Originally Posted by SR5
Hey Mate, good to see you again. It's been awhile, did you have an AU Falcon previously ? Congratulations on the new ride.
Yes I have used Castrol Edge 10W30 (A5/B5) in my ‘06 Holden Astra, it went fine, a good oil that didn't burn and stayed clean looking (for what that is worth). I would use again, but I scored some GTX UltraClean 15W40 (A3/B3) at better than half price so I'll probably work my way through that and other blends I have for the Astra.
I've just purchased a new (to me) 2013 Nissan X-Trail 4x4, with the 2.5L 4-cylinder petrol (gas) engine (QR25DE). Which I believe is much the same car with the same engine as the Nissan Rogue in North America. This is the car I'll start running my full synthetic oils in, I have ample Castrol Edge 5W30 (A3/B4), Castrol Magnatec 5W30 (A3/B4) and Shell Helix Ultra 5W40.
I've also just purchased some Ryco SynTec oil filters for the very first time. For the X-Trail, as they had them at 20% off which brought them down to much the same price as the regular Ryco cellulose filters.
But back to the Edge 10W30, it's not SN-Plus so it's not designed to control LSPI in Turbo Direct Injected cars. So I wouldn't use it in a TDI car, but for most non-TDI petrol engine cars on the road in Australia it's probably close to the perfect oil IMO.
Cheers! It's certainly been a while. I had some very bad luck with cars last year... I went back to the UK for a couple of months with the Mrs and after trying to get back into things when I arrived back, someone pulled out and T-boned my AU (with my at the time 10 month old daughter in) then 3 weeks later the head gasket blew on the BMW. I was pretty annoyed being left with no car so quickly so I gave in and got something with a 5* ANCAP and a decent warranty!
That's good to hear, the first fill of the 10w30 Edge is currently at 8,000km and still looks surprisingly good for a direct injection engine. It looks dark but not out of the ordinary and still has a good consistency with what seems minimal fuel dilution.
I also picked up a stack of that Ultraclean too for my old cars, I believe for around $15-16 and I've slowly used it up in the rest of the family's cars as it's not suitable for mine...
Sounds good, and they seem like a great engine those! The A3 would be perfect for that, I will most likely start using the 5w30 after the warranty period.
Yeah that's what I did too, first time I've seen the Syntec filters on sale so I might buy a few more. They are incredibly expensive for my car now (Z79) at $23ea for the Syntec ($18 on sale) where I used to pay $4-9 for the Z9s for the Falcon which were 3x the size haha
Yeah I'm not overly worried about pre-detonation in mine, DI but no turbo and has dual CVVT, plus I only run 95-98 anyway. Figured I might as well since it uses half the fuel the Falcon used to haha
Hey Mate, good to see you again. It's been awhile, did you have an AU Falcon previously ? Congratulations on the new ride.
Yes I have used Castrol Edge 10W30 (A5/B5) in my ‘06 Holden Astra, it went fine, a good oil that didn't burn and stayed clean looking (for what that is worth). I would use again, but I scored some GTX UltraClean 15W40 (A3/B3) at better than half price so I'll probably work my way through that and other blends I have for the Astra.
I've just purchased a new (to me) 2013 Nissan X-Trail 4x4, with the 2.5L 4-cylinder petrol (gas) engine (QR25DE). Which I believe is much the same car with the same engine as the Nissan Rogue in North America. This is the car I'll start running my full synthetic oils in, I have ample Castrol Edge 5W30 (A3/B4), Castrol Magnatec 5W30 (A3/B4) and Shell Helix Ultra 5W40.
I've also just purchased some Ryco SynTec oil filters for the very first time. For the X-Trail, as they had them at 20% off which brought them down to much the same price as the regular Ryco cellulose filters.
But back to the Edge 10W30, it's not SN-Plus so it's not designed to control LSPI in Turbo Direct Injected cars. So I wouldn't use it in a TDI car, but for most non-TDI petrol engine cars on the road in Australia it's probably close to the perfect oil IMO.
Cheers! It's certainly been a while. I had some very bad luck with cars last year... I went back to the UK for a couple of months with the Mrs and after trying to get back into things when I arrived back, someone pulled out and T-boned my AU (with my at the time 10 month old daughter in) then 3 weeks later the head gasket blew on the BMW. I was pretty annoyed being left with no car so quickly so I gave in and got something with a 5* ANCAP and a decent warranty!
That's good to hear, the first fill of the 10w30 Edge is currently at 8,000km and still looks surprisingly good for a direct injection engine. It looks dark but not out of the ordinary and still has a good consistency with what seems minimal fuel dilution.
I also picked up a stack of that Ultraclean too for my old cars, I believe for around $15-16 and I've slowly used it up in the rest of the family's cars as it's not suitable for mine...
Sounds good, and they seem like a great engine those! The A3 would be perfect for that, I will most likely start using the 5w30 after the warranty period.
Yeah that's what I did too, first time I've seen the Syntec filters on sale so I might buy a few more. They are incredibly expensive for my car now (Z79) at $23ea for the Syntec ($18 on sale) where I used to pay $4-9 for the Z9s for the Falcon which were 3x the size haha
Yeah I'm not overly worried about pre-detonation in mine, DI but no turbo and has dual CVVT, plus I only run 95-98 anyway. Figured I might as well since it uses half the fuel the Falcon used to haha
