Engine oil recommendation

[Adam-m-h]

Hi I've got a 2.0 16v with 140k on clock thinking of dropping oil and changing it. I would like to know whether to use a semi or full synthetic oil any opinions

Thanks

[Piggy]

What can you afford!?

[Adam-m-h]

Either it wants a full service before winter it gets quite cold up here, so come October it'll get full service just unsure on semi or full with it been high miles.

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What can you afford!?

This is what I plan to use 6 litres Shell Helix HX7 10W-40 £35

Or the alternative is Fuchs TITAN SYN MC 10w-40 6litres £26

[Piggy]

Why 6litres!?

You can gey the shell helix stuff a lot cheaper than that. I run it and its done well

[Adam-m-h]

Sorry it comes as a kit with oil filter. Would you recommend the shell helix? I thought it was a funny amount a iirc it only holds about 4 litres any way

[Toms306]

Semi synth is fine on an XSi engine. For 306s I've always just gone for the cheapest brand/offer on ECP, they're not fussy like more modern engines are lol.

[Adam-m-h]

Semi synth is fine on an XSi engine. For 306s I've always just gone for the cheapest brand/offer on ECP, they're not fussy like more modern engines are lol.

Thanks I'll go to sdl order cheapest 10w40 and an engine flush jobs a gooden

[Toms306]

Cheapest brand, I wouldn't recommend the actual cheapest Tesco value oil lol.

[Adam-m-h]

Cheapest brand, I wouldn't recommend the actual cheapest Tesco value oil lol.

"Every little helps" lol
I think at sdl there cheap stuff is gulf tec plus

[Toms306]

Ah, that'll be fine then.

[Piggy]

Dont cheap out on oil. Magnetex stuff is just clever marketing imo but for the sake of a few quid more...why not get decent oil which is essentially the blood for the engine.

Would you infuse yourself with the cheapest plasma substitue you could find??

[Adam-m-h]

Dont cheap out on oil. Magnetex stuff is just clever marketing imo but for the sake of a few quid more...why not get decent oil which is essentially the blood for the engine.

Would you infuse yourself with the cheapest plasma substitue you could find??

Your right I think for the sake of £10 I'll go for the shell oil.

[impotentials]

I have a 150,000 mile gti and have always used castrol magnatec 10w 40 part syn, it has always run well. Spends you moneys, makes your choices

[Piggy]

£10 over 10,000 miles or so, that 1p for every 10miles...not exactly a huge amount to spend to lengthen the life of your engine!

[Adam-m-h]

I have a 150,000 mile gti and have always used castrol magnatec 10w 40 part syn, it has always run well. Spends you moneys, makes your choices

Thanks I'll have a look.

[Piggy]

Plus if you use eurocarparts Ive just sellected a oil filter and HX7 Shell oil for you engine and it comes to just over £22 delivered mate

[Adam-m-h]

£10 over 10,000 miles or so, that 1p for every 10miles...not exactly a huge amount to spend to lengthen the life of your engine!

When you put it like that is worth the extra money.

[Adam-m-h]

Plus if you use eurocarparts Ive just sellected a oil filter and HX7 Shell oil for you engine and it comes to just over £22 delivered mate

That's even better I'll get some order tomorrow and get it done next week
Thanks for the advice.

[Piggy]

No worries.....

There is a rep button

Dont leave it too late as theres a 50% off sale, not sure when it ends

[Adam-m-h]

No worries.....

There is a rep button

Dont leave it too late as theres a 50% off sale, not sure when it ends

Sorry is it the little plus next to reply ?

[Piggy]

Ahhh cant do it till 100posts it seems!

Thats weird

[Niall]

More to the point, what sort of use does your car get? Thats the biggest deciding factor.
When i used a standard engine, i found the happiest it ever was was with the standard Peugeot oil which is Total 7000. Now I'm on a rather modified engine, I'm using Shell helix ultra but will probably change when i do the next service soon.

[Adam-m-h]

More to the point, what sort of use does your car get? Thats the biggest deciding factor.
When i used a standard engine, i found the happiest it ever was was with the standard Peugeot oil which is Total 7000. Now I'm on a rather modified engine, I'm using Shell helix ultra but will probably change when i do the next service soon.

Hi and I use it daily to go work (60miles per week) and pottering around in it doesn't really any stick
I was going to use shell hx7

[MisterGTR]

Any reason not to use something like mogul 5w50 or even mobil 1 0w40 which have better lower temp protection

[RetroPug]

Any reason not to use something like mogul 5w50 or even mobil 1 0w40 which have better lower temp protection

Peugeot recommend 5w 40, in fact they specifically recommend Total Quartz 7000 or 9000 for the gti-6 engine at least, where 7000 is semi-synthetic and 9000 is fully-synthetic.

Total Quartz 9000 I run mine on this.

I think there was a way of getting it slightly cheaper on here with a discount code iirc.

Any good quality 5w 40 should be fine. As for using other grades, maybe if you are sure of what you are doing, but I wouldn't even bother looking into it myself unless it was for track or I lived in a particularly cold climate, and varying too much from recommended spec could cause problems I'd say.

[Tom85]

These guys are really good if you want to buy Total Quartz:

http://www.nielsencdg.co.uk/acatalog/Tot...l#SID=1074

Free shipping on £60+

I bought 4 x Total Quartz 7000 5L bottles just over £60 delivered

[MisterGTR]

Cheers. Will keep it simple and go with recommended. Ta