car oil over my head

[Turbo]

I've been using comma oils for years, changing it every 6000 miles. I can always get it cheapest from my local motor factors, even if you ignore the carriage costs of online retailers!
If you are going to keep the car for a while I would suggest buying it in a 20 or 25l drum, it's a whole lot cheaper - my cars oil is £20 for 5l vs £60 for 25l!

 

[SteScouse]

I've been using comma oils for years, changing it every 6000 miles. I can always get it cheapest from my local motor factors, even if you ignore the carriage costs of online retailers!
If you are going to keep the car for a while I would suggest buying it in a 20 or 25l drum, it's a whole lot cheaper - my cars oil is £20 for 5l vs £60 for 25l!

I used Comma for many years, very good quality. Local factors recently swapped to another supplier tho

Still its good to know local factors, ones that do van deliveries to local garages usually have best stock and prices in my experience. Tho most wont deliver to residential addresses

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I forgot to mention in post #25 that this stuff is fully synthetic as recommended in the 'official' BMW spec.

 

[doubleboost]

I use Royal Purple 5/30 in my own vehicles
I was very hard to convince that it could improve MPG
After being given a free oil change . I had to admit it made a differance
We get 5/30 in 200 litre barrels at work C3 speck

I still buy my own Royal Purple

 

[angellonewolf]

I forgot to mention in post #25 that this stuff is fully synthetic as recommended in the 'official' BMW spec.

last time i went there they only seamed to have 10 40 in stock could be beacuse its a smaller one possably but add the cost of getting to a bigger one and time better to just buy a £20 if i can get delivered

 

[slim_boy_fat]

last time i went there they only seamed to have 10 40 in stock could be beacuse its a smaller one possably but add the cost of getting to a bigger one and time better to just buy a £20 if i can get delivered

They'll just have sold out of the 5W/30W. The 'thicker' 10W/40W is the same size at 4.5 ltrs. $15.99 for the 5W last time I bought mine [a few weeks ago, only]. I sometimes need to buy 2 because my engine [inc filter] calls for 6.5 litres [a 3-litre petrol job] for a refill, so there's always some left over from the 2 containers, nearly enough for the next change...and so on.

 

[skotl]

£28 with a Halfords trade card, if you're near anyone who has one?

 

[timgunn1962]

I'm not sure about the Hyundai oils.

For longlife oils for the VAG engines, there seems to be some sort of additive that monitors the oil condition and allows the management system to flag up when an oil change is "needed". For a high-mileage driver, it can reduce the number of services needed and therefore recoup the excruciating cost of the oil. It gets used in my company Passat.

My understanding is that if you are servicing annually and not doing a high mileage that calls for anything in between the annual services, the special oil is a waste of money.

 

[angellonewolf]

can see my son doing hight miles but if so i can change oil and filter

any hes just some bad news car was in for inner joint and balljoint end as there was some knocking there we known this when we bought the car but had hoped was the joints but also had known at worst the stearing rack i had a look with out taking the covers off bought the inner and ball had a chat to a mate he said do the job for a few beers as ive been busy lately
hes just poped round its the steering rack thats knocking

 

[SteScouse]

For longlife oils for the VAG engines, there seems to be some sort of additive that monitors the oil condition and allows the management system to flag up when an oil change is "needed". /QUOTE]

Those guys at VW sure know their software.....

 

[Pete.]

I'm not sure about the Hyundai oils.

For longlife oils for the VAG engines, there seems to be some sort of additive that monitors the oil condition and allows the management system to flag up when an oil change is "needed". For a high-mileage driver, it can reduce the number of services needed and therefore recoup the excruciating cost of the oil. It gets used in my company Passat.

My understanding is that if you are servicing annually and not doing a high mileage that calls for anything in between the annual services, the special oil is a waste of money.

Going back 3 or 4 years now but when I queried it I was told that WE decided between a choice of oil change schedules on our fleet of VW vans.