Oil anaysis on my car using MOTORcheckUP kit

ChumLee

neil.woos wrote: »

Correct, I may have been fooled but I wanted to conduct a one time only exercise to monitor the condition of my oil so I know in future how often it should be changed. I used Castrol Edge FST Titnaium 5W40 oil that meets the VW 505 01 spec and this is the oil used if you are NOT on the long life service regime but the annual one. Judging from the result my oil is in fact in top condition and could in theory be used for at least another 6 months.

If the test result yielded poor quality oil, I would have known to change my oil twice a year instead on the manufacturers recommendation of once a year. This may have been credit to Castrol but who knows?

Why is it important it meets VW spec when it's not in a VW?

colino

Typical darkmatter, intensely detailed and highly specific, but missing reality completely, nonsense. His bedroom must be wallpapered with leaflets he's picked up from Halfords.

neil.woos

colino wrote: »

Typical darkmatter, intensely detailed and highly specific, but missing reality completely, nonsense. His bedroom must be wallpapered with leaflets he's picked up from Halfords.

As a matter of fact I never use Halfords for anything really (except for when I need the odd tool for the oil change). They aren't specialists in anything really.


Most of my knowledge comes from online car forums and www.bobistheoilguy.com


Call me obsessed but being highly detailed and specific is the reason my car has nearly travelled 200k miles with no major repairs. And I do all this at the cheapest possible price.

ChumLee

neil.woos wrote: »

As a matter of fact I never use Halfords for anything really (except for when I need the odd tool for the oil change). They aren't specialists in anything really.


Most of my knowledge comes from online car forums and www.bobistheoilguy.com


Call me obsessed but being highly detailed and specific is the reason my car has nearly travelled 200k miles with no major repairs. And I do all this at the cheapest possible price.

But you're a proven liar, so why should we believe you now?

WellKnownSid

neil.woos wrote: »

Call me obsessed but being highly detailed and specific is the reason my car has nearly travelled 200k miles with no major repairs. And I do all this at the cheapest possible price.

I'd hardly call it obsessive or highly detailed when you don't change your gearbox oil for...

neil.woos wrote: »

nearly 200k miles.

neil.woos wrote: »

Most of my knowledge comes from online car forums

Figures...

neil.woos

WellKnownSid wrote: »

I'd hardly call it obsessive or highly detailed when you don't change your gearbox oil for...



Figures...

The main dealer and the handbook states that the gearbox oil is 'life long.' There was nothing wrong with my gearbox so I didn't see the need in changing the oil, except makes the shifts smoother. Had I not changed it, I highly doubt anything detrimental would have happened to the transmission, except for rougher gear changes.


Will post a pic up this week on the 175,000 mark. Okay not that close to 200k but still close enough. I'm currently on 174 934 miles...

Ranger8

enfield_freddy wrote: »

in straight lines with 7l v8 cars

Suprisingly not, many of them are VAG 1.9 tdi

tykesi

Has anyone else noticed how easy Dark Matter's alters are easy to spot by the way they don't deny the accusations, they simply carry on with the thread.

If it was another troll or an innocent person they would naturally reply with 'no I'm not DM' or 'I have no idea what you're talking about'. All his alters just ignore all accusations and continue to spout their nonsense. This one is a perfect example.

BeenThroughItAll

neil.woos wrote: »

Call me obsessed but being highly detailed and specific is the reason my car has nearly travelled 200k miles with no major repairs. And I do all this at the cheapest possible price.

I thought you'd inherited it? Or is this week's fairytale that you've had it since new?


I call (yet more) bullsh1t.

BeenThroughItAll

tykesi wrote: »

Has anyone else noticed how easy Dark Matter's alters are easy to spot by the way they don't deny the accusations, they simply carry on with the thread.

If it was another troll or an innocent person they would naturally reply with 'no I'm not DM' or 'I have no idea what you're talking about'. All his alters just ignore all accusations and continue to spout their nonsense. This one is a perfect example.

Exactly right. That's why it's easy to start reporting posts so quickly.