Hammer Time: Extreme Couponing Edition

Steven Lang
by Steven Lang

Last year it was Quaker State. ‘Extreme Durability’ synthetic oil had flopped in the markeplace. A lowering of it’s price to $1.99 a quart plus a $10 mail-in rebate solved that issue for Quaker State. Not any profit there obviously. But oil is dirt cheap to produce and the new marketing campaign promised better returns for all that paid shelf space. Now Valvoline is performing a similar stunt for their ‘VR1 Racing Oil’. Six quarts of synthetic for free after the $50 mailin rebate. Just make sure you keep track of the rebate. Then you can…

Get all the oil filters and air filters you need for a year and change. Some of the best filters out there. Total Cost? About $6. This is how you do it.

Go to the Advance Auto Parts website. Pick up two Purolator Pure One Oil Filters, Two Purolator Air Filters, and a Bosch Distance Plus Oil Filter. When you get ready to check out, type in BIG25 for the promotion code. That will automatically get you $25 off your order of $60. You can then get $24 off the Purolator products with this rebate, and $5 off the Bosch filter with this rebate. Arrange to pick up at the store and your total cost will be around $6.

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  • Wagon Of Fury Wagon Of Fury on May 24, 2011

    Advance does not appear to carry the Bosch Distance Plus, at least not in my neck of the woods.

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    • Wagon Of Fury Wagon Of Fury on May 24, 2011

      @Steven Lang Interesting tactic. Thank you !

  • Scottdb Scottdb on May 25, 2011

    "Arrange to pick up at the store and your total cost will be around $6." Ah, nope. The drive from Anchorage would add at least $1500 to that cost.

  • Nikita Nikita on May 25, 2011

    While I dont know additive prices, the base oil doesnt cost that much. Group II parafinnic (modern conventional) costs about 4.50 a gallon in the most common viscosity and Group III (synthetic) about $6 a gallon. Like soda pop, most of the retail price is advertising and promotion, not ingredients. $8 a quart for name brand synthetics does not mean it costs twice as much to make as $4 name brand conventional.

  • Tekdemon Tekdemon on May 25, 2011

    Strange, the PureONE and classic filters are priced the same for me but the PureONE's are out of stock everywhere. Very odd.

    • Steven Lang Steven Lang on May 25, 2011

      They will stock them at their warehouse. Look at my response to Wagon of Fury above. That should enable you to get those filters.

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