Just incase it helps anyone i've found you can order oil from asda online and collect from store, i was looking for oil for the Bora (5w40) which is fairly expensive fully synthetic stuff and 5 litres is only £20, 10w40 semi is £16 (i use that in the van) http://direct.asda.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-ASDA-Site/default/Search-Show?q=10W40 you may say supermarket oil is crap but i've read they use millers and re brand it.
Good spot. Just buy the branded though. Asda own is good if you need to flush the engine out before you put decent in. I think many supermarket brands use recycled or lesser refined oil blends to keep the costs down, I maybe wrong but when I have trie it for engine flush you deffo see the difference between that and good stuff.
This stuff is nice and cheap, £7.50 for 4.5L http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Comma-Mot...1?pt=UK_WSJL_Wholesale_GL&hash=item20cdb6e2e7
i did think about the discussion it would generate.....i'm not asking for peoples advice or telling anyone to use it, and yeah i know blah blah cheap oil blah blah...... all i know is the specification is correct for the 1.9 pd engine in my car and it's £20, i've just done a bit of googling and it's exxon mobil on the data sheets - i have no idea what the p/o put in the car before i got it but i suspect it will be fine, at that price i can change it regularly enough - i'm one for changing regular - 10,000 miles on the Bora is not my idea of good maintainance, i've always gone with buy it cheap and change it regular.
There all made to the same specification so between brands there really is no difference in the same rated oil
sorry to butt in....most of supermarket brands are often well known brands made for the supermarkets..to put it another way well known brands in disguise....i apologise again for butting in.
Quantum is what vw use , some cheap oil at Asda! The oil filter is under the big plastic nut infront of the engine ..... Pain in the neck
i have to say, faced with a car with 122k on the clock and 12 years old i'm fine using cheap oil, i figure if any damage is done it's done by now...... if i had a brand new car i'd probably use a big name oil.
Ive not changed the oil in my daily for 3 years i really should do it soon Last fill was on comma oil from the local motorfactors Top ups have been any oil that was to hand when it needed topping up Im treat my daily awfully
When at uni I used to work at a dry dog food plant that bagged it up down an automated line. I stacked the bags, back then it was Kwik Save No Frills then to change to Winalot was nicer bags and a scoop of salt to put a glaze on!!! Same thing and I guess will be the same with oil. I currently work for Land Rover and parts usually have two labels!!!!
I've said this before, when at Lucas we boxed Lucas/Jaguar/Landrover/Unipart etc etc all from the same parts bin with a different box....
