I was standing in line at the servo this week to pay for my fuel when i noticed the girl in front of me was holding a bottle of cheap no name brand engine oil. I thought
to myself why would anyone consider putting that in their car?
To make the situation worse, she walked out the door and started heading towards a current model Golf TDI. I couldn't help myself and after paying for my fuel, ran over to her and said 'I hope your not going to put that cheap oil in your Golf?'
She accepted my offer the come over to my place nearby where I put the approved Castrol VW505/01 spec oil in it (which i use in my Passat). She offered to pay but i declined. I had done my good deed for the day and saved another volkswagen from running on cheap servo oil!
bond 路
why must people intervene?
is it really to do a good deed? or merely an attempt to pick up? 馃檪
nick
Volkswagenboy 路
My thoughts exactly, Nick!
Good to hear someone cares enough to go out of thier way to save another VW...
Kinda reminds me of that Magnatec advert with the hippy; 'Stop engine cruelty!'.
A good deed done is a good deed earnt.
-Staggers.
70Beetle 路
bond wrote:why must people intervene?
is it really to do a good deed? or merely an attempt to pick up? 馃檪
nick
Would have done the same thing for anyone. Anyway turned out she had a husband and two kids!
Craig Torrens 路
but the husband was overseas for work, the kids were at school and she was feeling bored and unloved ????!!!
phatratpat 路
servo pick up.....I like it ! !馃槈
Craig Torrens 路
use the cheap oil for the "body rub"..... Grrrrrrrr馃槀
VWCOOL 路
Cheap se...err, oil is better than no oil at all
VWFREAK 路
Craig Torrens wrote:use the cheap oil for the "body rub"..... Grrrrrrrr馃槀
lol
That would leave a nasty taste in your mouth.
Iwish4aSynchro 路
Craig Torrens wrote:but the husband was overseas for work, the kids were at school and she was feeling bored and unloved ????!!!
she said after her dress lifted to reveal
frenzix 路
it would be acceptable to buy it if it was used for what i use it for which is a 91 liberty that is about to explode.
jo_tas 路
I remember feeling bad when i was buying some home-brand oil at the supermarket once.
It was to put on the timber walls of the new shed... 馃槀
And thats all i would use it for..
shaihulud 路
Ive done worse than use cheap oil.
I once had a Datsun Bluebird Pagoda Roof from the early 1960s. It was when I was a hippie-on-a-hill near Quaama in NSW. The engine was so clapped out that I got a drum of used oil, free, from a local service station and poured it through the engine at a great rate. It kept the car going for months.
I sold it when it started to rattle a bit too much. The guy who bought it, replaced the water pump, which was the rattle, flushed the engine, put new oil and two cans of Nulon in it and drove it to Queensland and back.
The oil must have been a cocktail of petrol engine and diesel engine oils, along with gearbox and differential oils. It was a potent brew but it kept that old engine alive.
I used the residue in the 44 gallon drum to preserve and whiteant proof fence posts and shed stumps. Further coktailed with creosote it worked a treat.
kombikim 路
I had a mini that used heaps of oil, out the exhaust, so I used to use the oil drained from oil changes in my other car, I think that is recycling isn't it?
pete wood 路
I think you'll find that failing to change the filter is a much greater sin than putting crap oil in..but yeah, not so hot in a new TDi motor. which makes me wonder, why on earth did it need oil if it was new? should still be under waranty and not be leaking anything.
68AutoBug 路
Your engine is only as good as the oil in it...
so a good engine deserves the best....
although using Mobil One synthetic is a bit too far...:P:P
If You have a noisey engine better to use 20w/60 engine oil...
I've never used cheap no name oil in any of My cars even when the engine was burning oil...
Lee
68AutoBug 路
PLUS as someone said....
If You Don't change the Oil Filter...
why change the oil???
[this is aimed at water cooled cars]
Lee
57oval 路
You can use cheap oil and diesel as a good engine flush, you will be amazed at the amout of crap and sludge it will remove to keep your good new oil cleaner for longer.
Adsman 路
shaihulud wrote:Ive done worse than use cheap oil.
I once had a Datsun Bluebird Pagoda Roof from the early 1960s. It was when I was a hippie-on-a-hill near Quaama in NSW. The engine was so clapped out that I got a drum of used oil, free, from a local service station and poured it through the engine at a great rate. It kept the car going for months.
I sold it when it started to rattle a bit too much. The guy who bought it, replaced the water pump, which was the rattle, flushed the engine, put new oil and two cans of Nulon in it and drove it to Queensland and back.
The oil must have been a cocktail of petrol engine and diesel engine oils, along with gearbox and differential oils. It was a potent brew but it kept that old engine alive.
I used the residue in the 44 gallon drum to preserve and whiteant proof fence posts and shed stumps. Further coktailed with creosote it worked a treat.
Forgive me but you did say Datsun....isn't it the norm to use secondhand oil run through a pair of pantyhose. Besides gearbox, diff, engine oil it all burns the same in a datsun.
blutopless2 路
pete wood wrote:why on earth did it need oil if it was new? should still be under waranty and not be leaking anything.
not necessarily true with modern motors and especially with oil changes stretching out to 15000 k's.
new motors still use oil. specially if they are hunting really good fuel economy figures - like the Gen3 v8 for the commodores. the amount they use varies between motors etc... but have read on the watercooled sites (particularly in the US) that the new vdubs can use enough oil between services that the oil warning light comes on... so she may have just been topping up between servicing.