1 litre of oil in 1000 miles - exessive?

Lol get some STP in there..

It's not really excessive tbh depending on the car, I spose on a high mileage Fiesta it is about right. (Again no dis respect to your car)

My ZR has drunk a lot of oil since I got it, but that's down to how I drive.

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OP

Part of the problem is nobody can agree on the correct grade of oil for my car, I am using 15-30 at the moment.

I've already did the STP thing, I think the smoke has cleared up a bit since then but I am always very cautious about them engine treatments.

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You know what I found quite funny

Today I was in Tesco lookin at their car care products. They actually sell their own brand of oil, seriously who the **** would buy tesco value car oil!?

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castroneves

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That sounds a lot to me, I use Asda oil in my '87 Astra, its got 180000 on the clock, of which ive done 35000 and not a hickup.

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That's good going, what engine is it?

Can't beat old school 8 valve vauxhall engines for reliabilty

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Ryan

You know what I found quite funny

Today I was in Tesco lookin at their car care products. They actually sell their own brand of oil, seriously who the **** would buy tesco value car oil!?

If your car is worth £300 then you might not care too much that cheap oil is possibly doing long term damage. i remember my dads Lada had warn out oil seals at 67k, and the exhaust fumes were pure blue, he would buy the cheapest £2 Wilko oil and pour it in once a week.

Thankfully he never bothered with the last MOT, he scrapped instead :biggrin:

Cast is that the old 8v block you have in there? They are brilliant engines and will just go and on and on, I know there are plenty of 200k Caviliers with the 2.0 8v engine. Its a shame the Vectra didn't have this ancient but reliable engine block.

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Ryan

That's good going, what engine is it?

Can't beat old school 8 valve vauxhall engines for reliabilty

I have been thinking of getting a 2.0 cavvy as my next banger for about £400, at least I iwll have a bit of power, electric everything and very simple machanics.

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pghstochaj

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Ryan

You know what I found quite funny

Today I was in Tesco lookin at their car care products. They actually sell their own brand of oil, seriously who the **** would buy tesco value car oil!?

Who do you think makes non-branded oil....it's cheap mineral oil just like any cheap mineral oil be it from a major manufacturer or not. I wouldn't use it but I wouldn't use any branded cheap mineral oil either.

1 litre/1000 miles is excessive AT, and could be a sign of a problem. My friend's Ibiza TDi used that for the first 5k run in period but now it has settled down thankfully. Never pay £10/1 litre.

I don't know of much that uses 15/30, is that an older engine oil? I wouldn't know my older oils. Maybe this would help:

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post?t=12783

So 5/30 or 10/40. 5/30 seems far too low but if the handbook says so it can't be that wrong.

Read:
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post?t=28979

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castroneves

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Ryan

That's good going, what engine is it?

Can't beat old school 8 valve vauxhall engines for reliabilty

Its the 1300, i bought that car for 150 quid expecting it to be a sack of crap, and its just kept going and going and going. Ill never slag off vauxhall ever again.

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I tried to blow my 1.2 8valve up when we had the snow

It sat on the limiter for more than 30 seconds and it just took it like a man

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pghstochaj

Who do you think makes non-branded oil....it's cheap mineral oil just like any cheap mineral oil be it from a major manufacturer or not. I wouldn't use it but I wouldn't use any branded cheap mineral oil either.

1 litre/1000 miles is excessive AT, and could be a sign of a problem. My friend's Ibiza TDi used that for the first 5k run in period but now it has settled down thankfully. Never pay £10/1 litre.

I don't know of much that uses 15/30, is that an older engine oil? I wouldn't know my older oils. Maybe this would help:

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post?t=12783

So 5/30 or 10/40. 5/30 seems far too low but if the handbook says so it can't be that wrong.

Read:
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post?t=28979

I wonder if its possible to get that draining plug out without any jacks :biggrin:

I don't have any off street parking.

Mind you it has so little oil in at the moment that there is probably nothing to drain :p:

At least the oil preasure light hasn't come on.

Edit - just checked the receipt fromt he garage and he used 10/40 fully synth.

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pghstochaj

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Well it won't be fully synth, no matter what he says or even the bottle :wink:

It will be semi-synth, I reckon J.C will be able to suggest whether this is your problem on an older car, certainly better than me.

Oil pressure light is just that though, not a level, just because you have oil pressure doesn't mean your oil is working sufficiently. Be warey.

If you have a decent kerb you can sometimes park it half on the kerb and fit under, depending on the car. But if the oil has only been in there a month and burnt off there's little point in draining what's left, I would just top it up.

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gbduo

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Well you shouldn't mix synthetic and mineral oils together, if you want to change from one to the other you need to thourghly get rid of one or the other before you do so. Mineral oil and Synthetic don't mix, at all.

On a Fiesta, use synthetic oils, you only use mineral oils on really old cars (like the E) because they have always ran on mineral oils as that was all that was availiable.

So, put some Castrol GTX in, that will do nicely, 10-30w is about normal, i think!

litre/1000 miles is nothing abnormal.

Graham

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OP

I did put some GTX in it put I have a horrible feeling it was the mineral stuff :frown:

. Maybe draining the oil out is the best solution. Where do I find out how much oil to put in? I guess it will be in my Haynes manual.

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Stubo

yeh, probably around a gallon. cars vary a bit. I know vectra was just over the gallon to fill it to the mark and the corsa b was just a bit under.

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