Where you absolutely refuse to go the cheap way.
For me its deodorant. Everything else I’ve found but my chosen brand fails me.
Where you absolutely refuse to go the cheap way.
For me its deodorant. Everything else I’ve found but my chosen brand fails me.
Motor oil and oil filter. I only use mobil 1 and their extended life filter.
Edit to add: I don’t know of any shop that will use that oil/filter so I do my own oil changes and even with the “expensive” oil (5 qt. jug from walmart is about $29 and free delivery) it is much cheaper to diy this than have it done.
ETA: Just looked up that price and I was off by $2 so updated it to $29.
I’ll run the cheapest oil I can find but I will only buy Mobile 1 filters. I can’t remember the YouTube video I watched but the conclusion was Mobile 1 were almost the best and Fram are crap.
That is interesting.
It took me a while to land on the mobil 1 filters. I think I was using wix before. Glad to hear they’re good.
I assume you change your oil often? I only do so every 5k with the mobil 1 oil ( extended mileage). That still makes me a bit nervous but no problems. The (haynes?) manual I use says not to go more than 5k even with synthetic.
Edit to add: Those videos where they open the oil filters are really interesting. So much marketing bullshit on the outside and very real differences on the inside.