Walmart brand tractor fluids

[Gatorboy]

Does anyone think there is a difference between Advil and Generic Ibuprofen?

With Advil, Tylenol, et al., you are paying a higher price to cover their advertising, packaging, etc.
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[SkyPup]

And if you were being treated for a life threatening infection or cancer, would you be purchasing your drugs from known pharmaceutical corporation or some Mexican, Indian, or Chinese offshore generic "copy" ?

 

[Gatorboy]

And if you were being treated for a life threatening infection or cancer, would you be purchasing your drugs from known pharmaceutical corporation or some Mexican, Indian, or Chinese offshore generic "copy" ?

Probably Indian.

 

[heymack]

To me the privately labeled Costal brand from Advance Auto is fine for the hydraulics in my NH 1720.

Around here the Coastal stuff is manufactured by Warren, the same company supplying WalMart.

This thread reminds me of the gas debates I've seen and read over the years. Some say to buy only name brand gas while others contend "generic" gas is just as good. Having lived in Texas nearly all my life, known many frineds in the business, and had a dad who's worked for oil companies that own refineries, I know for a fact that gas is gas is gas is gas. The only difference is some may contain a separate "additive" package to differentiate it from the others.

 

[SkyPup]

Probably Indian.

They do use higher quality inks in printing the labels on their substandard pharmaceuticals than either China or Mexico, but the inks they use on the counterfeit Romanian imatation chemotherapy drugs are to die for!

 

[art]

Those additive packages are what does cost as with normal refining all oils are the same. The additives are what makes one a good oil over the other. Otherwise all oils might be at or near Walmart price.

 

[joerocker]

Is the additive package THAT important?

Then why isn't it part of the oil spec?

I think it's all marketing hooey... IF the additives ARE imperative (as many of you believe) it would be part of the specification...correct? If they're not (as me and others think) then they're not in the specification and are unneeded...correct? What I'm saying is that the standards for oil increase all the time, SA, SB, SJ, whatever...so with all that increase in the standard, why isn't there an inclusion of somebody's "additive package" if it's THAT good?

Name brand or generic...all the same thing except the profit. As long as it meets the standards. These arguments about Chinese and Indian knockoffs are ludicrous. We're NOT talking about knockoffs or illegal inferior imports, we're talking about American made products, meeting the standards.

If I understand correctly...the difference between dino and synthetic oil is simply this: Dino is crude broken down to become whatever viscosity the oil ends up being. Synthetic is crude broken WAY down and then "built up" to be the thicker oil it ends up being. It's STILL plain old crude turned into oil. Close enough description?

 

[Soundguy]

Probably Indian.

Ya know.. I did a double take on that message. I just happened to have my last quarterly statement from my health ins co.. shows my docotr visits and prescrips for quarter and to dat / year. I do see that I have had plenty of meds that were generic.. and in fact.. only one that was non generic. Looking at the manufacturers of those generics.. I see some of them are offshore companies.

So far my hand and back havn't rotted off./out from infection.. so I'd say the offshore companies that have FDA approval to sell meds to pharmacies here are doing pretty good!!

Soundguy

 

[art]

Not for nothing but the original test for the CD oil test was used for years. It was done using a 1948 vintage cat two cylinder diesel and a run for 48 hours! If it didn't blow up the engine then it meet the spec! I've seen engines run for an hour with no oil!!!!

 

[dberry]

Not for nothing but the original test for the CD oil test was used for years. It was done using a 1948 vintage cat two cylinder diesel and a run for 48 hours! If it didn't blow up the engine then it meet the spec! I've seen engines run for an hour with no oil!!!!

That's a test I'd like to see done with today's oils. Put brand X, Y, Z in a small turbo diesel engine and run it at max load. Count the hours until it siezes up and label the oil with that number. Be interesting to see what oil does what.