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| Author: | grumpy [ Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:28 pm ] |
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I went to buy some oil for top-ups as the last dregs from last service were used up last week. I need to use PD diesel, fully synthetic, I was told, no probs says I. Local car shop £19.99 for a litre  Local motor factors £30 for 4.5 litres.  I'm all for helping the wee businesses, but there's a limit.
Any one know if it's available at a lesser cost? BTW the car's a Skoda with just under 50k on it, so the warranty is still in place, hence the need to keep it right. |
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| Author: | Doom [ Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:34 pm ] |
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Yes, don't buy into the PD mystery, use any good quality 0-30 5-30 oil, or if you have to abide by VW rules they sell a semi synthetic one for just over £20 but it isn't longlife. And be warned mixing semi and fully isn't always kind to rubber seals. |
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| Author: | Fae Fife [ Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: OIL |
grumpy wrote: I went to buy some oil for top-ups as the last dregs from last service were used up last week. I need to use PD diesel, fully synthetic, I was told, no probs says I. Local car shop £19.99 for a litre
Local motor factors £30 for 4.5 litres. I'm all for helping the wee businesses, but there's a limit.Is it the VW 507.00 spec you mean? (5W-30 fully synth?) VW sell the Castrol stuff for around £15 for a litre, so £20 is way OTT. £30 for 4.5 litres sounds pretty good. For top ups Halfords it in 2 litres for £20, which is about the cheapest. Not sure how much their bigger containers are, but I think it comes in 5 litre packs so there's enough to top up between services, so to that extent good value. Assuming the oil is good enough 
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| Author: | v33tra [ Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:27 pm ] |
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nearly every independant garage round our way buys in vauxhalls fully synthetic or semi synthetic oil for servicing as the deal they do is outstanding,i have used this oil deal for years with my cars however these are trade club deals so you need to apply for a free trade club card at your local vauxhall dealer,they do accept taxi drivers current prices for 5 litre cans are ( buy 3 cans get 1 free deal ) Longlife Super fully synthetic 5W30 5 litre part number 93165212 Offer price for four cans £48.87 Equivalent to £2.44/litre Semi synthetic 10W40 5 litre part number 93165216 Offer price for four cans £32.67 Equivalent to £1.63/litre also available cheaper in bulk if you buy the larger drums of oil 205 litres Semi synthetic oil for only £254.79 £1.24 per litre Semi synthetic oil 205 litre Part Number 90544108 |
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| Author: | Doom [ Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:28 pm ] |
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v33tra wrote: nearly every independant garage round our way buys in vauxhalls fully synthetic or semi synthetic oil for servicing as the deal they do is outstanding,i have used this oil deal for years with my cars
however these are trade club deals so you need to apply for a free trade club card at your local vauxhall dealer,they do accept taxi drivers current prices for 5 litre cans are ( buy 3 cans get 1 free deal ) Longlife Super fully synthetic 5W30 5 litre part number 93165212 Offer price for four cans £48.87 Equivalent to £2.44/litre Semi synthetic 10W40 5 litre part number 93165216 Offer price for four cans £32.67 Equivalent to £1.63/litre also available cheaper in bulk if you buy the larger drums of oil 205 litres Semi synthetic oil for only £254.79 £1.24 per litre Semi synthetic oil 205 litre Part Number 90544108 Great deal isn't it, and don't worry about it messing the engine up, the 5-30 goes in everything, and I know a lad in Ireland who fleet uses it in VW cars, not cabs, and 200k without any trouble at all, added to that the trade card takes it down from £55 for 5 litres to around £23, and as said if you buy 3 you get 4 for the same price, appy dayz. |
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| Author: | v33tra [ Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:24 am ] |
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i have run several vectra diesels on this oil over the years to mileages in excess of 350,000 without any engine wear issues,good stuff and very cheap 
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| Author: | Nigel [ Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:10 am ] |
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grumpy wrote: I went to buy some oil for top-ups as the last dregs from last service were used up last week. I need to use PD diesel, fully synthetic, I was told, no probs says I. Local car shop £19.99 for a litre
Local motor factors £30 for 4.5 litres. I'm all for helping the wee businesses, but there's a limit.Any one know if it's available at a lesser cost? BTW the car's a Skoda with just under 50k on it, so the warranty is still in place, hence the need to keep it right. Steer clear of cheap oil guys, this cheap oil can damage your engine big time. We have a company round our way called Hall and Campy, they collect the waste oil from the garages and refine it then sell it back on to the trade. |
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| Author: | grumpy [ Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:44 am ] |
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the brand was comma, ok it's not castrol or shell etc, but afaik it's a reputable enough company http://www.commaoil.com/ it was the PD 5w-40 (performance range) I purchased, (as used by one of the big two taxi firms in falkirk) |
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| Author: | skippy41 [ Wed Jun 03, 2009 11:02 am ] |
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You can get comma from the motor factor's, or failing that you can get 5 litres from halfords Change your oil every 10K regardless of if you have the extended service intervals, especially if you have the 2 litre 140 TDI as the turbo is the weak link http://briskoda.net/technical-guides/oi ... ere/22016/ |
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| Author: | Fae Fife [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:24 am ] |
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grumpy wrote: the brand was comma, ok it's not castrol or shell etc, but afaik it's a reputable enough company
http://www.commaoil.com/ it was the PD 5w-40 (performance range) I purchased, (as used by one of the big two taxi firms in falkirk) Allan, please note that it was the long-life oil I was talking about, Comma do a different oil for that: http://www.commaoil.com/Product%20Pages ... rolife.htm I think the price you were quoted for the 4/5 litres was OK, but you should be able to do better than £20 for the litre. I suspect Halfords own brand is about as cheap as you'll find readily available, but whether or not it's as good as the other brands I don't know. |
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| Author: | grumpy [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:18 am ] |
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Fae Fife wrote: Allan, please note that it was the long-life oil I was talking about, Comma do a different oil for that: http://www.commaoil.com/Product%20Pages ... rolife.htm I was offered that initially, but I get my car serviced every 10k, so decided to go with the £30 one. FYI the prolife is £47.16 for 4.5L at the factors. |
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| Author: | skippy41 [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:45 pm ] |
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http://www.wilcodirect.co.uk/index.php? ... &cPath=233 |
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| Author: | toots [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:18 pm ] |
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This may come as a shock to some people, but, I don't think I've ever put oil in a car and I certainly have never had to buy any other than the sort for cooking 
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