a number of years back I went and bought a filter cutter and rounded up a bunch of different manufactures filters all for the same vehicle and after cutting open the fram filter, swore to never buy a fram filter ever again. many of the quick change places filters used to be made by fram, and...
I went down the the nearest Autozone and 0W20 is getting thin some stuff they have plenty of but it is clear they are getting low, I got the only 5qt jug they had of valvoline advance full synthetic.
it is related unfortunately, the oil used to produce the base stocks come through the straight of Hormuse (sp?) and none is flowing and lubricant oil manufacturers are running out of stock .
it is going to get much worse.
I am not liking what I am seeing from multiple sources, I really don't like the panic buy ups people do when there is a big storm or something and they freak out and buy up everything, but I am going to get oil for this and the next oil change and hope things improve in the next year.
Valvoline is discontinuing the hybrid synthetic oil and extended performance synthetic oil.
advance auto parts list the hybrid at 50% off and autozone has the extended performance 50% off
may be related to the base oil supply crisis, buy it up while you can.