LIDL engine oil £6.95/ 5 litres
09 August 2006, 02:41 PM
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LIDL engine oil £6.95/ 5 litres
Anyone use this stuff ? 15W/40 rated API SJ/CF-4/CF whatever that means and is suitable for all petrol and diesel engines incl those with turbos
09 August 2006, 03:29 PM
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now i know you can get some good bargins in Lidl but i have a sneaky feeling that in the long term this might not be one of them!
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09 August 2006, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Bat-Fink
Too busy being Captain Jack or DCI Gene Kunt.
Oh look theres a typo and i can't correct it
Oh look theres a typo and i can't correct it
I promised myself not to be childish anymore but I cant fight this one.
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Originally Posted by tim's wrx
Anyone use this stuff ? 15W/40 rated API SJ/CF-4/CF whatever that means and is suitable for all petrol and diesel engines incl those with turbos
OR
If you do keep my phone number handy.
David APi Engines / APi Impreza
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09 August 2006, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by tim's wrx
Anyone use this stuff ? 15W/40 rated API SJ/CF-4/CF whatever that means and is suitable for all petrol and diesel engines incl those with turbos
Ignore the prophets of doom on here - I have been using Comma Oil for over a year now and ABSOLUTELY nothing has happened except I have saved myself £££££££££££'s!!
This is what I use:- http://www.commaoil.com/Product%20%2...s/eurolite.gif
But, check carefully that it actually meets Subarus recommended oil spec first!
Knowing LIDL it is probably fantastic stuff that is sold under another name at £35 for 5 Litres elsewhere
Expensive Oil is a con - buy what Subaru state and all will be well ...... for 100,000's of miles!!!
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09 August 2006, 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by ethanrob
will LIDL do us group buy's on the oil and gear **** range pete !
Nowt wrong with the gearknob!!
Not looked at the oil as yet!
Pete
09 August 2006, 07:19 PM
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Even the ECP counter bloke didnt know that they did it: I was told initially that it was onyl available in 4 litre containers at £20+ (RRP £29:99).
09 August 2006, 08:04 PM
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09 August 2006, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Bat-Fink
Wouldn't use it at all.
Those of us who know about oil will always have a little more beer money in our pockets! LOL
09 August 2006, 08:59 PM
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When you are old enough to drive, let alone own a car(then add 3 years at least before you will be able to any type of turbo charged impreza!)
ive usually used magnatec 10w 40. i think thats the expensive castrol stuff is it not? dont use it for the cost, or the expensive tv adverts but because ive heard good things from mates etc with turbocharged engines.
what is probably best then for a 13 year old engine in a import wrx as im looking at an oil change soon. (and if anybody says the scrappy il be really mad and turn green!!) grrrr
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09 August 2006, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by suffolkdar
When you are old enough to drive, let alone own a car(then add 3 years at least before you will be able to any type of turbo charged impreza!) Then you can have your say on lubrication................ If Jesus himself came down to most of the posters on here and said Any "15-40"oil was as good as any other "15-40" Reguardless of name or price they will still pay way too much!
Those of us who know about oil will always have a little more beer money in our pockets! LOL
Those of us who know about oil will always have a little more beer money in our pockets! LOL
No need for you to be some jumped up **** on a keyboard.
Originally Posted by chocolate_o_brian
bit harsh lol. im on 22 been driving 5 months and have a wrx (not a chav, dont own a cap or listen to hardcore, and neither have i a pair of reebok classics/tracky bottoms for sunday best)
ive usually used magnatec 10w 40. i think thats the expensive castrol stuff is it not? dont use it for the cost, or the expensive tv adverts but because ive heard good things from mates etc with turbocharged engines.
what is probably best then for a 13 year old engine in a import wrx as im looking at an oil change soon. (and if anybody says the scrappy il be really mad and turn green!!) grrrr
andy.
ive usually used magnatec 10w 40. i think thats the expensive castrol stuff is it not? dont use it for the cost, or the expensive tv adverts but because ive heard good things from mates etc with turbocharged engines.
what is probably best then for a 13 year old engine in a import wrx as im looking at an oil change soon. (and if anybody says the scrappy il be really mad and turn green!!) grrrr
andy.
09 August 2006, 10:19 PM
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It's the spec of the oil that matters, not what 'label' is on the tin.
For the stupid, Lidl do NOT make oil, they buy it in bulk from some major oil co and sell it. The same as many many others, in many cases the only difference is the packaging. Check the spec and buy the right spec for your engine, the cheaper you get it then good for you.
Put it this way, I could go out and buy 1000 bottles of stella, take off the lables of half of them and put Lidl special lager, price them at £1 a bottle and the 'stella' ones at £4 a bottle and some for 5p just for good measure and I still wouldn't drink the pisswater
For the stupid, Lidl do NOT make oil, they buy it in bulk from some major oil co and sell it. The same as many many others, in many cases the only difference is the packaging. Check the spec and buy the right spec for your engine, the cheaper you get it then good for you.
Put it this way, I could go out and buy 1000 bottles of stella, take off the lables of half of them and put Lidl special lager, price them at £1 a bottle and the 'stella' ones at £4 a bottle and some for 5p just for good measure and I still wouldn't drink the pisswater
09 August 2006, 11:34 PM
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Some excellent posts above ... some people will, indeed, pay through the nose because it's got a particular name on the label ... even though it's the EXACT same spec as some Oil half the price.
It needs to say something like "RallyX, Slikomean, High Performance" and then some half-wit comes onto a BBS and states that it prevents HeatSoak and Big End Failure - it reduces the oval effect on your pistons and brings 15 Virgins to your bed at night!! .... usually the SAME person who is, amazingly, selling the stuff (normally with some offer on, at this time of the year it would be "Summer Clearout" or some such thing)
I'm not saying that the LIDL oil is suitable - but, if the spec matches what Subaru recommend, then it's perfectly fine!
Pete
It needs to say something like "RallyX, Slikomean, High Performance" and then some half-wit comes onto a BBS and states that it prevents HeatSoak and Big End Failure - it reduces the oval effect on your pistons and brings 15 Virgins to your bed at night!! .... usually the SAME person who is, amazingly, selling the stuff (normally with some offer on, at this time of the year it would be "Summer Clearout" or some such thing)
I'm not saying that the LIDL oil is suitable - but, if the spec matches what Subaru recommend, then it's perfectly fine!
Pete
10 August 2006, 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Bat-Fink
Look mate no need to get all personal here i'm just saying that it sounds cheap and my personal opinion.
No need for you to be some jumped up **** on a keyboard.
No need for you to be some jumped up **** on a keyboard.
It really is about time the whole site, or most of it becomes a Paid up members site, it has happend on many other car site/fourms and has worked, those of us who want to trade useful information have no problem paying a modest fee, And it really does stop an awful load of crap being posted, as well as the personal abuse you can see above!
Make of this as you want, after all I'm a jumped up ****(according to a 14 y/o schoolboy)..............................
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