Service on a very old car

StrongWork

mcjordi wrote: »

mines just hit the teens 13 year old megane.. cost me £13 for an oil change (done by myself with decent oil too )

Where did you manage to buy enough decent oil (and presumably a filter) for a total of £13?

fred246

You have to get a special offer on the oil. I got mine from Halfords last time for £10 but it's 12 at the moment. According to hotUKdeals Lidl had oil for £10 in October. Then you get filter from eurocarparts. The oil was API SJ spec which was recommended for my car.

straighttalker

Order at Halfords by midnight tonight and you can get 4 litres of fully synthetic oil for a tad over a tenner.

straighttalker

fred246 wrote: »

You have to get a special offer on the oil. I got mine from Halfords last time for £10 but it's 12 at the moment. According to hotUKdeals Lidl had oil for £10 in October. Then you get filter from eurocarparts. The oil was API SJ spec which was recommended for my car.

Order by midnight and you get a further 10% off the £12 price.

Tilt

I have a 2000 Fiat Punto HGT which I have owned from new. It flew through it's last MOT with NO advisories. It still has it's original clutch!

A 14 year old car is not "very old" at all.

EdGasket

Your father-in-law is right. Get it MoT'd first and then if it passes, get the oil and filter changed and maybe have someone reliable to check the brake wear; NOT a quick/fast-fit place.

poppasmurf_bewdley

EdGasket wrote: »

Your father-in-law is right. Get it MoT'd first and then if it passes, get the oil and filter changed and maybe have someone reliable to check the brake wear; NOT a quick/fast-fit place.

Be warned. Dirty oil and filter can lead to a failure of the emission tests. Clean oil equals cleaner emissions.

mcjordi

StrongWork wrote: »

Where did you manage to buy enough decent oil (and presumably a filter) for a total of £13?

i get trade prices at my local factor and some discount on top of that as i brought them a huge contract to supply parts and consumables to a very large fleet operator

bigjl

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

Be warned. Dirty oil and filter can lead to a failure of the emission tests. Clean oil equals cleaner emissions.

You don't actually believe that do you?

poppasmurf_bewdley

bigjl wrote: »

You don't actually believe that do you?

If you don't know that the condition of the oil can affect the emissions, then you evidently don't know much about internal combustion engines.

One only needs to Google 'Dirty oil affects emissions' and read some of the 909,000 results to confirm the fact.