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• saab 9000 cse fpt 2.3 auto - oil for my saab 12 Jul 2010 (Forum)
  ok so,  i'am going to change the oil in my car,, as it badly needs it, my brother in law has given me some :- fully synthetic  sae 5w 30 acea a1  api SL/energy conserving, will this be ok to put in my car with 137.000 on the clock
• Which oil for my petrol Passat 26 Feb 2007 (Forum)
  After four main dealer services when the car has been filled with 10W/30, this time the dealer has used Castrol 5W/30 Longlife III on my 2.0ltr 8V Petrol Passat. Just wondered if this is wrong and why they would suddenly change. What do I top it up with? Can I use the 10W/30 Halfords Oil that I
• Ford Ka 30k service 29 Feb 2004 (Forum)
  The last time i had my Ka serviced, when the oil was changed a good quality shell 5w40 mineral oil was put in (less than 3000 miles ago). This year with my next service looming i want to start using a fully synthetic oil (0w40)in the car and was wondering if it could go straight in without doing
• Vectra oil check sensor 23 Jun 2002 (Forum)
  How sensitive is the oil level check sensor on a 98 Vectra CDX? The warning message flashed up on mine on the M50 yesterday but when I checked, the dipstick showed a deficiency of only a quarter of a litre. I topped up and the warning has not appeared since - about 80 miles. Is the sensor ultra
• 303,000 mile Rover Montego 30 Aug 2001 (Forum)
  My wife's Rover Montego 2.0 GSi {petrol} , 1990 on a G, has done 303,000 miles. Is this a record? Oil changed every 5000, only pay £3.00 for the oil, sometimes use second hand oil drained from my Volvo 940. Only needed £15 of bits of a scappper to pass the MoT. Third party insuance. Cheap
• Toyota Rav4 2.2 D-4D 150 bhp 2013 - Changing 6 Speed Manual Gearbox Oil 20 Mar 2016 (Forum)
  ?  The filler plus appears to be with a nut head abour 24 mm across flat and has the inscription 'do not disturb until service manual has been read'.  Yet it seems rather low on the gearbox for the volume of oil which will require replacing 3.4 + 0.5 litres.  Is this the correct filler plug
• chevrolet epica vcdi - servicing 20 Oct 2010 (Forum)
  Just had an oil change done at Evans Halshaw in St Albans (while having some warranry work carried out), and realised when I got home that the "service technichian" had filled the engine with the wrong grade of oil, Happily I spotted it and Evans Halshaw have refunded the oil change
• Ford - KA (2002) - Smokey on cold startup 4 Sep 2007 (Forum)
  Ford ka, 52 plate, 40k miles, fsh (oil changes every 10k but now due). Old 'Enduro' pushrod engine with injection. Car is producing a fair bit of grey (not blue) smoke on startup when cold, worse after standing overnight, worse again on cold days. Just a bit too bad to 'let it develop' although
• Vaux Astra G 98 Reg 1.6 16V LS 3 Nov 2004 (Forum)
  As my car was lacking power/hesitating acceleration & misfiring, I did an oil flush & spark plug change in my vauxhall, changing the oil from a mineral to a part synthetic 10W-40 Castrol Magnatec and the spark plugs from NGK to Bosch Super 4. However, the problem still persists - I checked
• AX head gasket tips 18 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  Hi everyone I'm in the middle of changing the head gasket on a Citroen AX10 (alloy block, wet liners). The old gasket failed due to a crack in the gasket across the oil feed to the head - oil everywhere, but no overheating problems. Before I put it all back together, does anyone have any useful
• Audi A4 - Multi-tronics gear box issues 9 Jun 2020 (Forum)
  has any experienced problems with their gear box. I have a  2018 plate 1.4 TFSI black edition s tronic and have been advised by my dealer that because I did not change the gear oil at the correct time/miles has caused a fault meaning a new main control gear box unit ECU is required
• SEAT Leon - Any help appreciated 28 Apr 2011 (Forum)
  I took my car in for an MOT & service this saturday and had a phone call from the garage to say that car had passed the MOT but when they had drained the oil, for the service, they found that the coil that goes into the sump had been cross threaded by whoever had changed the oil last
• FIAT - 03 2.0 g/box oil refill brake query for Ducato 24 Jul 2008 (Forum)
  just completed a new clutch change and want to refill gearbox with new oil. i cant see a drainage plug to drain remaining oil out and also cant see the refilling point. the gearbox does have a breather cap and some kind of electronic plug on the top, can one of these be removed to refill
• Peugot 207 - Is it OK to mix OW-30 and 5W-30 oils? 17 May 2024 (Forum)
  oil is 5W-30, will mixing the two oils cause any damage? Want to try and avoid having to do a full oil change in a garage (also not too keen on driving it to the garage if the oil is very low). Any advice welcome!! Ta Rob
• Mini Cooper S - Turbocharger warranty 7 Nov 2021 (Forum)
  In August this year the turbo on my mini went. 2K later the garage fitted a new one and said that an oil change after 500 miles is advised or it may void the manufacturers warranty. Low and behold I completely forgot about this and have only just booked it in for an oil/filter change 3000 miles
• Peugeot 106 (1991 - 2002) - 95 1.5D Biodiesel in a Peugeot 106 21 Jul 2010 (Forum)
  I have a Peugeot 106 with the 1.5 diesel engine, has anyone experience on running this on either biodiesel or mixing cooking oil with pump diesel? On another site, which I can't now remember the name of, it recommended not running veg oil with the Lucas pump, but changing it for a Bosch one
• Audi A4 (1995 - 2000) - Turbo noise 2.5v6 TDI 12 Nov 2007 (Forum)
  of seconds. The car is at 130k and is serviced every 10K oil change etc, the engine has started to burn a bit of oil recently, but nothing extreme.
• Volvo 850 - 1995 9 Dec 2002 (Forum)
  I am now the proud owner of the above vehicle. It has done 74,000 miles and is an automatic, 2-litre 20 valve model. Does anyone have any top tips regarding when the timing belt should be changed, what would be a good interval for oil changes (mainly urban use, with the odd blast up & down
• Ford Fiesta 1.25 - Engine oil - synthetic semi or full 9 Oct 2018 (Forum)
  Hi, I have a 2015 Fiesta 1.25 and need to change the oil and ant the right product . The Ford car manual says use WSS-M2C948-B or C Halfords do Castrol as above spec and its fully synthetic Eurocarparts do Shell Helix which is semi synthetic no mention of the WSS number
• Ford Mondeo III (2000 - 2007) - 03 1.8 engine burning a bit of oil & smokey 11 Jul 2009 (Forum)
  just got the car of a mate it is highe milaged done 150,000 i have flushed the engine i have changed the oil on the car and filterit is only smoking a bit is the anything i can put in the oil 2 help it stop smoking a bit if not it looks like another engine when the engine is running it sounds