What type of oil?

s_b

asbokid wrote: »

Before the economy burst like a teenager's boil, you could buy 5 litres of ASDA's pond scum oil for £3.28

yes but how many 3 in one empty oil cans have you got:D

soup

I've noticed morrissons 15/40 that was £8.99 for 5L last year is now £9.99 for 4L
Very annoying size and increase.

bigjl

mikey72 wrote: »

I've got a card, I'll have to keep my eye out for that as well.

I buy 20l of 10w 40 semi synthetic trade for £39 and I've never seen that beaten anywhere yet, and I always check the oil when I go.

I have heard that not all Costco stores stock exactly the same things mikey.

The two Chevron oils are in blue and black contaniers from memory.

I got the top spec 0w40 Mobil1 oil in the Lakeside a few weeks ago for the wifes Clio. I thought it was good value just under £29 for 5 litres, not the usual Mobil 1 4litres. And of course fully synthetic.

Biketrials08

The number on oil is to do with their viscocity at differing temperatures (there is a time vs distance test to determine the numbers). The number with the w is the winter rating and the other is the summer rating, so a 10w-40 (semi-synthetic of this grade would suit your car, probably burning oil on valve stem and piston ring leakage) performs like a single grade 10 weight oil in winter and like a single grade 40 weight oil in summer. Costco is the place for oil especially when they have their promotions on Castrol, for more advanced blends nielsencdg are almost unbeatable (sign up to newsletter to get an extra 5% off) easily beating opie oils and with better free delivery terms.

mikey72

Biketrials08 wrote: »

The number on oil is to do with their viscocity at differing temperatures (there is a time vs distance test to determine the numbers). The number with the w is the winter rating and the other is the summer rating, so a 10w-40 (semi-synthetic of this grade would suit your car, probably burning oil on valve stem and piston ring leakage) performs like a single grade 10 weight oil in winter and like a single grade 40 weight oil in summer. Costco is the place for oil especially when they have their promotions on Castrol, for more advanced blends nielsencdg are almost unbeatable (sign up to newsletter to get an extra 5% off) easily beating opie oils and with better free delivery terms.

http://www.nielsencdg.co.uk/index.html

Doesn' seem a bad price bh.
Classic 20-50 is as cheap as anywhere else, the 0w40 Mobil1 is as good as bigjl's price, and the bread and buter 10w 40 is ok for a retail price.
Carriage seens good, about a fiver, then free over £60 at the moment.

powie69

Try the following website for oil recommendations

www.shell.co.uk/lubematch

mikey72

bigjl wrote: »

I have heard that not all Costco stores stock exactly the same things mikey.

The two Chevron oils are in blue and black contaniers from memory.

I got the top spec 0w40 Mobil1 oil in the Lakeside a few weeks ago for the wifes Clio. I thought it was good value just under £29 for 5 litres, not the usual Mobil 1 4litres. And of course fully synthetic.

"They stock it, but 20l of Chevron 10w 40 are £42 at ours, so I guess I'm sticking to the Vauxhall stuff.
Still a good price at £42 though.
The 5w-30 fully synthetic is £60 for 20l trade, so the Mobil's not too bad either.

Wig

OP,

You will notice that oils get more expensive the lower the first number is as shown below.

Cheapest
20W
15W
10W
5W
0W
Most expensive

Your car will be very happy on a 15W (my car a 2003 is very happy on 15W). I think putting 15W in your car is actually giving it a bit of luxury, I certainly would not waste money on a 10W for your car. As your car is burning it, if I were you I would look at the price of 20W over 15W if you can find a 20W at a cheaper price than 15W I'd go with the 20W.

Your car is designed to take anything between 10W/40 & 20W/50
So the first number can be either 10W 15W or 20W
The second number can be either 40 or 50

What you actully go for should be purely decided on £ per litre i.e go for the cheapest you can find, and this will definately not be a 10W unless it's on an amazing special offer.

jase1

It is certainly the case that if a car is losing oil, changing up to a thicker grade reduces the loss, and the oil is of course cheaper.

I'm not sure I'd go as far as the 20W50 stuff, but 15W40 is only about £9-10 for 5 litres if you look around, is unlikely to do the car any harm and is likely to reduce the consumption.

What I would do in this instance though is decrease the interval between changes -- down to every 6 months or 6000 miles. Older cars benefit from this anyway. I ran an old Daewoo for several years on 15W40 changing every 6 months and it did the car no harm (these were GM Family 2 engines where the manufacturer specified 10W40).

20W50 oil typically costs around £5 for 5l, 15W40 about £9, 10W40 around £12 and 5W30 about £16. 5W30 and better are for newer cars only.

mikey72

jase1 wrote: »

...........................20W50 oil typically costs around £5 for 5l, ....................

Where?

I've been looking for 20w50 for years, every time I go anywhere that sells oil.

edit - Having re-read the other prices, where again?