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Thought i might post this interesting article posted by Eurol, a Dutch lubricant manufacturer. This is regarding the manufacturer requirements for the upcoming Euro7 standards and how this will also put stricter requirements on the engine oil...

I am planning to change the oil in my Honda BF 50 this winter, Honda prescribes 10w30 oil. In europe its hard to get official honda 10w30 outboard oil, its only sold in liter bottles and costs a fortune. It is not FC-W approved like the honda 10w30 marine oil is in the USA. This engine needs...

4k miles ago i switched my bmw n52 engine to fuchs oil, somehow its pretty unknown in the aftermarket world eventhough it claims to be the biggest independent oil manufacturer. One of the reasons was that in 20l jugs i can get the oil at around 5 euros a litre here in europe (for example shell...

Hi all, my 2005 bmw e91 325i has always seen blue bmw/mb 325.0 blue coolant. Ive replaced it 60k miles ago. Because i will preventively replace some parts i already got new basf g48 coolant. However i decided to look how the current coolant is looking, just a preventive check to see if there...

Just needed to pull of the valve cover of this car to lookup which type of valve cover gasket it had because it was leaking lightly. That's also why this picture is not the best. I was amazed at how clean this engine was after 19 years and 186k miles. According to service book this car had its...

I am not trying to bash any brand here, but from what i have observed in the past there was somewhat of a negative view on castrol oils with not delivering super clean engines and for dropping their in the usa popular 0w40 syntetic oil. After that it seems i dont see many threads or users with...

Just did oil change on the motorgearboxes on a 2018 kubota 3ton track crane. I filled it again with the oil he always gets from the dealer. I said i put on a worklight to see how the old oils comes out, actually this came out pretty concerning to me. If i held a magnet to it it would attract...

Being a wind turbine technician who works a lot with hydraulics i know that normal hydraulic oil is for moving/creating the presure, provide lubrication and provide cooling. On most installations there is a set interval to change the hydraulic oil because it ages under heat. For example 10...

In previous years i always ran what we in europe call E0 fuel which is octane 98 gasoline with 0% ethanol, this because i know that this is easier on the fuel lines/gaskets and does not attract moist or leave behind residue as much as E10 which is the regular octane 95 with the legal requirement...

So i ran my bmw n52 engine now for more than 60k miles on shell helix 5w30 am-l with 15k ocis. car is now at 242k miles and overall i am pretty happy with results. Engine is clean enough for me inside, no sludge. Now i see that i can get 20l jug of fuchs titan GT1 pro c3 with bmw ll04, mb229.51...

When i leave home i always drive very calmly for the first 6 miles, not exceeding 3000 rpm and the consumption needle guage not exceeding 50% of the meter. These types of n52 bmw engines where fitted with electric waterpumps which has intelligent warm up procedure by barely flowing the water...

Yesterday my car threw a low coolant warning, after checking out what it could be i spotted coolant on the underpannel and also some drips under the car. After checking the radiator through the lower grill i could see that it was bend downwards compared to the AC condensor. This valeo radiator...

During covid quaraintaine i decided to service my honda 20hp four stroke out board motor i bought used last year. Motor is from 2008 but was hardley used when i bought it. The seller told me it was used on a small dinghy which was placed on a larger vessel. During the service i noticed that on...

I inherited a series 3 landrover 3.5l v8 from my father. Its what is called a stage one v8 because it was the series 3 last years fitted with a v8 gasoline to compete with the japanese in domestic market. This was funded by the british goverment, stage one being the first financial injection of...

I recently bought a Honda bf20 from 2008, last service is unknown so will change the oil just to be sure. Local dealer supplies Honda OEM oil at 14,50 euros a litre. I need 1.3 litres so that would already be 29 euros on 2 litres of oil. I will probably stick to oem honda filter (20 euros) so...

My bmw n52 engine 2.5 inline 6 recently gives fault codes on both cats below efficiency. 1 cat per 3 cylinders. I can clear the codes but after a couple of miles the codes come back, strangley the always come simultainsly on both cats. If i clear the codes, let the car sit for the night they...

I work as a techniciain in the windturbine industry and a lot grease and lubricants that we use come from Fuchs, these are milion euro contracts with warranties etc... They are a multi million dollar company who make oils for almost every application imaginable and, according to wikipedia they...

I know some of you guys maintain pretty short OCI's so for them it might not really be applicable. However i maintain around 13k miles/20.000km oci's and i am thinking about changing the fitler during oil change and in between the oil changes. I drive that in about 5 months. I had it 2 times...

My brother has an old car and currently has a 120 mile daily highway drive. He asked me what i could do to make it absolutly as fuel efficient as possible. I said it probably wont make a lot of difference and maybe try a simple thing like putting a little more pressure in the tyres. And if you...

Modern cars are designed to warm up verry rapidly with water/oil heat exchanger/ underplate under the engine/ heat insulation in the engine covers etc... Modern engines are basicly running in a box with only the radiator being outside the box. However i am currently working on a Honda k24 2.4...