Yum Yum Yum fully synthetic oil 5w40 Low SAPS 5L! ASDA £10

veralum · Post by **veralum** » 05 Jul 2010, 21:00

SL/SC ACEA A3 B4 Low SAPS just right for my C5 with a FAP!

he's a poet and he doesn't even know it!!

veralum · Post by **veralum** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:05

60 views and not one comment?

jgra1 · Post by **jgra1** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:06

I wonder if I could put this in my Td>? sounds like overkill but still ..

veralum · Post by **veralum** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:16

MikeT · Post by **MikeT** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:16

Not in my ASDA, it's still £18 for 5L. The nearest I could see was 2L for £9. You're welcome to buy some for me and bring it down?

TD= Turbo Diesel
I'll be putting in my TD soon, currently using semi-synth but says it's ok for diesels. Synth is good for turbo's, especially if you rag it like I do.

jgra1 · Post by **jgra1** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:18

its ok veralum.. quite fancied some fully sythetic in my turbo deis.. but I will stick with the mineral oil..

veralum · Post by **veralum** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:22

TD= Turbo Diesel
I'll be putting in my TD soon, currently using semi-synth but says it's ok for diesels. Synth is good for turbo's, especially if you rag it like I do.[/quote]

yes synthetic especially good for turbo's especially in the rundown when engine turned off,

sorry its not near you, maybe it will take a while for offer to trickle thru

veralum · Post by **veralum** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:22

jgra1 wrote:its ok veralum.. quite fancied some fully sythetic in my turbo deis.. but I will stick with the mineral oil..

mineral in a turbo diesel? ooooh nasty!

MikeT · Post by **MikeT** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:31

veralum wrote:TD= Turbo Diesel
I'll be putting in my TD soon, currently using semi-synth but says it's ok for diesels. Synth is good for turbo's, especially if you rag it like I do.

yes synthetic especially good for turbo's especially in the rundown when engine turned off,

sorry its not near you, maybe it will take a while for offer to trickle thru[/quote]

I'm not sold on the idea of oil cooking in a turbo diesel as the temperatures only rise when going full throttle and quickly cool off-throttle. By the time the car is parked, it's simply not hot enough IMO. The handbook does advise not to rev the engine when turning off but that's all.

I've used mineral oil in this TD and the one before with no problems whatsoever though I do cut short the intervals to about 5K miles. However, I'll always prefer synthetic as it's less likely to shear at high turbo speeds and as I'm tuning this engine (probably to breaking point), it's going to need all the protection it can get.

Yeah, the price-cut might be on the way but the Tesco offer meant they've been out of stock since it started. Maybe I'll be lucky and catch some on the shelfs if/when our Asda reduce the price.

jgra1 · Post by **jgra1** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:31

sorry I am just hopeless today.. I mean't cheap TD oil.. I change it quite often as I run WVO.. so I go for the cheapest oil I can, suitable for old school Deisels..

just ignore me

veralum · Post by **veralum** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:34

i'm even more confused, td oil wvo? LOL

MikeT · Post by **MikeT** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:35

And I run mine on SVO.

veralum · Post by **veralum** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:44

MikeT wrote: And I run mine on SVO.

now your just picking on me!

jgra1 · Post by **jgra1** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:49

straight or Waste veg oil

ie. supermarket cooking oil or in my case, brighton kebab oil or something similar

veralum · Post by **veralum** » 06 Jul 2010, 15:55

jgra1 wrote:straight or Waste veg oil ie. supermarket cooking oil or in my case, brighton kebab oil or something similar

ah yes, remember many years ago when i converted my audi man came to visit in his citroen bx running on supermarket oil, he had made an electric preheater in the fuel line with a thermal cutout for when the heater pipes got hot.

is supermarket cooking oil cheap enough? and what ratio can you run it in a car without a prepump fuel heater