Mobile 1 0W-40 hits the shelves

[Dave K.]

What's a "Checker"?  I guess we don't have those around here (central PA).
I need 0W-40 for my wife's ML430 as recommended by MB.  And that is all year
'round.  No one around sells it (except the dealer).

Dave K.
'90 CQ

----- Original Message -----
From: "DeWitt Harrison" <Six-Rs at attbi.com>
To: "Quattro List" <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:37 PM
Subject: Mobile 1 0W-40 hits the shelves


> Maybe this has already been posted since this weight
> of Mobile 1 motor oil has been available from the
> manufacturer for quite a while. But, ime, it has not
> been widely available at the usual retail outlets. I just
> now picked up a couple of six-packs at my local Checker.
> The clerk expressed curiosity about it's application
> and said they had started stocking it only a week
> or two ago.
>
> I think 0W-40 is a _great_ winter weight choice for the turbo
> cars. It had always ticked me off that available Mobile 1
> weights jumped from 10W-30 to 15W-50 (a great hot
> weather oil for turbo cars but probably a touch heavy
> for cold temps). I would have been tickled pink if they
> brought out 10W-40. 0W-40 is frosting on the cake.
>
> Cheers,
>
> DeWitt Harrison
> '88 5kcstq
>