2 Stroke Oil for Canadians

[steam_mill]

My fellow Canadians, where do you get your oil?<br /><br />With my old boats, I've always gone with Canadian Tire oil when on sale.<br /><br />Regular price is 12.99 for 4 litres (U.S. Gallon).<br /><br />Then there is Shell at Canadian Tire for 21.99 for 4 litres.<br /><br />Then there is Quicksilver for $39.99 for 5 litres.<br /><br />Well I go to the Marina and buy quicksilver for 69.99 for 10 litres.<br /><br />I can't find anything different.<br /><br />Wallyworld only sells litres no large cotainers.<br /><br />Can we as iboats members maybe buy in bulk somehow.<br /><br />comments?

 

[Brew2]

Re: 2 Stroke Oil for Canadians

Hi Steam_mill,<br /><br />Greetings from Calgary. <br /><br />I've been buying Castrol at Wallyworld in 4 litre jugs. If your local Wallyworld doesn't stock it, I'd just ask about it. I bet they would start stocking it for you.<br /><br />Can't recall for sure, but I think it is somewhere in the $18-20 range.<br /><br />Cheers.

 

[steam_mill]

Re: 2 Stroke Oil for Canadians

You are right, Castrol is carried at Wallyworld. Somewhere on this board though it was criticized and so I've kept away from it. <br /><br />Tx.<br /><br />Others?

 

[NOSLEEP]

Re: 2 Stroke Oil for Canadians

To bad steam_mill. Their is nothing wrong with<br />their oil. No better no worse.

 

[alumistar]

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Castrol is perfectly fine. I use it and never had any problems. People said I was crazy for using pennzoil nascar/nhra 85/95 for my lower unit. That was five years ago. Just stay away from the really cheap stuff like Costco oil. I swear they just filter old oil and reseal containers.

 

[dajohnson53]

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Originally posted by steam_mill:<br /> Wallyworld only sells litres no large cotainers.

Hey - don't necessarily avoid it because it's sold in smaller bottles (liters for you, quarts for us in US). I recently saw some Castrol quarts in a local store for around $US2.25 which is a very good price per gallon.

 

[Oldsaltydog]

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Of course, you could just stock up on oil on your way back up north from Florida.

 

[steam_mill]

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That's one of the things that ticks me off is not being able to bring items back from the U.S.<br /><br />I travel to the U.S. frequently for work and pleasure (I'd move to Florida in a heartbeat, I LOVE it there: my employer would move me down there and my wife is a nurse and we both love old people).<br /><br />But you can't fly with many items.<br /><br />I was at O'hare in the fall and I had packed in my suit case a bottle of Sea Foam.<br /><br />After the search, it was taken away for being flammable.<br /><br />I don't think I'll ever get Sea Foam. Called the company many times and now there is a supposed supplier in Canada. Well their retail outlets nearly don't exist and are all out in the boonies. No retail in the major centres.

 

[Oldsaltydog]

Re: 2 Stroke Oil for Canadians

Sorry to hear that.

 

[Paul Moir]

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Is it just our local Canadian Tires that are now stocking Amsoil 2 stroke oil?<br /><br />I've yet to try my local Auto Value for Seafoam. Is Musgrave Ave in the boonies? Fortunetly my local one is 5 min from downtown Hfx.<br /><br />I've pretty much just used the Canadian Tire stuff. But it seems pretty lousy and I think I'll try something different this summer.