Ok, I know, oil thread! But, a little different. If you are like me, you have a wife that says you have too many cars, too many motorcycles, why don't you sell one of them, yada yada yada. She will say you could save money on insurance,maintenance, maybe apply the money saved to get a new couch in the living room that you'll never want to sit on, you get the picture.
Spring is near, things need oil changes, where can you save money?
Easy, I went to a local oil wholesaler. He has some brands he can't sell to the public (like Hondaline) and others that he can (like Redline). Don't go and buy one or two quarts, you have to buy at least a case (that's 12 qts.). His price for 12 qts before taxes is $121.85, that's $10.15 a qt. Bike stores sell the same stuff for $16 a qt, heck, the group III "synthetic" bike oils at Autozone are more.
I got it from Interstate Oil of Sparks, I picked it up in person (I don't think they'll ship) and you can probably go to the Interstate oil in Sacramento to get the same deal.
Otherwise, if you are elsewhere, wouldn't hurt to look up oil dealers in the phone book and see if they can cut you a deal. I prefer a real pao/ester oil to a group III as it is. Compared to Rotella 5-40 at Walmart, Redline 5-40 is about $3 more per quart.
I used to go here all the time for oil for my cars, but then Penzoil and Valvoline and others were offering ridiculous deals with discounts and rebates which made their oil end up costing around $1-$2 a qt. I'd buy the stuff even when I didn't need it because it was so cheap. Seems like those days are long gone
and I won't pay over $10 a qt for a group III "synthetic". Oh, this place also sells Redline auto oil for $106 a case, that's less than $9 a qt- sounds good to me!
