Thanks for clearing that up. I learn something new everyday.
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Thanks for clearing that up. I learn something new everyday.
I use Royal Purple 5W30 Fully synthetic oil, pretty pricey but great oil.
Royal Purple 10W - 40
Hey guys, I'm looking at trying another brand of oil, because I'm over paying $90 for oil lol.
Thinking about Fully Synthetic:
- Mobil 1
- Nulon
both around 10w-30/40 whatever they come in. Any reccommendations on which one to choose over the other???
I'd have a look at Penrite HPR 5, which is a 5W-30 specially developed for modern variable valve timing engines.
Penrite do formulate good oils.
Ive used Nulon 10w-40 for my last oil change a couple on months ago. Great oil, just bought another 6L bottle two days ago. Has anyone ever used Wynns Engine Flush? I know a few mechanics use this to rid the gunk build up in the engine. Wondering if it would do any damage to ours...
I use a highly detergent diesel oil to flush out my ordinary engines. I usually run it for a thousand Km or so.
I have a highly tuned 4.6L rover V8 in a TR8. These are rather dirty engines which get a lot of carbon residue in their oil. I had been using Penrite HPR 5 in it, [5W-30high performance] & was happy with it, apart from the carbon on the inside of the rocker cover.
Penrite suggested HPR diesel 5, which is basically the same oil, with only more highly detergent.
After a couple of changes of that, you could use the rocker cover to shave, it's that clean.
I'd rather use a quality oil to flush my high performance engine, than something else, but that's possibly just me being paranoid.
So would there be any harm in just using the Wynns engine flush product?
A dlai, Ive also used mobile 1 and found that it burnt quite quickly. Same with a few other users too. Nulon does seem to last longer though. However, I do an oil change every 3 mths/2500k's anyways because I have nothing but time..lol
What diff and trans oil you guys using?
Jooboo, for transmission I'm using honda MTF because my gearbox still feels pretty good. But I'm going with castrol saf-xa for the diff again, because I used it first my 4.77FD was quiet, changed to OEM after 1000kms and it started whining like crazy.
royal purple for the engine, went to hanny's and they replaced my diff with elf. My tranny has redline and it works a charm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgxZKbkaD24Quote:
Originally Posted by s2kjn
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Take from that what you will, but it has definately put me off even thinking about using these kinds of products.
Interesting..
So after reading ABSOULUTLY EVERYTHING, ive come to the conclusion as a noob poster that these following are the ones too look out for:
- Motul 8100 Xcess 5w-40
- Mobile 1 10-30
- Nulon 10w-40
- Royal Purple 10w-40
Gonna buy some oil tomorrow, anyone wanna rank which ones better?
After all the bitching I've had, I'm just gonna stick with Royal Purple 10W-40, because it serves me well! My car barely burns it out/off (whatevs lol). Also I found it for cheaper than my usual.
As the recommended viscosity of oil is roughly 10w-30.
Do people here sway more to 10w-40 during summer when it can get up to 40 degrees at times
It doesn't really matter. Buy based upon your engine. If it is burning then thicker viscosity. Whatever works for you!
also depends on your budget, royal, motul and mobil are all over $80 where the Nulon is like $35Quote:
Originally Posted by Newtype
im trying a different one until I find one which suits. I have run;
•*Honda FEO 10w 30 - need to top up each 2500km interval
•*Castrol Gold synthetic 0w 40 - better but top up around 3500kms
•*going to try Mobil 1 0w 40 next time
Quick question.. I just serviced my car and use Castrol Edge Sports 5-30w, however Castrol don't stock Sports anymore so it's no Castrol Edge Titanium 5-30w. Do you think it would be okay to top up with Castrol Edge Titanium?
Don't see a problem in doing that..? I did it to both my DC2 Integra and E92 BMW. Works out well when both cars use the same viscosity :D
Cool.. thanks.. the new Castrol Titanium is bloody expensive though.. $70 for 5L.. both the Sports and Titanium have "fully synthetic" labeled on the bottles as well so I assume it would be ok.
Yeah, I guess its cause the titanium now has the shiny new labelling that says its BMW Longlife-01 approved, hehe
I use genuine Honda FEO Synth, seems to be fine.