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Interesting video comparing a before and after on Redline SI-1. I love this guys no nonsense approach to his videos. He's done quite a bit on Restore & Protect as well! I'm impressed by the improvement on the injectors mostly!

Morning all! I was looking for oil for my Dads car last night. He has a 1.5 Ecoboost Fiesta ST. It comes with 200hp but his has been tuned to about 240hp now. His oil spec is a Ford standard, of which most oils that meet it are C5 rated. There are however some oils that meet C6 as well. That...

Hi all! 🙂 It's coming up to my sisters service on her 1.0 Peugeot 108. It has a little 3 cylinder engine with a timing chain and standard port injection. If I put her number plate in on "what oil for my car" websites they almost always come up with 0w30, with them sometimes suggesting 10w-40...

Hi all. As the title says really. For vehicles that are known to be prone to timing chain issues, would it be worth switching from the often recommended C2 oil to a C3 oil? I ask this as the requirement for C2 oil HTHS is only a minimum HTHS of 2.9 whereas the C3 oil minimum is 3.6. Do you...

This is something that interested me when I was having a look through the owners manual on my Moms new Suzuki. I always thought that cleaning an air filter with an air gun was a terrible idea. I thought it would damage the element and no car manufacture would ever consider it an option. What...

Evening all. I need to buy a service kit for my 1.6 diesel Civic Mk9 soon. The two websites I usually use for parts have the following brands. Honda Genuine Filter Blue Print Bosch Mahle Another website I use less often has Mann Nippart Audura For the last 2 services I have done I used the...

Hi All, I've quite often driven carefully to try and keep my fuel costs down in my diesel civic. Recently out of interest I started monitoring the DPF regeneration frequency. How many miles between each regeneration. I am wondering what peoples thoughts are when it comes to drive style to keep...

I am thinking of using some BG 245 cleaner in my 1.6 diesel vehicle. I have had a read about it and it seems as though it has some good cleaning chemicals in it that seem to do a good job (lots of good reviews on forums out there). I am interested in whether anyone on here has used it and...

Afternoon all. I've often wondered if there are any ways that people have heard of that will help reduce the dreaded soot & oil contamination in diesel car intakes. Premium fuel? Fuel Additives? Special oil type? Driving a specific way? Etc. For example, on petrol cars there is an oil type...

Hi all, I am wondering what peoples thoughts would be on a "Maintenance Log" section on this site. It maybe a little selfish for a forum, but I've often wanted to keep a track of what services / work has been carried out on my vehicle, and have it accessible to send to people interested in that...

Hi All, Another quick question for the oil specialists on here! I am planning to do a thorough clean out / service of my Dads classic land rover. (2.0l petrol 1950s). I have a quick question. Having recently done a load of experimenting with pinking (which I'm pretty sure turns out to be...

Evening all! I have just bought a brand new filter which was labelled as a "Genuine Honda Filter". It arrived in the post today and I am wondering if it has been badly handled potentially. When I took it out the packaging, I could hear something inside knocking about. It sounds like how I...

Hi All! I am hoping to gain some knowledge from the smart bunch on here! My Dad has a 1950s Land Rover. Some times it has quite a bad habbit of excessive pinking / knocking. We have tried multiple times to change the timing, and using the highest octane fuel we can it still occurs. (99 UK...

Hi all. I have a 1.6 diesel Honda Civic. I keep getting a "Water In Fuel Filter" info pop up on the dashboard. It sat for quite a while (2 weeks) not getting used much over the cold wet Christmas period with about quarter of a tank of diesel. I'm wondering if condensation is the cause and has...

Hi all, I saw a post recently on here of a small filter that had been cut up. It was on a pretty large engine. I was wondering, would there be any benefits of running an oversize filter? For example, my engine bay has plenty of space for a longer filter. If I could find one with the same...

Hi all! I am planning to carry out probably a full 2 days of cleaning & protecting on my little old Peugeot 306 over the next few weeks. I am trying to think up the ultimate cleaning process which covers as many areas as possible! Interior - Full interior vacuum. - All hard surfaces wiped over...

I've been on the look out for the perfect oil for our classic 1950s Land Rover. The engine is a 2l petrol. It has a really basic "bypass style" oil filter. It only does about 2000 miles per year. Most of them fairly short trips and just pottering about. I am thinking this would be a fantastic...

Hi all 😀 I have a car that's often driven short journeys. I have seen that often oil filters that have synthetic media rather than cellulose media often have a lower differential pressure. As such I would think this would allow the bypass valve to close earlier when the oil is cold? With that...

I'm soon going to be buying my yearly service oil. The car is a 2.0 HDI diesel from Peugeot. Standard HP is 90. It's been dyno'ed at 135hp after a remap and some exhaust work. I like using this website in the UK. Very good team. The options are either 0w40 or 5w40. I like the idea of 0w40 as I...

Morning (or afternoon / evening) We have a vehicle with a 1950s 2l petrol engine. It has a very basic single carb setup, with 0 after treatment on the exhaust, and very basic timing adjustment (turn the distributor forward or backward to advance / retard the timing). I am wondering if there...