Has anyone noticed how much 4 lt of oil is nowadays for the vw engine range,

I mean

I think there is a chap on here (oilman?) who does very good prices for the VW spec oils.....but the P&P pushes the price up a bit so it's best to collect from him or at the shows he attends

And if they left things alone we could still be running on steam fired by coal..

As engine technology moves on, so does the technical requirements of all associated products. So oil is dearer, how often do you buy it? Go back years and yes oil was cheaper, but also more cars leaked the stuff and burnt it to.

Its only £50 (max) for oil over 10-20000 miles, divide it up and compared to fuel its hardly a rip off.

I dont mind the price as long as its unformly thru the industry

but castrol charge far more just because of its name not because its better than anyone elses.

And they give only high priced options for cars in there oil books

Eg a 1983 toyota starlet 1.3 they now recommend 0w30 edge, i mean it will spit that out the exhaust quicker than you put it in, even with new technologies

False or flawed information from a company as big as that is very poor indeed

i mean they've been making the black stuff for a 100 years

On another note Halfords buy direct from castrol and pay no more than £20 max

for there top oil so £28 of instant profit minimum that sucks

(before you ask my work buys oil so i know from the reps how much they roughly pay)

I doubt whether Halfords badged oil is identical in every aspect in comparsion to the Castrol branded stuff, after all there are only so many oil compainies.

As for cost, my Superb is variable servicing. The fact that the oil is slightly dearer is outweighed considerably by the fact the car needs much less service work and oil changes.

However, as a consumer you are free to put in your engine what you like.....I have heard Fry's "Crisp n dry" is an oil too.

I doubt whether Halfords badged oil is identical in every aspect in comparsion to the Castrol branded stuff, after all there are only so many oil compainies.

Think the reference was to the price that Halfords buy their stock of Castrol at, and how much they sell it on for (with roughly a 50% markup on it).

Which, once you take into account the high volumes they buy in, the cost of running and stocking stores, employing staff, liability insurance, transaction handling, stock control systems, and trying to make a profit on top of that is blatantly a rip-off...

Rob.

I think you could put that label on anything not bought from the originating supplier bought the world over. Profits pay wages.

Back to Castrol though, since they were one of the original developers of the long-life oil, and the first to develop it sufficiently for VW, don't you think they should recoup some of the expenditure of the R&D costs?

I think you could put that label on anything not bought from the originating supplier bought the world over. Profits pay wages.

Besides which, there are distributors cheaper than Halfords...as you said, we have freedom to buy the oil we want, and we also have the freedom as to where to buy it from!

Rob.

I think you could put that label on anything not bought from the originating supplier bought the world over. Profits pay wages.

Back to Castrol though' date=' since they were one of the original developers of the long-life oil, and the first to develop it sufficiently for VW, don't you think they should recoup some of the expenditure of the R&D costs?[/quote']

Its castrol brand i was on about, halfords oil is made by esso.

Recoup yes but its been over 5 years and over 3 million vw group engines built

and most likely over 50 million oil changes world wide

I think they recouped it a long time ago and then some

Its castrol brand i was on about' date=' halfords oil is made by esso.

Recoup yes but its been over 5 years and over 3 million vw group engines built

and most likely over 50 million oil changes world wide

I think they recouped it a long time ago and then some[/quote']

But Halfords are'nt the only place you can buy oil.

I know cos i sell oil aswell

I wasnt just picking on halfords but its just easyier too,

my little rant really was about how big oil companies can charge extra just

for a name, and at the same time

change specs they recommend from previous years cars that were so called

oil specific

I know cos i sell oil aswell

Ahhhh, so an auterior motive?

I could say the same about my industry, but it will serve no purpose.

I know cos i sell oil aswell

I wasnt just picking on halfords but its just easyier too' date='

my little rant really was about how big oil companies can [b']charge extra just

for a name[/b], and at the same time

change specs they recommend from previous years cars that were so called

oil specific

Thats why VW and Audi charge more for an equivalant model to that of Skoda, it's all in the name

we will all just have to plod along and have a wee gripe once and a while