ALDI have advertised that 5 litres of Castrol GTX 20w/50 oil for
UNDER $20 Saturday - tomorrow...

I paid $42 for 5 litres a couple of months ago... locally
YIKES

LEE

Aldi or Supercheap?
Supercheaps GTX 20w50 sale is on tommorrow too.

ALDI

I think its its around $17-99 for 5 litres

I haven't seen a supercheap add

It was also on sale at BIG W last week about $22 ??

LEE

Hi Lee

is that in the cooking oil isle? I prefer Nulon

If I could get 5 litres of Nulon for $26 I would switch...

I'm not buying from an auto shop again... much too expensive..

and as I change the oil frequently... between 1000 & 1500klms..

I'm not going to use an expensive oil... or AN EL CHEAPO oil....

lots of cheap oil about -- under $20 5 litres..

cheers

LEE

Hi Lee

I buy Nulon in 20 litre drums, I use the same oil in Davids bug, my wifes Prado and Davids Skyline

I've had bad experiences in the past with Valvoline and Castrol. Plus Nulon have sponsored the VW Nationals in past.

Steve

Lee, just a question, why do you feel the need to change the oil so often, that's much sooner than VW say to do it to my knowledge and the oils are better these days than they were back then ( I presume)

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Hi Donn

as soon as the oil goes black..... which means dirty...

VW Mexico recommended 1000 miles oil changes... and that was up till they stopped making Beetles in 2003..

My strainer is always cleaned out .. CBPerformance - Extra Sump - finer filter-
very fine gauze.. needs to be cleaned... every oil change...

Castrol GTX

LEE

wow, 1000 k oil changes. That means I'd need to change the oil in my T5 TDI van every time I filled up with desiel.....

you are definetly better off running a better quality oil of the correct viscocity and running it for 5-10,000 k than running a cheap oil and doing an oil change every 1000 or 1500 kms.

The trick is to ensure you change your filter and in the aircooled engines remove and wash the strainer EVERY oil change. Also if you are doing short runs only and city traffic then a blast up the freeway for an hour or so to get everything hot every so often is worth hundreds of dollars in service costs savings. And more fun than changing the oil on a Saturday morning.

Lee has to change the oil so often because it's full of water...

I know...

I just needed to change My oil ....

but when its available for $17-99 or $24.99

I buy it...

LEE


Donn
it doesn't matter how expensive the oil is...
it still needs to be changed frequently..
as dirt is sucked into the engine from behind the crankshaft pulley....
oil changes from VW Germany was 3000 miles...
in severe conditions... stop start -= or dusty conditions
1500 miles changes...

unless You have a spin on oil filter ...

LEE

just think if you changed your oil at 5k like most of the planet your engine would be way better off with a betr quality oil
so every 1k costs you on average say 22 big ones
so by the 5k you have spent over a hungee on crisco equiv
really spend the $ on something decent like say fuchs n have many dollars left over in ya pocket to spend on some more paint or something fun you'd like to do n have more time to spend with your family n friends
no brainer

Oil gets dirty fast in VW air cooled engines as they suck in dust behind the crankshaft pulley every time You take Your foot off the throttle at revs....

regardless of how expensive the oil is...

IMHO

LEE

maybe so
but
really.. my old 1100 in my 54 when I got it still went like an ox when I got the car like over 15 yrs ago
still an orig engine n still went like the hammers
it has been replaced with an upgrade
nothing lasts forever n for the minute bit of wear that your referring too for an engine it doesn't make economic sense to be so anal in oil changes
honestly life is too short to be wasting it on polluting the planet with clean oil
c'mon Lee time to go see a movie or join the bowls club old bean

The real question-
no-brainer or know-brainer?

I always use a good quality oil rather than cheap. When I was young Dad spent up big and got the motor out of the Valiant reconditioned as it was going through about 4LT of cheapo Woolies oil a fortnight. When It was stripped down though, the engine builders said we could have done it a lot easier by putiing some diesel in instead of oil and running it around the block. Why? The cheap oil had gummed up all the rings.
At a vintage car club night a rep fro Castrol came and talked for 2 hours about oil. Verdict? New good quality oils are far better for your engine ( even vintage) than the sludge they used to produce.

Sorry Lee, didn't mean to start a shit fight, though how you know it's dirty has me wondering,one looks dirty within 200k and I have an external oil filter.

Good oils can actually go black quite quick depending on the circumstances they are being used in. Quicker than some cheap oils.

Some higher quality oils will emulsify contaminants in your motor so they will come out with the oil change, rather that stay gummed to the inside of your motor.

So while oil going blacker is a sign of contaminants, it is also a sign of good oil doing it's job. That is keeping your motor cleaner.

I work in the power industry , one place has 36 x 3516 cat engines running on gas, the genius in purchasing found out that castrol deisel oil was cheaper than the synthetic oil that was being used, changed over to the castrol and the make up oil in between services tripled, in the end it cost more to use the cheap oil than the synthetic that had been in use before, then the cam shaft and cam follower failures begun, this happened on about half of the engines, i got tyred of changing them out, would not use a castrol oil in my oil can, every were that i have worked that used it all had issues, good oil costs good money, BP now owns castrol, they used to make the best mineral oil, Course Plus, ran it for years with out a issue. not any more.

sorry for a stupid question, but what is the best oil for a 1200 ?