Engine oil prices - how low does it go?

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For old cars I'm doing oil changes on I normally buy Euro Car Parts own brand TripleQX 10w40 oil - it's about £13 for 5L which is about as cheap as it gets at retail prices

They rang me this morning offering me 20L for £23+VAT - that's pretty much half the price per litre!

Got me wondering, how much do garages pay for those massive drums they use? Pretty sure I've been invoiced some silly £/L amount by a garage as part of a service before

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TooMany2cvs said:

It's called "profit", and it's why the owner of the garage unlocks the door in the morning. So he has a house to go home to that night, with food on the table.

Well aware of how business works thanks - do you need to post such hostile comments on every thread that mentions the motor trade?

Not interested in how much profit who's making.

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AngryPartsBloke said:

When i worked for a main delaer We used to sell 205L drums to trade customers for £195, which was below cost. We'd get a rebate from hitting a target for selling a certin Value of parts from the Franchise we were part of.

Somebody once got in trouble for selling a drum at £205 and making profit on it.

Treating a rebate as your profit margin, No surprise we went down the pan tbh.

So that's probably about as cheap as it gets

Isn't treating rebates as profit margin quite common in new car sales too?

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I don't care where you work - your constant hostility towards anyone that mentions anything related to garages/the trade is tiresome to read.

Accounting practices of main dealers who choose to invoice ridiculous amounts for fluids as part of a service in order to spread the labour charge the customer sees on the bill is what I am referring to - at no point did I mention that I expect a garage to service a car for £1/litre and a packet of crisps - I can do that myself in my own workshop using the oil I bought this morning!