Found this on the Triumph forum, these guys were having the same conversation:
Hi all.....
This is Westway Lubricants here based in Wombourne UK.
Just want to leave this little statement here....
We NEVER have or NEVER will sell oils that have been formulated using recycled oils. I'ts a false economy....the process of trying to regenerate used oil into new oil costs more than simply using virgin base oils.
You can tell our oils are new by the light colour they are when pouring them, they also do not smell like a used engine oil.
No matter how much you process a used oil it will always be dark, it can't be "filtered" out as this darkness is attributed to the oxidation caused by the combustion process. We are a real British company using only Virgin base oils and additives sourced here in the UK.
The reason why our products are priced so competitively is because we have much lower operating costs to the big brands.
We have no sales reps on the roads, we don't sponsor race teams, we don't spend huge amounts on advertising and marketing, we don't have a chain of distributors all adding their own markup, we simply sell good quality oil at the best prices we can direct to the customer/end user.
We are registered here in the UK and pay UK VAT & Tax....Simples!!
There you go... just thought i'd put this out there as there are a lot of people asking the question.
Thanks guys and if you have purchased from us I thank you very much for your support.
(Moderators please feel free to reach out to us if this post requires editing or goes against your rules, this is not a post to push our wares, it's simply to dispel some inaccurate information here on your site)
The above confirms what I was thinking about paying over the odds for a brand name.
Pete
