giant already selling long time ago, sometimes cheaper than tesco

Anyone here heard of Elf Engine Oil ? is Elf Synthetic Pro 5-40W suitable for Toyota Vios ? 2nd generation
Currently using Eneos synthetic 10-30W

And also anyone here heard of ELF max booster ? Does that help car's performance ? Fuel consumption ?

Still got 3 bottle of tesco cooking oil. lemme finish them then will try aeon's

I'm not a believer of additives. Sort of. If you look after the GB well enough, you shouldn't ever need additives. Motul GB oil will cost you a lotta money, adding a RM90 bottle of additive is supposed to help how exactly?

Incidentally, if you're changing ATF soon, make sure you change the ATF filter. ATF very rarely will change colour since it's a closed system. If it does change colour you have a leak somewhere or is overcooking your GB too often and need a cooler.


using a 40 weight for a car that demands 30 weight will affect your FC to some extent. Stick to 30 weight la. Elf is a reputable brand, just stick with the right viscosity.

Never heard of booster sorry. Cannot comment nor would I use. Is the Elf oil brand that bad that it needs an additive to work optimally? That's kinda sad.

Elf is sister company of Total. They are reputable brands and make good oil, so should be no worries using those brands.
Don't know about the Max Booster though. I'd think don't waste money on such additional additives, coz if you're already using good engine oil then no need to add extra chemicals there coz good engine oil already have all those necessary additives etc2. Adding extra chemicals might not match well and be detrimental instead.

guys, anyone here tired Kixx ATF IV oil before? any good?

wow...
but the bottle does not mentioned blended by D.K. Lubricants, maybe got tiny chance the TopValu from D.K. is actually referring to another brand? haha.

Yeah my ATF tends to get cooked all the time that I needed lubegard to have a decent service interval.
To give an idea, those cheap rm20 proton ATF only lasted me around /Less than 5k km on my auto Iswara and upon draining it smells burnt and its dark /brownish color

Do feedback ya

No idea bro lol, can try ask /find out

Ya meh?? I went a few times for the past 1 month and i don't see got giant home brand engine oil...

Oh not their home brand la, other oils

email jor no reply, never expect they would reply...
been emailing to those small-mid local api certified company asking where to purchase etc, end up never heard from them..

I have decided, and bought the motul ATF 1A from zhapalang last weekend,
Put it to my fren's Myvi, as a tester, notice less jumping when changing gear which is a good start I guess, knowing that there is still old ATF inside the torque converter.

Pricing wise, RM55 each, not including GST, if really will last longer than usual with same performance, quite reasonable I guess.

Everything also raise price

Hmm, noted on the filter part and thanks
As for additives, after getting the motul, will not add on any additives, 1st is because of budget, 2nd just like u said, maybe its overkill

Yeah, some more the zhapalang tauke said the price will rise more when selling the new stock because of GST.
The one RM55 is still older stock.

awesome

I don't really see the need to add in additives to GB if one regularly changes the oil every 20k km... I've done this to all my ride, no problem at all. Even add on transmission cooler

you're only addressing temperature, this is addressing fluid longevity and viscosity/friction modification.
additives have their place, in fact they are pre-added to almost all products you buy on the market.

they are just not commonly encouraged/prohibited by most oil manufacturers because they simply cannot stand behind/vouch other brands/products compatibility.

then there's the issue of cost.
For example: using amsoil signature series is way cheaper than say, motul 300v, however if i add in nanolube ws2 and liqui moly ceratec, it easily goes well over rm500 and thats easily way more expensive than motul 300v which already have very good additive package and a strong ester based base oil.

see, manufacturer specs the ATF to be serviced much longer than 20k km (even the old 1990's 3 speed autos are specced 40k km afaik), however with how conventional ATF is along with our weather/traffic jam, even 20k km may not be sufficient.
for example, my 1999 iswara 3 speed auto when using purely rm20ish/liter proton ATF(spIII), it only last until 5k ish km where i get some car "transmission morning sickness" where by it has a huge delay in shifting until the car warms up.
so upon draining, the fluid is very watery (just visual alone it looks like water as opposed to being oil and it flows rather fast as well) and is brown/black in color as opposed to deep red and smells absolutely horrible.

5k km.
lubegard alone on the same ATF can extend this to easily over 20k km and even upon draining the fluid doesn't look watery and doesn't smell as bed, and still retains the red'ish color.