Manufacturing date only...

Korek... msia price always

Do they provide wife?

Is that because there is a cartel or tax on imported motor oil?

Why not? They are bussiness afterall, going around to make more money.

Because malaysian love brands more than quality nor bother to think and everything is expensive exclusively because of the gomen.it eazy to take advantage of such behaviour. Be it phone,telco,cars,bike,foods and so on.

not that desperate mang

Otherwise T & H kenot sell here...

i know this is an old topic, i saw one comment above of this member using tesco engine oil and found no problems with it.

as for homebrand tesco stuff, undeniably it is of lower quality. especially when it says tesco value. HOWEVER, the homebrand stuff sold in UK (made in UK/EU) tesco branded things are actually good, comparable with good brands and value for money.

even in australia, their coles/woolworths homebrand stuffs are actually okay and not lousy as our own home brand.

So in summary, its a malaysian problem. they sell homebrand, but sell lousy stuff.

U tried their engine oil? I mean the tesco brand engine oil.

Used the TESCO oil before. no problem whatsoever.

You guys should watch out those oils that you purchase from spare part shop

Heard majority are recycled. Had a friends fren doing this kilang recycle, supposing for own usage of lorry fleet with license but with miracle often ends up in spare part shops

Been using Tesco 20W50 mineral oil in my Volvo 940 turbo for years. No problems.

Cheap, does the job and you know Tesco won't sell minyak tipu like spare parts shops.

The only downside is that if you post abt it here, tak glamour & tak hebat je la.

When i change oil, i'm using those better brand ones like Repsol, Castrol blah blah. But for me the most important is oil weight. I usually go for 15-50 or 15-60w. Rare weights on the cheap scale that made them not cheap. I do have Tesco 10-40 semi for my top up. Would rather buy this than single weight top up which does not add to anything. But you are right, any normal driving does not need expensive oils.

I'm still pondering if it is true some NGV taxi are using cooking oil to lube their cars...

Yes. It's cleaner. However the flash point is lower, so don't trash your car hard

Hello everyone. I am new in this forum & this is my 1st posting. I own a Proton Waja (Campro, 2006). Since the warranty has expired, I do the minor service at ordinary workshops, but the major service is still done at Proton Service Centre.

The main reason why I do minor service at ordinary workshop is because of the very long queue taken at big Proton Service Centres. Initially I went to an ordinary workshop empty handed. However that workshop tried to sell imitation white colour oil filter with Proton logo to me while trying to change the engine oil. I told the tauke that all this time I only see the blue colour oil filters at Proton Service Centre. Then the tauke claimed that Proton has 2 colours for genuine oil filters, which are blue and white. I told the tauke that I would like to have some time to think & will come again next time (but I didn't come). Few days later I went to Proton Service Centre to double-check whether the 'so called' genuine white colour Proton oil filters really exist or not. The workers at Proton Service Centre replied "mana ada?" while laughing at me.

From that point onwards, I bought genuine oil filters at Proton Parts Centre (or Proton Service Centre) & engine oil at petrol stations for minor service, then ask the worker at a tyre shop nearby my house to replace for me. If the tauke at ordinary workshop can try to cheat on me by selling imitation oil filter, I'm afraid that the engine oil sold at their place might also be imitation. So far I bought engine oil at Shell and BHP petrol station (all are semi-synthetic, 10W-40). In the future, I would also like to try Petron & Caltex engine oil (semi-synthetic, 10W-40).

Since the tyre workshop that i go is situated in city outskirt (Kampung Melayu Subang), the tauke only charges me RM10 for engine oil & oil filter replacement. I will consider to replace myself if the price goes higher, but I need to consider where to disposed the old oil properly (without harming the environment).

There was also 1 time I brought my own genuine oil filter (that I bought from Proton Service Centre), but decided to use the engine oil sold at the ordinary workshop. That workshop sold Liqui Moly engine oil. After replacing the engine oil, I notice that my engine pick-up became slower than usual, plus my engine sounded noisier than usual. I suspect that the Liqui Moly sold at the workshop is a counterfeit product. After that point onwards, I never go to that workshop anymore. My friend told me to try Liqui Moly again from another source to verify about this, but so far I have no idea where to purchase Liqui Moly from trustworthy sources.

Since there are too many items need to be replaced for the major service, I still send my car to be serviced at Proton Service Centre. After the imitation parts incidents (oil filter & engine oil), I don't want to take the risk of purchasing imitation parts for major service.

Beside the engine oil that are sold at petrol stations, I would also like to try the other brands (semi-synthetic, 10W-40) that are sold at trustworthy sellers, such as Tesco & Eneos. Some of the brands that are sold at Tesco & Eneos are:
1) Mobil
2) Castrol
3) Repsol
4) Elf
5) Total
6) Tesco brand itself
7) Pennzoil
8) Eneos brand itself
9) Bardahl
10) Eni
11) Prince
12) Q8
13) Aurotech

This post has been edited by foxfaisal: Feb 10 2016, 02:53 AM

I dunno but maybe depend on ur luck too...
I bought my oil filter n engine oil frm spare part shop since my 1st car in 1998 till today...
Total cars that have been used are 6 (include 2 for my wife)
So far no issue after 18 yrs
When I bought the oil filter for rm10, I knew aldy it's not ori but still can do the job well...

saw it myself

at motorcycle workshops along jalan sentul ~ one of kl great hotspot of lots of bikes workshops together

the 'recycled' man comes with modified lorry with a tank alike thing to store used engine oil, use a hose sth to suck the oil into the tank, walau...

also got mitsubishi oil sold in Aeon, made by eneos if not mistaken.

Aha. You just reminded me that Toyota, Honda & Nissan also have their own engine oil brands. I would like to try that also if they have the Semi-synthetic 10W-40 :-)

This post has been edited by foxfaisal: Feb 10 2016, 02:47 AM

Honda is Idemitsu and you can get Liqui Moly from Kakimotor. I used it for years, the 10W-40 one. Very smooth and good.