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[Ken L]

It's the least expensive VX semi on Ebay, 4X5ltr cans £39.95 + postage of £9.75 . I didn't check the postage on the other offers there, but the next cheapest was £40 for 4X5ltre cans.
 Any info on the spark plug question? The iridium ones I found are BKR6EIX for my car £48 for 6 plugs...free postage.

[Grrrrrr]

Says 4x5l but in quantity says 1 of 4 available. 4 cans of 5l for £40 doesn't sound too bad. 1 5l can at £40 sounds like robbery. All a bit vague for me to part with cash.

[tunnie]

It's the least expensive VX semi on Ebay, 4X5ltr cans £39.95 + postage of £9.75 . I didn't check the postage on the other offers there, but the next cheapest was £40 for 4X5ltre cans.
 Any info on the spark plug question? The iridium ones I found are BKR6EIX for my car £48 for 6 plugs...free postage.

WTF!?? 

GM ones are about £1 each!

[Selseybill]

It's the least expensive VX semi on Ebay, 4X5ltr cans £39.95 + postage of £9.75 . I didn't check the postage on the other offers there, but the next cheapest was £40 for 4X5ltre cans.
 Any info on the spark plug question? The iridium ones I found are BKR6EIX for my car £48 for 6 plugs...free postage.

WTF!?? 

GM ones are about £1 each!

is that plugs or ltrs of oil ?

[Ken L]

They're Iridium ones...not standard plugs, I can get plugs for a quid each too at my local spares shop. The Iridium ones for my MR2 cost me £34 for 4.

 I don'ìt like putting cheap crap in my engines, I only want the cheap oil to flush out the cheap crap someone else put in. Look after the car...and it will look after you, never had a breakdown yet..except a wheel bearing on a Transit, and fuel filter on a Rover V8.

[davethediver]

GM plugs are made by Bosch so good stuff really, its cheaper to buy them from VX then buying the equivalent bosch part. No real benefit to buying spark plugs at daft money imo

[Ken L]

Standard plugs are good for up to 25,000 miles, Iridium ( and Platinum) are made of precious metals( the electrodes), iridium is one of the densest of metals, these plugs keep their gap and efficiency for up to 60,000 miles, create a stronger spark, better running engine.

[Ken L]

That £48 for six plugs by the way is Ebay price, I've not tried locally yet to see if I can get them any cheaper.

[ENFIELD_MV6]

from what i can remember when i worked in a local car acc shop there was only 4 makers of car oil (no doubt will stand corrected) mobil/shell/castrol and valvoline so it will be made buy one of them

[ENFIELD_MV6]

i must say i peffer iridium plugs in a car do give a more powerfull better spark and do last longer

[Ken L]

A local service centre near to me had their bulk oil supplied by Mobil...( now BP )

[ENFIELD_MV6]

A local service centre near to me had their bulk oil supplied by Mobil...( now BP )

it is good stuff and it is getting cheaper i found somewere when out and about 10w40 semi synt mobil oil for about £10.99 for 5lt

[tunnie]

Its £1ish  each for the GM plugs which on paper last 20k, don't belive all the marketing bull about those other plugs.

3.2 V6's run just fine on stock GM plugs, no need to waste your money on 60k iridium ones, i bet if you got in a the exact same car with GM plugs vs iridium you will not notice any difference.

[Ken L]

You can look at it that way if you want Tunnie, with most things these days you do get what you pay for, also there are advertising standards a company has to consider if it wants to stay in business, ...I probably won't notice the difference if i put £4.95 for 5ltrs supermarket oil in the car, or Mobil 1, but I might later on down the line!

[davethediver]

But changing a set of plugs every 20-25k at a cost of £12 is one thing when they start to go put new ones in, going cheap on oil is false economy all round, all manner of problems can be had.

All tunnie is saying is that most members on here use VX semi synthetic oil its cheap enough (even for quick changes) and its dosent mayo up (castrol) on the V6's as much.