Show Price Buying Price Price- Buying of Motor Oil OilA OilA A Risky Venture Trouble the motorist is headed for when he begins shopping around ar- ar around ar around for cheap oil il to put in his en- en engine engine en engine gine crankcase was vividly re- re revealed re revealed revealed by a test made mado recently in Cleveland by National Petroleum Ir News An An investigator for the maga maga- magazine magazine magazine zine visited ten different tire shops vacant lot squatters and other such places offering price cut oils and asked in each ach instance for aquart a aquart aquart quart of SAE viscosity No 40 oil He lie paid prices ranging from from 10 to 17 cents a quart Th The quart samples were taken to toa toa a laboratory and analyzed Only two were found to be as heavy as the grade asked for Six were of about SAE viscosity 30 and two w were e only 20 Two represented d as being Pennsylvania ania Oils proved to tobe tobe tobe be fro from and two others vaguely represented as from western oils proved to be from Gulf Coast crude and of specially specially specially inferior qualities In a similar test at Detroit out o of eleven oils represented as being Pennsylvania only two proved pro on o n I anal Pennsylvania analysis sis to contain any Pennsy Pennsy- oil One was made of poorly y reclaimed crankcase The test brought out also the th I I danger the motorist faces in buy buy- ing buying cheap motor oil oils of damaging his engine by using oils lighter than those required for proper lubrication or of inferior quality Engineers find it difficult to un un- un un wh why motor car operators will 11 take such risks when the cost of oil is one of the least important t items re relatively ely in cost of opera t- t ing operating a n motor vehicle and correct important lubrication one of the most tant points in avoiding expensive repairs 1 |