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Aug 14th, 2006, 18:38 | #21 | |
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yes gary, i have heard good reports but my prefered choice is 5w/40 halfords own, purley because it has always worked well for me, i do a lot of miles and it has never let me down...
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the bottom line is any oil of the correct spec from any big name is going to be fine just remember depending how fussy you are that not all full syns are actually that at all, many such as halfords are actually dino based oil and not a true synthetic, a legal loophole allows them to describe it as synthetic ( in fact mobil have been fighting this one in the courts for a while now as there mobil 1 is one of the few along with shell helix which is a true synthetic) i use valvoline synpower which is a great oil but again strictly speaking not a true synthetic, however i think the differences bewtween the pure syns and the others is very small, both perform way above most cars needs
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is the halfords stuff the best bang for buck so to speak (bearing in mind i will be buying in uk) |
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Chow thinks i'm talking crap, hey i've only been selling engine oils for 18 years, so what do i know!!
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Aug 16th, 2006, 11:36 | #28 |
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have been looking at shell helix and mobil 1 and only the shell helix ultra seems to be fully synthetic and is 5w 40, shell helix plus is semi and is 10w 40.
the only mobil 1 i could find was 15w 50 which was extended performance. so do i have to use semi synthetic? cheers + sorry for being a bit of a pain |
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sorry to have upset you, but just because you flog oil doesnt mean you know anything about it, you clearly dont, im sorry but your post was rubbish, no offence meant
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Aug 16th, 2006, 12:26 | #30 |
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no there isnt im afraid, however in the real world i would not worry to much about it, for example valvoline synpower which is a not a true synthetic strictly speaking, performs almost as well as that benchmark oil, mobil 1, as for halfords im sure it also will be an excellent oil and as you change it at very short intervals i would not worry at all, incidently some time ago i rebuilt my old 850 t5 motor which expired due to a failed belt tensioner after 180k miles running solely on mineral oil and it showed almost no wear whatsoever in the bores, crank, cams etc which just shows how good even "inferior" mineral oils are these days
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