Cheap oil from Lidl

Post by **MikeNash** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:34 pm

As of Monday the 24th of July the Lidl chain stores will have winErgy 5 litre cans of 15W/40 to API SJ/CF-4/CF standard for sale at £6.95 each. It'll be the best price around here for that quality - the same for you? Thought you might want to know. MikeN.

Post by **bmcecosse** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:14 am

Minor does better on 20w50 - the 15w40 stuff is too thin. Ok for modern engines. I just use the 20w50 from ASDA - at £2.74 for 4.5 litres - used it for many years in both Minor and Mini - no problems at all. Just changed Mini engine (because wanted more power) and the gearbox was immaculate - absolutely no sludge or deposits. Yes - it's re-cycled, so is your drinking water!

Post by **rayofleamington** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:18 pm

It'll be the best price around here for that quality - the same for you?

You can get it at that price from screwfix or buy 5 and it's £6.50ish

Post by **dunketh** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:19 pm

I've used asda oil too... used to use it in my XR2. Once again, the head was sludge free - immaculate even - when I came to change it for a big valve monster!
The key is in how often you change it.

Post by **Cam** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:47 pm

SF rated 20W/50 is around £6.50 a gallon around here.

Post by **rayofleamington** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:50 pm

well I paid £7 for SH rated 20/50... I guess that makes me extravagant!

Post by **tickman** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:16 pm

mine cost £10 for 5 liters. but the reciept went to work for my van as i had 5 liters of diesel oil in the garage, this went in the van of course!!

Post by **Kevin** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:28 pm

A strange thing I have noticed at events this year have been traders selling good old fasioned Duckhams 20w50 for around £6:50 but what puzzles me is that it only ever appears at shows and I have not seen any in the motor factors or shops.

Post by **Pyoor_Kate** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:54 pm

One of my local motorfactors stocks it, but it's about 10 quid for the can - hence I use whatever's got a good rating and cheap

Post by **minor_hickup** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:57 pm

My local does as well. I used to use it when it was labelled as '20w50 for older engines' and £9 a gallon. But it was renamed 'classic 20w50 ' and upped to £13!! So now I use silkolene at £9 for 5 litres and it seems to get slightly better oil pressure.

Post by **Kevin** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:30 pm

Thats a good price for Silkolene.

Post by **minor_hickup** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:38 pm

Thats from Scats. All their oils are very reasonable and (apart from the SF rated 20w50) are ACEA a3/b3 rated. They also do Ep 90, and are the only place I can find plus gas locally.

Post by **Robins** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:49 am

The amount of money thats spent on petrol in a car I have never seen the point in buying cheap oil. Have used Penrite for a long time now, I've only seen it at the shows so make sure I have a stock of the stuff, £15 for 4.5 litres of 20w50 I thought was reasonable, although I only use that in my traveller now as I found my van to run better on castrol 15w40 diesel oil, still not cheap but if I can see a benifit I don't mind spending the cash.

Post by **Kevin** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:30 am

I found my van to run better on castrol 15w40 diesel oil,

Well you learn someting everyday I didnt think it was advisable to use diesel oils in petrol cars as they were designed for engines with much greater compressions.

Post by **minor_hickup** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:11 pm

The amount of money thats spent on petrol in a car I have never seen the point in buying cheap oil

Theres also no point in paying more for one oil when another that meets the same specifications costs less!

Post by **RogerRust** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:29 pm

I made my own viscosity measurement by recording the time for 1pt of oil to drain trough my funnel.

Cheap £6 for 5 litre 15 seconds
Castrol Classic - same spec but £13 for 5 litre 28 seconds.

so when is 20 50 not 20 50 - when its castrol.

When I have a spare moment I'm going to repeat the test and try at 20 centigrade and 60 centigrade.

I'm going to use Castrol if I change the oil at 5000 miles this will add £7 per 5000 miles or 0.14 pence per mile or perhap a little more if I have to top up every 1000 miles say 0.25p per mile!!!.

petrol cost 13p per mile at 35 mpg so the odd 0.25 won't make much difference.

I think I can afford it.

Post by **Nigel2** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 6:47 pm

Will be interested to see what happens at 60 deg. Sounds like my kind of experiment!! Please post the results - still looking for a pair of shocks!!
Nigel

Post by **rayofleamington** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:28 am

Nice one Roger. I've made the same conclusion myself but using a worn out engine and the oil light ;-)

Post by **jtd.75** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:18 pm

I was given a right Bo******** by our BT MT workshop once for putting diesel oil in the petrol moggy van that I drove at the time, they said that diesel oil was a detergent oil and did no good to petrol engines. My own theory behind their lodgic I think was to stop the engineers from putting it in their own cars

(as if we would have done such a thing

Post by **Robins** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:11 pm

Oh I wouldn't ever put diesel oil in a petrol engine it doesn't do it any good. I should have explained the reason it works better in my van is because I have a diesel engine to go with it. Sorry for the confusion.