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What in the world is this??

We were at the Ontario Oregon Walmart yesterday, and I thought I'd pick up a jug or 2 of Power Service Diesel Kleen - until I saw the $15 price tag! :eek: :eek:



How about the truck stops like Flying J - anyone seen their PS prices lately?
 
Gary,

Was that the big(96oz) bottle or the 32oz size? Here in Central Texas it's just under $7. 00 for the little one at Wally's. Haven't checked truck stops.
 
Maybe a little supply and demand going on here. With low sulfer diesel, and maybe more people using additives the price is going up. Oh well the price of diesel ownership I guess; just another expensive item to add to the list!!!
 
It's 15. 86 at Walmart here in the panhandle of Texas.

How about other brands? What do they cost?
 
$14. 99 at Flying J here for the 96 oz, just shy of $6 for the 32 oz. I had a hard time getting it for a little while I guess because everyone started snapping it up when it started to get cold here.
 
My take on the higher prices is because power services did a recall on there product for labeling purposes. My theory is power services didn't restock as much supply so they could jack up the prices.



Last spring I bought enough power services in the white bottle for this winter at $8. 00 a 96 oz jug. :-laf



If the price stays that high next year I'll change to Howe's or something else that costs less unless I can get it cheap in the spring again. :-laf
 
RDyson said:
It's 15. 86 at Walmart here in the panhandle of Texas.

How about other brands? What do they cost?



YUP - if the competing brands aren't that high, might be worth switching brands - I always used PS because of price and easy Walmart availability - might be time to re-think that... :eek: :(
 
$15. bucks at NAPA yesterday - - - I've used the stuff since they had a storgage tank float down the creek in 1981 (played cowboys and tanks that day) in Weatherford Tx. Gusee its time to find something else - - - Hoe is Howes?



Denny
 
It jumped to $15 and some change at Walley World in Columbia, SC also. It was around $11. I don't feel so bad now that I know it went up everywhere.
 
$15. 00 and some change here in ND too.



I used Howes one winter with straight #2 without any problems. It was a little more expensive back then but with power services now at $15. 00 Howes would be cheaper to run.
 
Just picked up a 96er of PS at Cenex in Butte, MT for $13. 99. Howe's was on sale for $8. 99 for a 96er, but I didn't see it till I was walking out the door. :(
 
Softe said:
Just picked up a 96er of PS at Cenex in Butte, MT for $13. 99. Howe's was on sale for $8. 99 for a 96er, but I didn't see it till I was walking out the door. :(



Shucks, I'd have bought a couple of the Howe's just on pure speculation! :D



We only get to a Walmart maybe once a month - Flying J maybe once in 6 months or more - so I usually lay in a supply, as I had intended to do at the above mentioned Walmart visit...



I did manage a great buy last summer on a 2 1/2 gallon jug of PS Fuel Supplement in concentrated form - enough to treat over 3000 gallons of diesel - paid $59 for that - seems like a REAL bargain now! ;) :-laf



That was the first and last of the concentrated PS stuff I had seen. On a side note, I usually use PS Diesel Kleen - it's the best of the PS stuff for lubricity treatment, but not much for cold weather anti-gelling protection.



So Tuesday we headed over to my Dad's in Payette, and hit low temp of right at ZERO degrees over one of the mountain passes between here and Payette. I'm still running on summer blend diesel, and the truck started running a bit rough at the low temp - checked the fuel PSI gauge - ZERO PSI! (usually 16 PSI or better) :eek: :eek:



I pulled over to check things out, suspecting a fuel system freeze up - everything looked physically OK, tried the restart and heard the 2 fuel pumps turning over, and she fired up as fuel PSI sluggishly crept back up near normal. We were nearly at the top of the grade at that point (about 5300 feet), so figured temps would start climbing as we took it easy on the downhill side. Fortunately, I was correct - and the rest of the trip was uneventful. We've been here for 2 years now in eastern Oregon - but that was the coldest temps we or the truck have been exposed to - so that was a learning experience! ;)



Bought a few partial fillups since, using winter fuel - and also dumped in some of that PS fuel supplement concentrate - so I think we are OK down well into sub-zero temps now...
 
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