UncleFista
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| posted on 3/10/11 at 08:08 PM |
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cheap engine oil, any offers on ?
I need 7 litres of 10-40 semi-synth diesel oil.
As usual, when I don't need any there seemed to be a few offers around.
Now I need some, it's all full price. I've searched ukhotdeals, but there's nothing current on there.
Has anyone seen any decent oil cheap anywhere ?
TIA 
Tony Bond / UncleFista
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Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
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mrwibble
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| posted on 3/10/11 at 08:17 PM |
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could try opie oils. put shipsnipx in the offer code box, should get you £3.00 off
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britishtrident
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| posted on 3/10/11 at 09:07 PM |
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Morrisons are usually the cheapest for oil, these days they sell Carlube and have fully synth at a very good price.
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 3/10/11 at 09:22 PM |
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halfords have 20% off own brand oil.
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zilspeed
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| posted on 3/10/11 at 09:41 PM |
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[cough]ASsociated DAiries[/cough]
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UncleFista
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| posted on 3/10/11 at 10:03 PM |
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Just popped out and tried asda and Tesco, they both sold the same spec oil for the same price in the same containers, only the labels differed.
I bought a 4l and a 2l of fully synthetic 5w-40* for £30 (£20 and £10).
Much cheaper than the 2x 5l of Millers I was going to buy
* I know I said 10-40 but 5-40 is specified for cold weather and I change it every 6 months.
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 3/10/11 at 10:35 PM |
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* You also said 7 Litres!
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UncleFista
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| posted on 4/10/11 at 12:25 AM |
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I've not done an oil change on this car yet, capacity is meant to be 6.5l.
I already have a litre or so of fully synth left in the bottom of a 5l container
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 4/10/11 at 06:14 AM |
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I get Vauxhall oil 10w40 for about £9 for 5 litres.
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T66
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| posted on 4/10/11 at 06:15 AM |
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My Land Rover recently spent 12 miles spraying ASDA 15w/40 all over the A1/engine bay etc - Was only a week old and cost £20.
Now replaced with yet more ASDA oil - Supermarket oil unfortunately is the cheapest.
My engine bay will never rust
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britishtrident
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| posted on 4/10/11 at 06:33 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by T66
My Land Rover recently spent 12 miles spraying ASDA 15w/40 all over the A1/engine bay etc - Was only a week old and cost £20.
Now replaced with yet more ASDA oil - Supermarket oil unfortunately is the cheapest.
My engine bay will never rust [/quote
Most modern engines are so oil tight that the sumps rust through, I've changed a few on the smaller Rover K series, my daughters Nissan Note
had a leaking sump due to rust before its first MOT. Nissan build quality is in ruins since Reanualt took control.
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Nash
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| posted on 4/10/11 at 07:45 AM |
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I just changed the oil in the Indy. I bought Castrol Magnetec 5w/30  from Halfrauds and I decided to buy 2x4 Litres so I have some in the garage for
"topping up" if need be. I neally fell over when I got to the till £60 for 8 litres of oil 
add that to new plugs and a small vent filter and I spent £99.96 'kin el I didn't know Halfaurds was a "Main Dealer"
Will be shopping around in future as I change the oil in the Indy every 4,000 miles which is three times a year.
.................... Neil
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SeaBass
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| posted on 4/10/11 at 09:59 AM |
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Holy moly - some very expensive, low certification oils there.
Costco - Chevron fully synthetic 5w-30 - can't remember to full spec BUT it's decent certified ~£40 for 20 litres.
I've switched from Millers that I used to swear by to this in just about everything I run.
[Edited on 4/10/11 by SeaBass]
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britishtrident
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| posted on 4/10/11 at 10:44 AM |
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I use 5w/30 synthetic across the board now when I can find at a good price Texaco Havoline 5w/30 to BMW longlife G or Longlife S spec.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 4/10/11 at 10:46 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Nash
I just changed the oil in the Indy. I bought Castrol Magnetec 5w/30 from Halfrauds and I decided to buy 2x4 Litres so I have some in the garage for
"topping up" if need be. I neally fell over when I got to the till £60 for 8 litres of oil
add that to new plugs and a small vent filter and I spent £99.96 'kin el I didn't know Halfaurds was a "Main Dealer"
Will be shopping around in future as I change the oil in the Indy every 4,000 miles which is three times a year.
.................... Neil
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Neville Jones
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| posted on 4/10/11 at 11:13 AM |
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If you've got a Partco nearby, try them. Their trade price on oil is very good.
Cheers,
Nev.
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ashg
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| posted on 7/10/11 at 05:40 PM |
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5-30 fully synth in partco was £22 last week when i did the tintop.
edit: 5L bottle btw
also 5-50 comma race oil is only £35 for 5L
[Edited on 7/10/2011 by ashg]
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britishtrident
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| posted on 7/10/11 at 06:12 PM |
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One oil I won't use for anything except for flushing is GTX Magnatec
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mcerd1
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| posted on 7/10/11 at 08:18 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
One oil I won't use for anything except for flushing is GTX Magnatec
why do you say that ?
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 7/10/11 at 08:33 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by mcerd1
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
One oil I won't use for anything except for flushing is GTX Magnatec
why do you say that ?
Aye you think it would be awful for flushing seeing as the magnetic bits means the oil sticks around
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 7/10/11 at 10:01 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
quote:
Originally posted by mcerd1
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
One oil I won't use for anything except for flushing is GTX Magnatec
why do you say that ?
Aye you think it would be awful for flushing seeing as the magnetic bits means the oil sticks around
There are no "magnetic" bits in Castrol Magnetec, it's just a mineral oil with the additon of relatively "clingy"
synthetic ester.
Pretty much all modern synthetic oils are quite clingy anyway.
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mcerd1
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| posted on 9/10/11 at 02:26 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
There are no "magnetic" bits in Castrol Magnetec, it's just a mineral oil with the additon of relatively "clingy"
synthetic ester.
the new version of the magnatec 5w30 is claiming to be full synthetic (since they changed it to meet the new ford WSS-M2C913-C spec )
I used the old mineral stuff for years in normal cars without any problems at all (magnatec and ye olde gtx stuff) mind you that was changing it every
5000 miles and only in simple NA engines 
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