Valvoline does it for me. Never bought it, just a nostalgia thing for an old can of it my dad always kept. Was oil better when bought in square gallon tin cans - you could cut the side off with tinsnips and use it as a receptacle when draining old oil.

Negative connotations - Carlube.

Halford's "own" brand is rebadged Castrol I believe - well it was when I was knocking around in the oil industry. Castrol oil is not fully synth, it's a kind of hybrid, they managed to get what they can call fully synth changed - I don't touch the stuff, motorcycle gearboxes are a good barometer of oil quality, Castrol or Halfords makes my bike's gearchange feel like stirring a box of spanners.

When the large American oil company I was working for lab tested the competitor's oil before embarking on their own fully synth project, there was nothing in it amongst the various brands - except for Mobil 1, which was streets ahead. It was the only oil to stay in grade after a few thousand miles; Despite unbeatable hot viscocity, the cold pour rate was astonishing - 10 degrees better than any other oil - that proves the quality of the "base" oil. Our oil after many millions of dollars investment was no better than the rest of the rabble (despite our claims!) we got nowhere near Mobil 1 either...

Terrific on sponge pudding .....

Duckhams was an astounding ahead of its time style-over-content product.

Take an average multigrade and dye it a peculiar colour to differentiate it from the herd – simples.

I wonder if the colour and smell similarities to fairy liquid are just coincidence! :-)

Edited by SteveLee on 24/05/2010 at 17:05