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| StrawbZ |
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Hey Guys
My AUIII XR6 has about 150 000 kms on it and i was wondering what oil i should use this convo has confused me a little :S |
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| tickford_6 |
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Posts: 6449 Joined: 11th Nov 2004 |
{USERNAME} wrote: Hey Guys
My AUIII XR6 has about 150 000 kms on it and i was wondering what oil i should use this convo has confused me a little :S look in your hand book, find the oil spec page and it will tell you to run 10w30 or 15w30. put that in it, if it doesn't burn any of it keep using it. |
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| TROYMAN |
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{USERNAME} wrote: Hey Guys
My AUIII XR6 has about 150 000 kms on it and i was wondering what oil i should use this convo has confused me a little :S im using penrite hpr 5 (5w-40) im my au engine and it just reached the 100,000 km service.. |
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| NAfairlane... |
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I have a merc v8 (ohc) and it has always been a bit noisy but since i got it serviced its been even noisier and sometimes blows oil smoke out the back.
What oil would you guys recommend i run? I'm unsure what the service guys put in. Car is an 83 with 140,000kms but was left sitting for a while around 18 months or more ago. Just wanna quieten it down a bit.
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| brad17djr |
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im doing my head and about to put penrite hpr 30 in my car is that a good idear from running caltex halvoline 15w40?
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| Grimketel |
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For an AU 10-30 is "recomended" from factory, but ford made a big SNAFU with that recomendation, and you should run an AU on 15-40. Problems with internal wear in a lot of cases with early AU's running 10-30 and not getting 100% TLC.
Its good insurance at no extra cost to use a semi/or fully synth 15-40.
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| DARTHVADER |
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SNAFU what is this?
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| jamison17 |
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hey just wanted to kno what oil i should buy like exactly , i have no idea
i have a el swagon 150 000km , would greatly appreciate it. and does oil relate to fuel efficiency? |
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| tickford_6 |
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Posts: 6449 Joined: 11th Nov 2004 |
{USERNAME} wrote: For an AU 10-30 is "recomended" from factory, but ford made a big SNAFU with that recomendation, and you should run an AU on 15-40. Problems with internal wear in a lot of cases with early AU's running 10-30 and not getting 100% TLC.
Its good insurance at no extra cost to use a semi/or fully synth 15-40. most engine these days use 10-30. less oil drag means better fuel economy. the AU engines also run tighter clearences. so what changed from early AU engine to late engine that 'fixed' this 'problem' while they still recomened and used the same grade of oil. |
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| 89.SVO |
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Age: 36 Posts: 3382 Joined: 11th Mar 2008 Ride: EA SVO, AU2, Toyota Crown Location: Bendigo |
so your trying to say that my old XF with 350,000 kms could run the specified 15w40 oil?! pff as if. i had to run 25w60. motors do wear out
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| 89.SVO |
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Age: 36 Posts: 3382 Joined: 11th Mar 2008 Ride: EA SVO, AU2, Toyota Crown Location: Bendigo |
{USERNAME} wrote: I have a merc v8 (ohc) and it has always been a bit noisy but since i got it serviced its been even noisier and sometimes blows oil smoke out the back.
What oil would you guys recommend i run? I'm unsure what the service guys put in. Car is an 83 with 140,000kms but was left sitting for a while around 18 months or more ago. Just wanna quieten it down a bit. run some 20w50
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| tickford_6 |
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Posts: 6449 Joined: 11th Nov 2004 |
{USERNAME} wrote: so your trying to say that my old XF with 350,000 kms could run the specified 15w40 oil?! pff as if. i had to run 25w60. motors do wear out
who said that? did you even read this thread. We all know engines wear. like was said already IF your engine is in good condition and doesn't have oil pressure problems or burn the original specified oil, then use that oil. i've seen plenty of well looked after 300 000km plus old engines still using the original specified oil grade. if you had to use 20w60, then fine thats what your engine wanted. All that i'm saying is you can't throw every high KM engine in the same basket. |
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| tickford_6 |
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Posts: 6449 Joined: 11th Nov 2004 |
just thought i might add in what we've found with the AU we bought.
from the first week we got it, we've been logging the fuel usage. every tank its been pretty much spot on 11.8L per 100km (factory quoted is 11.5) did a service on it a few weeks back, we had run out of 10w30 at work so i used 15w40. I did this for two reasons, 1. it's what we had 2. our oil supplier has been trying convince me that using 15w40 wont' change the full consumption. we have been through 2 tanks of fuel since then. both have returned near on 13l per 100km |
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| snkcorp |
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Just stumbled onto this thread. Thought this link may be handy. It's american and starting to get a bit old but still a lot of useful information
http://www.boss302.com/oil.htm |
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| tickford_6 |
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Posts: 6449 Joined: 11th Nov 2004 |
i'm actually considering use a fuchs 0W20 next service. be interesting to see what happens,
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