Can I top up my banger with this oil? HELP

Iceweasel

londonTiger wrote: »

I wonder who makes castrol/shell oil. Would be funny if they bought theirs from the same refinery. :rotfl:

Shell is an oil company, castrol is not. So not entirely implausible. I guess bottom line is the additives and filteration. Just because castrol sells bulk unbranded supplies to a supermarket does not mean they are using the same QC or adding the same additives.

I consider Castrol to be an oil company but I suppose it depends on what you consider an oil company to be.

The Castrol Oil Company was bought by Burmah Oil which in turn was bought by British Petroleum.

BP and Amoco (American Oil Co.) merged a good while back which is why the USA is full of BP 'gas stations'.

colino

Burmah Castrol also used to own Halfords, but what does that have to do with a 12 year old Corolla not having enough oil in the sump?

gilbert_and_sullivan

Poor little car, feel sorry for a decent little car like this when subject to such abuse and neglect.

mr1974

boatman wrote: »

Halfords has the cheapest oil deal at the moment, £10 for 4lt, its actually made by Comma.
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_1009580_langId_-1_categoryId_165581

Thanks - in the end I went for this.

£10 reserve and collect, 1 hour later I was on the store. Free fitting - and the guy showed me how to do it. Car gulped 3 litres and it's at a good level now, it was almost empty. And I have 1 litre spare!

Another MOT tomorrow, fingers crossed I haven't cooked the engine.
MR

Weird_Nev

mr1974 wrote: »

Car gulped 3 litres and it's at a good level now....

And I gulped when I read that!

Oil checks weekly from now on, without fail, until you have a handle on it's usual consumption. To be honest, I'd be tempted to get a full oil change done and new oil filter with the MOT, since the 1 litre or so you had left has been doing the work of 4 litres for who knows how long, and will have been concentrated sludge.

Hopefully you've avoided major damage.... but I bet you've dramatically increased wear on a number of parts through neglect.

fatbelly

So that 'last MOT', when they highlighted that the level was low ... was that 12 months ago?

AdrianC

Weird_Nev wrote: »

To be honest, I'd be tempted to get a full oil change done and new oil filter

It does make you wonder how long since that was last done, doesn't it?

Oil & filter aren't the only maintenance work needed, either.

When was the coolant last changed? When was the brake fluid last changed? Fuel filter? Brakes last checked? etc etc etc...

cutandshut

Not sure about changing the oil. I think I might have kept the oil & changed the car.

fatbelly

Anyone want to buy a 2001 Toyota Corolla Hatchback - 100 k - 12 months MOT - one careful owner?

mr1974

fatbelly wrote: »

Anyone want to buy a 2001 Toyota Corolla Hatchback - 100 k - 12 months MOT - one careful owner?

It's new MOT now as of today! :-)

It's strange that a couple of things that had been highlighted one year ago have not been highlighted this time. I haven't done anything at all to the car. That is, apart from the oil top up.

"headlight adjustment" fail-retake-pass - £61 and go home.
MR