Schaeffer Oil?

[Captain Skip]

Anyone using Schaeffer 9000 series full synthetic. I never heard of the brand before but something popped up on one of my feeds and I started doing some research. From what I can find it's supposed to be a better oil than Pennzoil, Mobil 1, Castrol, etc.

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[areuriding]

It's an excellent oil, you may not always be able to find it though. Google blackstone report on that oil.

 

[Captain Skip]

It's an excellent oil, you may not always be able to find it though. Google blackstone report on that oil.

Supposedly NAPA carries it but Amazon has it too. It looks like a couple bucks more than Mobil 1/Pennzoil full synthetic but I keep my vehicles on average 12 years so I want to use the best I can find.

 

[jjvincent]

Dirt track racers swear by it. I grew up in STL and one of the family members was a customer back in the 80's. Small company and is quite popular for industrial lubricants. In the end, having the best of the best and getting lots of blackstones will not help your Jeep in the long run. In the end, the engine will outlast the rest of it (which can be said for many other vehicles). You will spend thousands on worn out suspension parts, coolant system issues, oil leaks (which doesn;t matter what oil you use), brakes, transmission and so on. I see 350K-400K vehicles with people that could care less about engine oil and what ends up being the end of the line for them is that their Jeep (or any other car out there) is old, the paint is toast, the interior is toast and it's rusty. They unload it and thus it ends up in a junkyard where the motor comes out and gets resold while the rest is scrapped.

So, if you think you'll be keeping your Jeep until 2040, then go to town on the oil. As for the rest of us, we just end up buying something else due to that massive bill to fix the rest of the car becomes too much. Case in point, 2006 Hyundai Sonata. 40K on the clock and oil changed with Mobil 1 every 3K since new. Subframe is rusted out, exhaust system is toast, axle boots are torn, two calipers are leaking, evap code, water pump is leaking and it runs too lean (intake runner is cracked thus a new intake manifold). Best part, the motor is like new for the oil lubricated parts. I see the same exact ones suffer the same dilemma but the owners could care less about the oil or the changes. Both vehicles are not even worth fixing in the end.

 

[The Last Cowboy]

There is no magic oil. Use a quality full synthetic. Change it at about 75% on the oil life monitor and use a quality oil filter. I suggest changing the filter with every oil change, but there has been some argument and experimentation here using synthetic fiber filters for up to 20k miles.

Schaeffer is a great oil. So is Mobil1, Pennzoil Platinum, Castrol, even the Walmart Super Tech synthetic is good.

 

[gsbrockman]

A couple of my friends in eastern Kentucky use it in their diesel pickups, semi trucks, and farm equipment. They are very impressed with it. They buy it at a farm store chain called Southern States.

 

[HuskerJL]

Good product, why not use the best if you can.

 

[brynamic]

My local Jeep shop uses Schaefer lubricants. I’ve done my own oil and differential changes so I haven’t used it personally but the owner of the shop swears by them.

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