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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...

So, an interesting topic I found on another forum that I thought I'd share in here. The person has been having very frequent DPF regenerations due to his mostly short trips from what I can tell. He has used an OBD reader to track the last 35 DPF regenerations and the millage in between them. He...

I was thinking about this on the way to work this morning as I coasted up to a set of traffic lights. Do you think cars that are coasted a lot are less likely to clog piston rings. (Some cars seem to be more likely to develop this issue than others from what I've read). My logic being that...

My friend said to me a few weeks back. "I really like my car, and ai want to keep it as long as possible. What can I do to make it last." His car is a Toyota Corolla. Mechanical wise it's bullet proof. Parts wise, they are easy to come by. (Standard yearly maintenance will suit it fine). My...

This is a question I'd be intrigued to find out answers for. Do you have a favorite fuel? No proper science behind it, purely butt dyno and personal findings from how your car drives? I've ran 3 different diesel vehicles over the last 8 years or so. I have always found that my favorite diesel...

Hi All, When I was researching diesel fuel system cleaning a thought occured to me. What makes a good diesel system cleaner? Everyone seems to be of the understanding that in a petrol cleaner, PEA is king. The more the better from what I can see online. However in diesel system cleaners I...

Hi All, Basically the question is the one in the title of this post. What causes sticking piston rings, and is it an issue that can occure on diesels? Are there steps that can reduce the chances of it happening? Driving style, oil choice & change frequency and fuel type I'm guessing are the...

Hi All, Background - So I run an old 1999 Peugeot 306 HDi as a bit of a fun car. It's a 2.0 direct injection diesel which has a remap on it. It has all the standard exhaust on it so it has the cat converter and the standard silencers, but as it's an old car it doesn't have a DPF. I just took...

Hi All, Has anyone used this stuff before? It's £3 a bottle so about £2 cheaper than filling with premium diesel on each tank full. It seems to have about 30ml of 2-EHN and it looks as though the bottle is designed to shove into the fuel tank before filling with fuel (which would be a lot...

Hi there. I have a car that uses C2 oil as standard. From what I have read online, the only real difference I can see between C2 and C3 is that C3 has a higher HTHS rating. From what I can tell, this drops MPG by about 0.4-0.7% (According to an oil manufacture website), but gains higher...

I recently decided to buy a bottle of AR6400D Max from Archoil. I have recently bought a 1.6 I-Dtec Honda. It's a cracking little car with a very quiet and extremely efficient diesel engine in it. I thought I'd "treat" it to a bottle of injector cleaning called Archoil AR6400-D Max. Reviews...