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DaviesEB

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Oil Change
« on: 15 January 2009, 17:16:56 »
Can you advice what type of Oil to use and how often theOil should be changed.

I use a Miggy 2.5 V6 Estate
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Re: Oil Change
« Reply #1 on: 15 January 2009, 17:24:49 »
might be worth having a look through previous posts as there have been several discussions on the subject.

The impression I've got is that it's best to use genuine VX oil and change every 4k ish

Hope this helps :y
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Re: Oil Change
« Reply #2 on: 15 January 2009, 17:46:29 »
I use vx 10-40w and do it every 4k as my car is now on 181,000.But mines only a 2L not a 2.5
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Re: Oil Change
« Reply #3 on: 15 January 2009, 18:27:33 »
Yes 10w40 is the correct oil to use. Depending on the sort of mileage you do most people on here tend to change the oil roughly every 4kish or you can change it once a month if doing short journey's i.e 2-3 mile aday to and from work. You can use oil from a factor if you want as they are to manafacture spec so using that oil is fine.

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Re: Oil Change
« Reply #4 on: 17 January 2009, 12:54:24 »
I'm doing on average 7K a year made up of mostly 200 mile drives with the occasional short journey. Would you recommend I be changing the oil more often than the 4k?

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Re: Oil Change
« Reply #5 on: 17 January 2009, 13:42:29 »
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I'm doing on average 7K a year made up of mostly 200 mile drives with the occasional short journey. Would you recommend I be changing the oil more often than the 4k?

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No IMHO, 4 000 is frequent enough.
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Re: Oil Change
« Reply #6 on: 17 January 2009, 16:01:36 »
Thanks alot!!!!

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Re: Oil Change
« Reply #7 on: 17 January 2009, 16:14:21 »
MV6 gets 5.5l of Vauxhall Semi Synth every 3-4k.  If your oil is in a bad way, consider doing a couple of 500m oil changes.

Tractors need it a bit more often, mine gets 6.5l of fresh Vauxhall Semi Synth every 3k maximum, or even more often if it decides to throw it all out everywhere...
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Re: Oil Change
« Reply #8 on: 17 January 2009, 16:39:25 »
I've seen a couple of links on here but are oil changes fairly easy to carry out?
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Re: Oil Change
« Reply #9 on: 17 January 2009, 16:49:07 »
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I've seen a couple of links on here but are oil changes fairly easy to carry out?
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Yes.  Unless a previous garage has done your 2.6 oil filter housing up too tight!
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Re: Oil Change
« Reply #10 on: 17 January 2009, 17:35:59 »
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I've seen a couple of links on here but are oil changes fairly easy to carry out?
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Yes.  Unless a previous garage has done your 2.6 oil filter housing up too tight!
If the filter housing is tight you can undo it with a 3/8 square drive, it's not as likely to slip off as a spanner which means than the skin on your knuckles will remain intact  ;)
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Re: Oil Change
« Reply #11 on: 17 January 2009, 17:37:56 »
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I've seen a couple of links on here but are oil changes fairly easy to carry out?
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Yes.  Unless a previous garage has done your 2.6 oil filter housing up too tight!
If the filter housing is tight you can undo it with a 3/8 square drive, it's not as likely to slip off as a spanner which means than the skin on your knuckles will remain intact  ;)
That can cause the cap to split.
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Re: Oil Change
« Reply #12 on: 17 January 2009, 22:58:54 »
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I've seen a couple of links on here but are oil changes fairly easy to carry out?
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Yes.  Unless a previous garage has done your 2.6 oil filter housing up too tight!
If the filter housing is tight you can undo it with a 3/8 square drive, it's not as likely to slip off as a spanner which means than the skin on your knuckles will remain intact  ;)
That can cause the cap to split.
Not if your careful and put a ring spanner on it as well
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Re: Oil Change
« Reply #13 on: 17 January 2009, 23:03:34 »
Yes put Vauxhall's Semi Synthetic in mate  :y
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