VX Weirdness

[Ldub]

I was talking to my wife about this, and she said she read somewhere that this is the new "scam" that companies are doing to cut corners and save money in this recessed economical time. Basically, a lot of products will look the same, but if you look at the box the net weight will be a little bit less. So keep your eyes on the products you buy.
Bart

PS - I guess this "discovery" complete negates this entire thread, which is good...

Well then...hijacking a perfectly good thread shouldn't be too much of an offence...

I've noticed it in coffee, beverages, shampoo...pretty much everything...

[nfpgasmask]

Well then...hijacking a perfectly good thread shouldn't be too much of an offence...

I've noticed it in coffee, beverages, shampoo...pretty much everything...

Yeah, it's effing monkey shi1te.

Bart

[IndianaVX]

J, bart,
add myself to the list. I was freaking out on no oil showing up on the dipstick. I allways use a quart of lucas syn. oil stabilizer, four quarts from the 5 quart jug, and have a quart left over.
well with my last oil change, walmart was out of mobil 1, so i went to autozone and got my jug. i put in the lucas, pour the mobil 1 down to the point that i have a quart left, check my dipstick, and nothing is there......
i freaked out for about a half hour thinking a seal from the jug fell in there and pluged something up, i just didnt know what, and not wanting to add TOO much oil.
after all this, i finally looked at the jug, and saw the 4 quarts. so actually, i only had 4 qts in there. i poured the rest of the jug in there, and i was right on the full line, like it should be.

Walmarts shelf is about empty of any mobil 1 oil, of any grade, except for the "green" friendly oil, or something.... there is a little sign under all the empty shelves from exon mobil saying that due to hurricane Ike, production had slowed, and to be looking for mobil 1 oil back on the shelves very soon.
I hope! and i hope the price goes back to 21 bucks for FIVE quarts, instead of this 26 for 4qts.

I do think its odd that we only have a 1 quart tollerance on our dipstick. i check my oil regularly, but i admit, i have pulled the dipstick out, and seen no oil on it and about had a cow, and add a quart, and im back to the full mark. My heart would appreciate a dipstick that would give me about another quarts worth of information.....lol when i see no oil on the dipstick, i automaticlly think i have NO OIL!!!! not just a quart low.

[Solitude]

Hey Bart, Is this the first oil change/pcv change since your little excursion into the mud hell you got stuck in? sometimes the difference in engine usage (and I think being stuck is different... might have caused the spooge)..might cause a little blow-by

just a thought from left field.

Peace
Jeff

[Triathlete]

I get my mobil1 at Cosco...6 quarts $26...and every once in a while they throw a $4 off coupon out there!