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Get yourself a copy of the Handbook. It will guide you well.
As for engine oils, concentrate on the viscosity and the ACEA specs quoted on the tin. Here's what the Handbook says: Choose whatever brand you want as long as these parameters are met. Big Auto brands have big prices as well, but Tesco's ACEA A2 or A3 are fine if that's where your budget is. The ACEA specs default the choice as a semi-synthetic type. Quote:
The STS (this is the best the search system can do): https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=013872...%20&gsc.page=1 TC Last edited by T-Cut; 5th January 2018 at 17:04.. |
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As for Peakyblinders well worth a watch...you will be hooked by this northern gangland tale from the 1920s based partially on fact...brilliant! On third series now
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Just to update this thread the fuel filter repair kit seems to have done the trick replacing the crushed and split seal and starting is now great on the button in mild or freezing weather. Also, no more clatter on start up at all! Cant believe it. I guess adding a litre of oil stabilizer has finally done the trick though will use 10w 40 in future. Did a longer run to Keele and back on motorway and A roads at decent speeds without any major traffic hold ups (or breakdown this time) and achieved around 45 mpg tank topped up to tank top up so not bad at all for an old girl of 14 years at all! The stainless steel exhaust back box is just starting to mellow a little working with the K and N filter perhaps or maybe I am just getting used to the growl it makes after driving a few hundred more miles. Finally, I have a Kenwood face off stereo fitted may even be original I guess with blue back lighting and it suddenly stopped working on journey home. Some spray of contact cleaner on the copper contacts back at the ranch seems to have brought it back to life for the moment...for this month at least I love driving my ZT! Looking out for others to flash my headlights to, but so far only saw one on the M40 in the opposite carriageway flying past....happy motoring all!!! |
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19th January 2018, 06:59 | #16 |
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Hi and welcome to the club!
As you already may have experienced, these cars has something with them that just gets under your skin... Oil discussions always tends to be like opening a can of worms... The K-engine is an old design which saw the daylight somewhere in the beginning of the -90`s IIRC. So it basically takes most modern oils without any problem. 5w-30 will probably work fine, but you may experience some oil consumption as its a bit thinner at operating temperature than the OEM speced oil. Personally, I have always used a fully synthetic 5w-40 oil in these engines which comply to the VW 502 standard. Why? - It has the correct viscosity at operating temperature - It is a bit thinner at cold start, aiding better lubrication and easier "turn around" in sub zero temperatures. - It has better cleaning properties than the semi synthetic oil, keeping the engine cleaner inside and prevent the tappets and piston rings to seize up. It also has a tendency to loosen up seized tappets over time and quiet them down. - Once back around the millennium, VW specified the 502 oil spec as a minimum requirement for their 1.8 turbo engine as this oil had better cleaning additives than the regular oils at that time. They had massive problems in the US with their turbo engines seizing up due to carbon build ups. So basically, using an oil with this spec you know it helps keeping it clean inside. - This oil is not expensive either... - Many will probably disagree on some of these points, but it seems that picking the right oil some times is a personal thing P.S. My 18 year old, 62000 miles KV6 engine has ran on synthetic oils since new, regulary changed each year. Engine looks nearly new inside: Last edited by beinet1; 19th January 2018 at 08:28.. |
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