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How do folks, Just trying to work out what's going to be best for our customer's engines here. VW 502.00 primarily but product rationalisation is a thing. I'm looking at M1 0w-40 or Mobil Super 3000 5w-40 (for the Mobil brand) BP Visco 5000 C 5w-40 has all the OEM specs I want but it's as...

How do lads. potentially the most boring topic of the day. I'm taking bonnet/hood latch lube. Whenever I see latches in our workshop they are just an accumulation of grit and grease which is only like grinding paste wearing the latches out. Tech love a good mound of lithium spray grease! I'm...

It's scientifically impossible to ... a. tie something down in a trailer and not say "that's not going anywhere". and b. pick up a 1-litre oil bottle and not shake it.

It's anecdote time folks! We had VW Golf with the 1.6TDiCR engine come in as a trade-in with a misfire. Diag'd by another garage with an injector fault. I thought I'd try this new additive in it. The car had about 3/4 of a tank of fuel and they say to use 1ml per litre of fuel but you know...

http://www.lube-media.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Lube-Tech102-Newinsightintothebenefitsofsyntheticestersinchallenginglubricantingapplications.pdf I found this to be a good informative read and seemed to be low on pretentious impenetrable language. Enjoy. Apologies if it's already been...

We've got Castrol Edge M 5w-40 and Mobil ESP 0w-40 meeting this new spec but do we know anything about backward compatibility? There's no backward compatibility for Porsche engines but what about VAG?

I found this to be a good no-nonesense article https://www.commaoil.com/files/synerx/BRA3072_COMMA_TECH_TALK_LSPI_MAY_2018_LR.pdf Regards

Hello all, just added a franchise at our dealership and with it comes an ExxonMobil deal where I can get it a reasonable price. We specialise in VAG as well though so was wondering what to keep in a barrel. (504.00 507.00) Mobil 1 ESP 5w-30 or Mobil 1 ESP 0w-30 (502.00) Mobil 1 0w40...

Can someone explain this one to me? http://www.penriteoil.com.au/products-categs.php?id_categ=14&id_subcateg=69

We see a lot of VW 1.4 16v engines come through our workshop with noisy valve train and hydraulic lifters. All the cars are using either the longlife 5w-30 oil or 10w40/5w40 502.00 oil for fixed interval recommended on all the oil company websites on their recommendation tools. I have another...

http://imageshack.com/a/img901/635/DAZLYH.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img538/1950/nFAXBe.jpg Oil drain every 5000 miles and filter changed every 10000 miles Looks pretty clean to me, oil is black on the dipstick typically Running PETRONAS Syntium AV 5w-40

Just for your information.... TOTAL QUARTZ 9000 ENERGY RQ - 5W-40 ACEA A3/B4 API SN, SM, SL • VW 508.88 / 509.99 • MB-Approval 229.5 backward compatible 229.3

After being recently schooled on hydrodynamic lubrication (wipe that silly smirk off your face Shannow) I was wondering what happens to the wedge under different driving modes that effect it's ability to prevent wear. I know engines show very little wear when they are operated at constant revs...

A bit of a yawn but was looking at the msds and tds to see how much zddp was in this oil and saw it listed as synthetic oil on one of the data sheets. I thought it was a misprint but it's got a pour point of -45 degree C, bit low for a mineral oil. next week on inane information... regards Riggaz

After hearing about good results from people using 2T oils in diesels including one farmer who fixed his John Deere Combine injector problem with it(despite using the usual selection of fuel system cleaners) I thought I'd give it a trial in a couple of our cars. I changed the oil out of our...

I looked at the msds of the Helix Ultra 5w-40 API SN and the composition has gone from hydro-treated slack wax to synthetic base oil indicating that they have changed the base oil. Maybe to try and cure the foaming problems in Ferrari engines.

Howdy all I have an Austin A35 and i'm putting a tuned (100HP) 1275 BMC A series engine in it and was wondering what oils you lads would think about using. I work at a car dealership and we use Shell oil so I can get any of their UK products on our account. The original spec was for 10w-50...