunwoody
or
alpharetta sees 15w50, he just grabs it all and runs. all that is left is
the lightweight oil.
so the answer is to go out where everyone drives modern ford pickemup
trucks
that use super light oil. those walmarts will have no 5w30, but lots of
15W50.
simple, no?
On 6/30/06, Smith, Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The information that I received when I contacted them was to use the
online stores. The following are sites that they gave me to try. The
first
looked like they had a good price on case lots.
http://www.avlube.com
http://www.autobarn.com
http://www.eliteetc.com/momooil.html
http://www.mscdirect.com/
When I drove to my nearest Autozone, they didn't have any in stock and
didn't think that they could get any Delvac 1 or Turbo Diesel Truck.
They
did have Delvac 1300 which is normal oil as far as I know.
Todd Smith '85 300cd 248k
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of LarryT
Sent: Fri 6/30/2006 4:29 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Cc:
Subject: Re: [MBZ] I give up on Mobil-1
I sent a note to Mobil/Exxon about poor availabilty of their
oils -
this was
their reply:
<<Thank you for your inquiry,
You can contact Mobil at 1-800-662-4525 option1 and we can
locate
Mobil Distributor's for you. Mobil hates to see consumer's switch
over
to other brands due to product availability. You can also check
with
Autozones, Pep Boys, CSK stores, O'Reilley's and online at
www.avlube.com.
--
Thank you for choosing ExxonMobil products.
If you need further assistance, please contact ExxonMobil at
1-800-ASK-MOBIL>>>
Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts
Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil
Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs
Porsche Road Test http://members.rennlist.com/roadtest/
.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curt Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] I give up on Mobil-1
> Dave,
> If I had somewhere to put the big jug of Amsoil I'd be into
that
too.
> My best luck lately has been with AutoZone. Most of the
employees there
> are idiots but I hit it just right the other day and got a guy
interesting
> in actually selling something who will ensure that if I call on
Monday
> looking for Mobil 1 the amount I want will be there Friday
afternoon after
> work. Based on Marshall's interpretation of my oil analysis
results I
> won't have to actually try this out for 6 months or so. Hope the
guy still
> works there then...
>
> -Curt
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: I give up on Mobil-1
> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:42:40 -0400
> From: dave walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Mercedes mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> While running errands today I stopped in a 2 Wallmarts and 2
Advance
> Auto stores and NONE of them had ANY Mobil-1 0W-40, 15W-50 OR
5W-40.
> As much as I know you guys out there like Mobil-1, it just is
not
> worth my effort any more.
> So I go over to the Amsoil site and see a selection of
synthetics
to
> choose from. Given my current mood, I'm inclined to buy a 30
gallon
> jug and be done with it and let Mobil rot in hell where they
belong.
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation as to which Amsoil is "best"?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Dave Walton
> 94S350, 99E300
>
>
>
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