Update: This popular deal is still available.
Sam's Club has for
New Members: 1-Year Sam's Club Membership on sale for
$20.
Sam's Club also has for
New Members: 1-Year Sam's Club Plus Membership on sale for
$60.
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Note: You must join as a new Sam's Club member through the links above for the offer.
Membership Details:
- Club Membership:
- Second membership card complimentary for someone in your household.
- Members-only fuel savings: Pay less at the pump at select locations.
- Free Curbside Pickup on eligible $50+ orders
- Add-on memberships: Extra Club memberships for only $45.
- Bonus Offers: Earn Sam's Cash outside the club with offers on dining, shopping & more.
- Plus Membership:
- 2% Sam's Cash in club on qualifying purchases, up to $500/year.
- Free Delivery from Club on eligible $50 orders. Select same-day (order by 1pm) or next-day service.
- Free Shipping on eligible $50 orders.
- Early Shopping: Get in before the crowds. Hours may vary by club.
- $0 prescriptions on 10 select generic medications, plus over 600 generics starting at $4.
- Extra optical savings: Buy one pair, get 40% off additional pairs.
- 50% off tire installation.
- Annual $60 Sam's Club eGift Card with T-Mobile with new line activation and phone purchase on eligible plan.
- Second membership card is complimentary for someone in your household.
- Members-only fuel savings: Pay less at the pump at select locations.
- Free Curbside Pickup
- Add-on memberships: Extra Club memberships for only $45.
- Bonus Offers: Earn Sam's Cash outside the club with offers on dining, shopping & more.
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Costco is just too crowded for comfort. First parking is a pain and then you have to navigate your cart through hordes. And then finally check out lines are huge. It's just crazy. Sam's club has fewer people and so shopping is MUCH faster. And scan and go is awesome. My wife just refuses to step into Costco now. We figured $20 extra per year for Sam's Club is worth the peace of mind.
We'll probably still keep Costco. $60 is a lot but even one big ticket item a year makes up for it. So we'll keep Costco for major purchases and online ordering. Overall 'deals' are definitely better at Costco. But we'll use Sam's club for regular weekend groceries. Like I said, $20 extra just to avoid the crazy Costco rush is worth it.
All three Costcos around us are a zoo. The Scan & Go at Sam's is amazing, I can't believe anyone puts up with lines. And a hill that I will die on is that Costco's food sucks compares to Sam's. We have been to all three; my kids hate their pizza and their hot dogs suck (and no sauerkraut!). Froyo is twice as much as Sam's (and it's the same stuff). I don't think you can order food from the Costco app like you can with Sam's; it's nice to just walk up and get my food without waiting in line.
I just don't get the Costco cult following. Like most places, you only save money on some things and they make it up on overpricing others. Their return policy is generous, I'll give them that, but so was REI's before it was abused enough that they had to crack down on it.
Quick note: Costco has gone up to $65 for their standard membership, so it's no longer $60.
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Email address you've never used before
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Worked for me.
Costco always seems to be super busy no matter when (and forget about getting gas unless it's 2pm on a Tuesday), with crazy parking lot and long lines. But it's a nicer experience inside. Employees are friendly. The customer frenzy and horrible parking lots make me nuts.
Sams, don't usually have to wait for gas, and not usually busy if you don't go on a Saturday. But not as nice experience inside, and the employees seem to not give a sh!t about you and your needs. Oh but the random (non Sam's) salespeople inside every 200 feet wanting to sell you something like electricity or a different insurance or cell phone plan etc etc etc.
So flip a coin. I go with whatever I can get a deal on from year to year, and honestly Costco membership deals seem to have faded off over the years. Don't trick yourself into thinking one company is evil vs another.... they are both big box mass sellers.
Costco is just too crowded for comfort. First parking is a pain and then you have to navigate your cart through hordes. And then finally check out lines are huge. It's just crazy. Sam's club has fewer people and so shopping is MUCH faster. And scan and go is awesome. My wife just refuses to step into Costco now. We figured $20 extra per year for Sam's Club is worth the peace of mind.
We'll probably still keep Costco. $60 is a lot but even one big ticket item a year makes up for it. So we'll keep Costco for major purchases and online ordering. Overall 'deals' are definitely better at Costco. But we'll use Sam's club for regular weekend groceries. Like I said, $20 extra just to avoid the crazy Costco rush is worth it.
Has anyone published the type and amount of detergent needed to qualify for top tier fuel? The correct answer in NO!
Has anyone published the type and amount of detergent needed to qualify for top tier fuel? The correct answer in NO!
However studies done by AAA on carbon buildup/gasoline say otherwise.
Here are the quotes, "For the test, an independent engine testing lab that specializes in fuel analysis operated an engine continuously for 100 hours on a cycle to represent 4,000 real miles of use. The engine was then disassembled and photographed, and its key components were weighed and measured to determine the thickness of carbon deposits. Six fuels were used, randomly selected and split among three basic gasoline sources and three Top Tier.
Intake valve comparison showing a new valve compared with valves after a 100-hour engine test.
The results showed that, on average, non-Top Tier gasoline had 19 times more carbon deposits on injectors, on intake valves, and in the combustion chamber than Top Tier gasoline had.
AAA also found that Top Tier gasoline can have a cleansing effect, reducing intake valve deposits by 45 to 72 percent when used over a 5,000-mile interval. Variation in the results is attributed to the detergents used by different brands."
90s and early 2000 Toyotas were built like tanks and many people have tried to detroy them by abusing but failed.
I don't drive those so I will just stick to the top tier for few cents/gallon more.
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However studies done by AAA on carbon buildup/gasoline say otherwise.
Here are the quotes, "For the test, an independent engine testing lab that specializes in fuel analysis operated an engine continuously for 100 hours on a cycle to represent 4,000 real miles of use. The engine was then disassembled and photographed, and its key components were weighed and measured to determine the thickness of carbon deposits. Six fuels were used, randomly selected and split among three basic gasoline sources and three Top Tier.
Intake valve comparison showing a new valve compared with valves after a 100-hour engine test.
The results showed that, on average, non-Top Tier gasoline had 19 times more carbon deposits on injectors, on intake valves, and in the combustion chamber than Top Tier gasoline had.
AAA also found that Top Tier gasoline can have a cleansing effect, reducing intake valve deposits by 45 to 72 percent when used over a 5,000-mile interval. Variation in the results is attributed to the detergents used by different brands."
90s and early 2000 Toyotas were built like tanks and many people have tried to detroy them by abusing but failed.
I don't drive those so I will just stick to the top tier for few cents/gallon more.
To scientifically prove the effectiveness of top tier fuel, one must control the type and concentration of detergent used over 100K miles of real world use, Again, no one has published the type and concentration of detergent needed to qualify for top tier status.
To scientifically prove the effectiveness of top tier fuel, one must control the type and concentration of detergent used over 100K miles of real world use, Again, no one has published the type and concentration of detergent needed to qualify for top tier status.
You obviously don't know much about the theory of operation of a 4 stroke gasoline engine. All of my cars have more than 150K miles with a steady diet of clean 87 octane gas (mostly Sams because of low price). None have exhibited fuel related issues.
More current information about engine carbon deposit,,,
Automotive technology is rapidly changing and so must induction cleaning systems. Cleaning methods are outdated because they were not specifically designed to deliver cleaning chemistries into the modern automotive engine. Additionally cleaning chemistries are outdated because modern fuels and oils have been re-engineered thus altering the chemical nature of the carbon deposit. Virtually all off-the-shelf products were designed based on their ability to remove laboratory produced Rapid Carbon Accumulation ("RCA") carbon instead of real types of carbon deposits that form in every day real-world vehicles. This Industry standardized carbon deposit uses a special fuel base that is never actually used for road driving. The purpose of RCA is to generate the same carbon thickness and carbon volume in 5,000 miles, based on the use of dynamometer testing (not on road operation) that a road vehicle engine will generate in 100,000 miles of actual driving. Therefore the structure of the carbon deposit generated in the RCA method is not the same as that generated in road vehicle engines. First, there is the difference in fuel; the special RCA fuel base vs the different commercially available fuels which vary with manufacturer, region of country where they are dispensed, and time of the year (in some states up to 10% of the gasoline is ethanol in winter months). The second difference is that in road use the carbon deposits are only partially created by the fuel, whereas the RCA carbon is mainly comprised of the fuel. In road vehicles a large amount of the induction system carbon deposit is created from the engine oil that is taken in through the Positive Crankcase Ventilation ("PCV") system. Additionally, the Exhaust Gas Recirculation ("EGR") system (whether external of internal) allows burned exhaust gases to re-enter the induction system, further contributing to the carbon deposit composition within the induction system. The PCV and the EGR contributed carbon deposits will take many thousands of road miles to accumulate within the induction system. These types of carbon deposits are not typically generated via RCA. Yet another difference between RCA carbon deposits and road vehicle carbon deposits is that RCA carbon deposits do not have the same thermal soak cycles or soak times as a high mileage road vehicle would have.
Once a test engine has been run under controlled laboratory conditions with the RCA fuel and has enough carbon build up, a mixture of known chemicals (i.e.,a solution) is then formulated to remove or try to remove these RCA carbon deposits. Thus, even if the developed solution can remove at least some of the RCA carbon deposit, it may not work to effectively remove real world carbon deposits.
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Based on the explanation above, it is clear that most carbon deposits come from the PCV and EGR. Toyota, uses a combination of direct and port fuel injections to ensure that the air/gasoline mixture passes thru the intake manifold. Buy a borescope to compare the throttle body-to-port fuel injector area vs fuel injector-to-intake valve area. The latter region is virtually deposit free, even with non top tier gasoline.
Name you enter doesnt matter
Address, use one whatever address (then change it after account is created)
Phone number doesn't matter
Email address you've never used before
Credit card you've never used at Sam's before
Worked for me.
How about you run your own real world road tests with post 2015 manufactured cars and then take engines apart to see if there are differences or not?
By the way, the Top tier gasoline standards were never created by Gas companies. Ten major Automakers including Toyota during 90s came up with it because they were pissed off by how cheap gasoline could damage or wear out their car engines prematurely. I suppose you know about cars better than those Automakers. You should tell them which fuel to use.
Again, how gas companies like Chevron or Shell comes up with some BS marketing names are irrelevant.
AAA also did tests on changes in Octane rating in 2017 and there was no significant performance difference for average non high performance vehicles however that is also irrelevant.
I usually follow manufacturers guideline whether its electronics or cars. I will continue to use the top tier because that's what the car manufactures recommend not because gas companies came up with some BS marketing name scheme. Besides my local Costco gas ( top-tier ) price is actually cheaper than local Sam' s ( non top-tier ).
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Costco is just too crowded for comfort. First parking is a pain and then you have to navigate your cart through hordes. And then finally check out lines are huge. It's just crazy. Sam's club has fewer people and so shopping is MUCH faster. And scan and go is awesome. My wife just refuses to step into Costco now. We figured $20 extra per year for Sam's Club is worth the peace of mind.
We'll probably still keep Costco. $60 is a lot but even one big ticket item a year makes up for it. So we'll keep Costco for major purchases and online ordering. Overall 'deals' are definitely better at Costco. But we'll use Sam's club for regular weekend groceries. Like I said, $20 extra just to avoid the crazy Costco rush is worth it.
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