Best place for Castrol EDGE Oil is ASDA !!!!!!!!
Discussion
All EDGE products are £35 for 4 Litres - some you need to order on line for free store delivery, so plan ahead.
Whereas Halfords are £47 for the same product. I recently had a bad experience with Halfords and wonder what other PH'ers think of the following scenario:-
Planning ahead for some future inter-main-service oil changes, I bought 5x 4L of EDGE 5W30 oil in the Halfords sale for £37 (reduced from £47) (before I discoverd ASDA clearly!). I chose this oil on advice from Halfords. 0W30 was also £37 (reduced from £47) at the same time.
Some time later, after the 28 day no quibble return period, I discovered my car needs 0W30, not 5W30, confirmed with BMW technical. So Halfords had advised me incorrectly. No problem I thought, both oils were the same price, and both oils are still the same price, albeit returned to the pre-sale £47. So, easy swap you might think - 5x 5w30 back, 5x 0W30 out. But no, they refused - we want £50 more because we are going to credit you at £37 each and re-sale at £47 each. Remember both products have always sold for the same price at the same time.
I was and am disgusted by this. I went all the way to the top, but no cigar. Eventually another vendor did the swap for me, but in the process of looking I discovered ASDA sell the oil at £2 less than Halfords during a sale, so thought I'd pass that info on as ASDA is not a place you would expect to find top end oil.
If anyone wants to change this into a "why do you do extra oil changes debate", my half-penneth is this. Modern oils are designed to last 20,000 miles and in terms of lubrication, they may well do so in most conditions. So more frequent changing is a waste of money, you may cry. But loss of basic lubrication is not the reason I do it. In a diesel car at least, oil goes black very quickly - this is soot from the diesel burn. Soot is a very fine abrasive - probably not going to trouble your big end bearing, but your turbo flies around on a very small bearing, at zillions of rpm in this oil. There are also lots of other toxins to eat away at your (in particular) turbo seals and other oil seals. This all only matters if you intend stretching the car life into 100K plus mileage really. Although, swapping my last car to this regime at 50K improved fuel economy and engine refinement, so there are other side benefits. But in the main, I probably just extended the life of the car for the next buyer as I sold it at 110,000 miles. I intend my next car to reach 200,000, so for me it makes sense. I also tow a caravan which is going to give the oil a hard time.
Whereas Halfords are £47 for the same product. I recently had a bad experience with Halfords and wonder what other PH'ers think of the following scenario:-
Planning ahead for some future inter-main-service oil changes, I bought 5x 4L of EDGE 5W30 oil in the Halfords sale for £37 (reduced from £47) (before I discoverd ASDA clearly!). I chose this oil on advice from Halfords. 0W30 was also £37 (reduced from £47) at the same time.
Some time later, after the 28 day no quibble return period, I discovered my car needs 0W30, not 5W30, confirmed with BMW technical. So Halfords had advised me incorrectly. No problem I thought, both oils were the same price, and both oils are still the same price, albeit returned to the pre-sale £47. So, easy swap you might think - 5x 5w30 back, 5x 0W30 out. But no, they refused - we want £50 more because we are going to credit you at £37 each and re-sale at £47 each. Remember both products have always sold for the same price at the same time.
I was and am disgusted by this. I went all the way to the top, but no cigar. Eventually another vendor did the swap for me, but in the process of looking I discovered ASDA sell the oil at £2 less than Halfords during a sale, so thought I'd pass that info on as ASDA is not a place you would expect to find top end oil.
If anyone wants to change this into a "why do you do extra oil changes debate", my half-penneth is this. Modern oils are designed to last 20,000 miles and in terms of lubrication, they may well do so in most conditions. So more frequent changing is a waste of money, you may cry. But loss of basic lubrication is not the reason I do it. In a diesel car at least, oil goes black very quickly - this is soot from the diesel burn. Soot is a very fine abrasive - probably not going to trouble your big end bearing, but your turbo flies around on a very small bearing, at zillions of rpm in this oil. There are also lots of other toxins to eat away at your (in particular) turbo seals and other oil seals. This all only matters if you intend stretching the car life into 100K plus mileage really. Although, swapping my last car to this regime at 50K improved fuel economy and engine refinement, so there are other side benefits. But in the main, I probably just extended the life of the car for the next buyer as I sold it at 110,000 miles. I intend my next car to reach 200,000, so for me it makes sense. I also tow a caravan which is going to give the oil a hard time.
I guess Halfords have done me a favour then - for years I habiltually waited for the Halfords sale to buy oil; now I know I can get it cheaper than their sale price lots of other places 365 (364 probably!, 363 if you take out Easter Sunday too)
I kept going back there because of some good customer service 30 years ago (yikes I feel OLD) - so they just blew 30 years of loyalty.
I kept going back there because of some good customer service 30 years ago (yikes I feel OLD) - so they just blew 30 years of loyalty.
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