cohlineman
01-16-2006, 03:48 PM
I haven't posted in soooo long but today I just had to!
Upon going to my local auto parts store, plug for Smothers here, I noticed my usual motor oil, Royal Purple in 5W30 was not available. I sauntered over to the counter and asked the very helpfull young man if he had any in the back. He asked me if I was doing synthetic changes in my car with a smirk, I said yes and he came out from the back with 6 quarts(I always get a spare) of Red-Line!
I stopped him and said I had requested RP to which he replied , "then you aren't using synthetic!" with that damn smirk again on his face!!!
He then proceeded to show me the new labling on the RP bottles which no longer claim to be Synthetic but just to have a "Synthetic additive". So much for saving a few cents over Red Line. He said he would be surprised if RP would stay around or at least stop getting the hefty price it has been getting claiming to be synthetic.
When I got home, I could not believe how stupid I had been for so long. Remember that extra bottle I mentioned earlier??? Well 3.5K miles ago I bought one and sure enough my bottle of RP said "synthetic" all over it....no mention of additives or any of the new crap that is on the bottle he showed me. Talk about pissed!
Half of you will tell me this is old news, the other half have been telling me to run Red Line since 2002!
Upon going to my local auto parts store, plug for Smothers here, I noticed my usual motor oil, Royal Purple in 5W30 was not available. I sauntered over to the counter and asked the very helpfull young man if he had any in the back. He asked me if I was doing synthetic changes in my car with a smirk, I said yes and he came out from the back with 6 quarts(I always get a spare) of Red-Line!
I stopped him and said I had requested RP to which he replied , "then you aren't using synthetic!" with that damn smirk again on his face!!!
He then proceeded to show me the new labling on the RP bottles which no longer claim to be Synthetic but just to have a "Synthetic additive". So much for saving a few cents over Red Line. He said he would be surprised if RP would stay around or at least stop getting the hefty price it has been getting claiming to be synthetic.
When I got home, I could not believe how stupid I had been for so long. Remember that extra bottle I mentioned earlier??? Well 3.5K miles ago I bought one and sure enough my bottle of RP said "synthetic" all over it....no mention of additives or any of the new crap that is on the bottle he showed me. Talk about pissed!
Half of you will tell me this is old news, the other half have been telling me to run Red Line since 2002!