Car oil

Whats the cheapest place to get car oil from?

Don't wanna go halfrauds or a garage as they charge so much

Any ideas?

thanks

Reply to
Michael B
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Buy cheap oil and you get cheap oil. Do you value you your cars engine? You can buy cheap shit from Tesco for £2.97 a gallon.

Reply to
gazzafield

Unless you change your oil every 2000miles though you risk black-Death using this oil... Look for specific recognised standards such as SJ etc... - Look at

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You can buy relatively cheap good oil from GSF car parts (German Swedish and French)
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Andy

Reply to
Nik&Andy

He wasn't necessarily looking for cheap oil - more like good oil at reasonable to low prices.

If you can become a member and there is one in your area, I have found that CostCo do reasonable prices on some castrol oils.

Mike

Reply to
Mr Mike Nospam

The message from "gazzafield" contains these words:

I've had cars where the oil was possibly the most valuable part of the whole thing - he may be the same.

Reply to
Guy King

What used to be West Midlands Farmers (now the Country Store or summat) sell Q8 oils at very reasonable prices, a gallon of semi synth SJ spec 15W40 is around £8.50.

Reply to
Malc

My present car cost £50. It's done 10,000miles for me and is still going strong because I am willing to pay a massive £10 every 4 to 5000 miles and give it some decent oil.

Reply to
gazzafield

The message from "gazzafield" contains these words:

How sure are you of the "because"?

Reply to
Guy King

Good old Castrol GTX, never let me down in a multitude of cars. If your only going to do one bit of maintenance on your car, change the oil and filter.

Reply to
gazzafield

Thinking of getting a trade membership for CostCo but I do wonder if the whole wholesale business in this country is a bit of a red herring. For instance, I visit a local "trade-only" hardware wholesaler. The prices here are very good as compared to the high street, argos etc but still do not compete with the majority of Ebay traders.

Reply to
DocDelete

Yup - I'd like this one too. Magantec in 5 gallon drums for the 3 cars have to service would be nice, at present I just grab several canisters off Halfords shelves when they are doing the "but one get on free" and similar offers.

Reply to
R. Murphy

Try your local breakers yard, remember to take your own can and funnel though.

Reply to
SimonJ

Heh, sounds familiar. My last car leaked oil so fast it was hardly there long enough to tell "good" oil from "bad". I used the cheapest stuff I could get from my local auto spares shop; around £3 a gallon. The engine ran just fine, apart from the black streak on the road that traced my every journey.

Better oil, and a pay-and-display ticket for two hours in Manchester, and I could've doubled the car's value. ;)

Cheers,

Reply to
SmileyFace

Well that ..... and a fair bit of luck too I'd wager.

Reply to
DougP

You may laugh but a friend's father works in a scrappies and they often find part used cans of oil in the back of cars. That and the petrol they empty out of the tanks does have some small impact on their cost of motoring.

Reply to
Malc

A friend used to put a drip tray under his car if he stopped for more than

30 min then poured the stuff back into the top of the engine.
Reply to
Malc

"gazzafield"

I use Tesco 10/40 oil @ £5.98 a tub. The engine's done over 140k and burns a fair bit of oil so ain't worth anything better. The really cheap stuff is usually 20/50 and too thick for my car otherwise I'd bang that in. Does anyone know a cheaper place for 10/40?

Reply to
Mark

Mark ( snipped-for-privacy@invalidaddress.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

If it's that foooked, I can't imagine the difference between 10/40 and

20/50 will be important. With a few notable exceptions (wasn't it Ford Zetecs?), I don't think it's massively vital anyway - and I know for a fact that many smaller garages just have one bulk oil tank...
Reply to
Adrian

I tried the 20/50 stuff and also Castrol GTX High Mileage oil but it causes sticky valves. It's a Daewoo Nexia and should use semi-synthetic

10/40, but given that it's about 1 MOT away from the scrap yard it just isn't worth pouring good expensive oil into the beast. It's runs quite nicely on Tesco 10/40 - although their oil does pong a bit!
Reply to
Mark

Buy a decent oil in bulk - say 25 gallon drums. From a good motor factor.

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Dave Plowman (News)

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