Continuing with the evaluation of costabilizers along with preheated metal stearates to stabilize poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC), pentaerythritol was chosen as a longterm costabilizer. During normal stabilization conditions, the polyol enhances the induction time to degradation but produces large amounts of polyenes. The use of the preheated mixture of metal soaps and preheated ZnSt(2) enhanced even more such times, while preheated CaSt(2) reduced them. The same effect was seen with the beta(-)diketone; and, as in that case, the results seems to be the sum of both separated effects. Evaluations of induction times to degradation, carbonyl formation, visible reflectance, and UV-visible and fluorescence spectroscopic techniques support these findings.