Re: Changing Oil brands????

Posted by JD Seller on December 03, 2017 at 09:13:40 from (208.126.196.24):

In Reply to: Re: Changing Oil brands???? posted by coonie minnie on December 02, 2017 at 19:33:55:

Coonie Minnie: I had been running ALL JD oil in everything we owned for over 25 years. After the local dealer decided to screw with me on things I am looking long and hard at all purchases that involve him and JD COMPANY. JD COMPANY is driving this dealer chain BS and it is time for the farmers to make their opinions known on it.

I am adding to this statement with the local dealer. Last calendar year we did over $85K in parts alone and $10k in oil.(Son's repair shop and the farms included) Since he decided that our thirty day account was not good anymore I decided his store was not good for our business. We have not spent one single dime there since. Add in his closing the store in Cascade and he is not on any former Cascade customer favorite list. I kind of knew who his larger Cascade Parts customer where. We got together and pooled our business. We took bids from two other JD dealerships that where within driving distance. We now get weekly deliveries from one of them with a pretty good discount when we keep the orders above a certain dollar amount.

On top of that we are buying fewer JD parts. If it can be found from other suppliers for an equal or lower price we are going that way. My Daughter-in-law is our book keeper. She researches all parts purchases that are not emergency needed. She is finding lots of OEM parts online from none dealer sources. She figures she has already saved over $4K this quarter.

For the shop and farms we are switching to Rotella 15w40 oil. We can buy it cheaper in 55 gallon drums at Sam's right now. We are getting 8 this next week. They ordered them in for us. My son is getting bulk oil for the gas engines in his repair business. The bulk Rotella was higher prices than the drums we are getting. Plus we are setup for drums on pump dollies. Service truck too.

So that just left my personal vehicles oil. The wife and I do not drive enough to really need that much oil. I did not want to fool with filling containers out of the son's bulk oil. The two cars, SUV, and my gas pickup all use 5 qts. per change. So I wanted the convenience of the 5 qt. containers.

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• Re: Changing Oil brands???? coonie minnie 18:01:43 12/03/17 (0)

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