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The price comparison tilts to mineral based lub. 900 1991

posted by  Velan on  Thu Apr 4 18:14 CST 2002
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Hi Riverol,

Thanks for the comments. After reading all the responses, I was encouraged to use synthetic wherever I can but the prices of synthetics discourages the consumer from using them. For e.g I am servicing lub. on my car at every 8,000km intervals. The cost of the mineral based lub is $24 (local currency value)for 4 litres. I went around to hunt for Mobil-1 systhetic lub. and the average price is $130.00 for the same 4 litres. If using synthetic will only double the milage of service i.e. 15,000km, then economically it is not good to switch to synthetic because with $130.00 I can stretch the services to 5 lub. changes at the same intervals of 8,000km rather than spending $130 for a single service that covers 15,000km.

However, I will use synthetic on the auto trans and power steering as they are relatively cheap, about $36 for 4 litres.

Is the Mobil -1 synthetic cheaper in U.S compared to mineral based? It seems any synthetic lub are astromical in value over this part of the world. Thanks


velan
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.





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