What oil do you prefer in your car?

[waynne]

Do you stick with the book? Have you ever wrecked an older engine using a high performance oil.

Personally I tend to stick to makers recommendations and buy the best brand I can. I know some people change oil type in winter summer but can't really see the point over here in the UK.

So what do you fill up with.

[trooper]

I use Castrol GTD Magnatec 10W-40 for normal diesel engines. Never had any problems with it, always used Castrol in all my cars, so stayed with what i know.

[fingers]

Any quality brand 20W50. Any other grade of oil and th hydrolic lifters rattle.

[steveo]

20/50w is for old cars?like a mini

[fingers]

Yup. Becaus older cars are not as precisley manufactured as newer ones, the engine components are not quite as snug a fit as the new ones. The thicker oil takes up the slack in all the bearings.

[Stiggy]

i use castrol as well, if the milage is high enough i use the castrol hig milage, its never let me down

[HDi fun]

Millers XFD 5w/40 fully synthetic for diesl engines that require that grade. It gets the API CH4 classification which is unique to Millers at this time, I think.

For cars I've again stuck with a fully synthetic oil but there's much more competition out there. Millers is up there with the best, but Mobil 1 is hard to fault. Even Halfords' own brand 5w/40 synthetic is a decent oil - manufactured by Esso.

I suggest that you dismiss mineral oils entirely, a good semi is a much better bet for just about any engine. Unless, of course, you're running some tasty 1940's machinery that really does burn some oil intentionally, then you need the good ole mother earth stuff

[StevieDB9]

castrol GTX Magnatec, also helped quieten the noisy tappets a bit

[fingers]

No one'ssaid vegetable yet.

[waynne]

The only time veggie oil goes in my car is if a bunch of newspaper wrapped chips have been fried in them