Oil change cheap

mr_accountant

bootman wrote:

Can I ask where the voucher can be found?

Many thanks.

they have sent me one by post, probably because i used them for an oil change last time.

Quinny_2

Took me about 25 minutes the other day to change the oil on my 406 HDi,and that included taking the undertray off,(6 of the 8 x 10mm bolts.) and putting it back on,so yes,it can be done fairly quickly if you know what your doing.

Ken.

RugbyPete

Duckhams??? Do they still make that crap?? Gees, you're living in the 80's DONT DO IT. I still remember the grey gunk it used to form on my oil filler cap.

Get down asda, havoline semi synth for £15, halfords or other for filter, job done and well done.

Dont mess with rubbish oil, its false economy - i dont mean go get mobil 1 (that stuffs ironically been on both cars that had engine damage!) or other fully synth and change every 3k, but go get a good middle road oil, i have never had a car running on part dino part synth fail me, my dad used castrol until his audi 80 sold with 360,000 on the clock, one engine. I have however had engines start smoking due to rubbish oil (and supposedly ace oil).
This time around I chose a nice silkolene ethel ester semi synthetic from opie oils, and genuine filter. I hit a snag when i sheered the sump plug (Cost me £33 to fix! doh) off but the car feels so much better after this oil change, and I know its good stuff in there (even if it did come to £60 after all the fuss).

Duckhams, haha! I even remember the adverts lol:rotfl:

Doodles22

I went to main dealer Ford for mine, quite cheap to be fair.

£35 incl VAT and that was a branded filter and oil

anewman

Quinny wrote: »

,and that included taking the undertray off,

Don't bother unless you need to to access the sump bolt. The oil will stop it rusting

molerat

im_great wrote: »

is it a local motor factors?

what make is the oil

what specifiations does it meet

As this thread is 3 years old he probably can't remember :rolleyes:

Inactive

molerat wrote: »

As this thread is 3 years old he probably can't remember :rolleyes:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Nice one.;)

david39

To RugbyPete

Yes, there was grey deposit on the filler caps of cars in the last century that used Duckhams oil (and many other well known brands).

Oil has many functions in an engine beside lubrication. One of them is to collect the water vapour that forms in engines through condensation when they cool down. This would normally get deposited anywhere around the engine but a good oil will carry it round and deposit it at the coolest place in the engine - on the underside of the filler cap, where it can do no harm.
This is the grey, emulsified deposit, to which you refer, and it showed that the oil was doing one of jobs for which it was intended.

Modern engines have a different filling design and so you do not normally see this deposit now.

Duckhams was a good oil from a long established small Birmingham-based company. With the advent of the Mini car, the oil became widely known because Duckhams produced 20w/50 (thicker than average) grade especially for that car to try to reduce the amount of leakage from the poor engine design. If you owned a mini, you needed a 20/50 as it lasted longer.

At the end of the last century, Duckhams was bought by BP, and Castrol, so that BP at that time, along with their own brand, had the lion's share of the retail oil-replacement market.

Codman

I was wondering only just the other day what happened to Duckhams Oil. I always used to use it and never had a problem. My Uncle used it in his Formula Ford racing car and after doing a couple of laps of Brands Hatch Indy circuit after un-knowingly loosing all the engine oil after a shunt, the engine was still ok, the remaining coating of the Duckhams managing to protect the engine.

anewman

Codman wrote: »

after un-knowingly loosing all the engine oil after a shunt, the engine was still ok

All oils do pretty much the same until eventually the heat isn't distributed and parts melt. Some conmen use this ability to "prove" snake oil additives "work", and people are surprised to see the engine run so long without oil.