Stickyfinger wrote: ↑22 Sep 2017, 21:10doctle wrote: ↑22 Sep 2017, 19:24 By flushing oil I meant an oil that you use for say 100 miles or so. The new oil will pick up stuff and hold it in suspension. After say 100 miles/a week change the oil and filter again. Like I said oil is cheap, engines aren't. It's all down to personal preference but the old guys had the right attitude, oil everything. When was the last time you saw an oil can in a workshop?
This afternoon.....I was in my workshop all afternoon
Re the flush.....as said, I do this the first time I get a car, I see no reason to do it any other time as I have short changed anyway and used an flushing agent.
Touche! I meant in you don't see oil cans in garage workshops any more not many mechanics either only fitters. Friend of mine had sticky brakes on the rear of his Skoda superb, dealers diagnoses was new calipers, discs and pads. Total bill was huge, had he asked me I'd have got two caliper rebuild kits, his discs were good pads only 7 months old, I could probably have did the lot for an eighth of the dealers charges.
I thought the OP had just purchased the car, ooops!