Guys, after service, would the engine turn to black really fast, I mean real fast like less than 100KM after oil change.

SC told me that it's normal. Googled a bit on web, it's very common for diesel engine, but petrol turbo engine?

This was after the first oil change at 15,000KM, for the Volkswagon 1.4TSI engine.



On the right is the new oil from the bottle ( Castrol Edge Fully Synthetic), the dark oil on the left side of paper was from the engine, 1 day after the oil change.
Normal?

it's 2 litres bottle, so RM160 for 4 litres

Sorry and thanks.

Need to see what's good about ester based oil. I'm non technical person looking around in you guys' technical discussion.

lol esters:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester#List_of_ester_odorants
Can't really understand the fruit thingy.



This post has been edited by outpace: Jan 3 2016, 10:28 AM

The mechanic's advice is not untrue, to certain extent. I bought a used car, about 7 years old, the flywheel oil seal came off after 1st or 2nd use of fully synthetic oil.

I guess the oil mUST have washed the sludge that hold the harden oil seal, and it detached. ( that oil was Repco if recalled correctly, I used the Petronas/ mobil semi or less well known fully)

Of course, after I replaced the flywheel oil seal, all the time fully oil and semi oil. treat your car nice, it will reward you with peace of mind.

This post has been edited by outpace: Jan 20 2016, 09:33 PM

Good share
Not sure about the idea of putting magnet at the filter

If you bring your own oil, they will just charge service fee, no?

wa, bringing oil and filter to workshop no longer accepted?
The few shops you went really teruk, but of course they have their right. Try until you get someone to do loh.
Normally RM15

what's the difference of earning on self bring and on shelf?
Ya, not blaming, It's their call for the 20 minutes thing.

Even they say RM30 to RM50 we also have to pay if it's their equipment and labour.

Too many fake oil around, so I only get oil from a trusted source. A bit difficult if no one willing to do leh, try other if turned down by one, until we get one loh.

Some high end motorbike engine oil in the bike workshop cost a lot more per litre than my car engine oil.

Used the Lexus fully synthetic oil, brought from Sparepart shop for very cheap price, skeptical about it, can't really recall the performance at that time.

Your car's problem, fuel injector, software to your petrol tank.

Leave your innocent engine oil alone...

Sorry, my bad.

To me, the millage you having looks just too drastic to be the fault of 15W40 or 20W50.
unless I can rule out all other possibilities, I would not blame engine oil first.

VW prodict is fine, especially when you always floor the pedal, maybe because they fake their emission so they able to punches carry more pounds per displacement?
It was their SC that suck big time

you can say most of the EO that provide wider range of protection at cold and running heat are full syn, but strictly speaking cold start viscosity got nothing to do with full syn / semi syn / mineral.

Full syn is generally more "stable" or slower to degrade/breakdown from its original condition when it was new.

lower number perform better during cold start.

It's a funny world, so many of us wanna try cap ayam brands from mystery companies, but there is someone doesn't trust a winning F1 team partner's oil picked from the shelf.

It's always interesting to guess what are they doing with the steering wheel when they turn / press here and there for their party mode / high tea mode / in-lap mode / race finishing mode..


See these teams are comfortable to use Petronas with their 800HP ++ Mercedes F1 engine ?
http://www.f1i.com/news/296324-wolff-red-b...l-supplier.html

Using Petronas oil is time when you can be patriotic and be cool at the same time, different from the "proud" monent when I drove my old P1 on the road. Petronas F1 marketting at its best hahaha

You are right, that's why I ended wih "F1 marketing at its best".

I simply want to say I don't see any reason to trust petronas less than any other big brands.

Interested to know too.



Bought a 15W50 Petronas Syntium 1000 Fully Synthetic (old stock) for my 1.5 engine that use 0W30 all the while, any comment sifu? beside saying it's an overkill for the 9 years old car

This post has been edited by outpace: Jul 12 2018, 10:47 PM

good price compare to engine oil in motorbike workshop

was it because it is not hydro carbon based hence no residual of carbon dissolved in your Liqui Moly?

viscosity and fuel usage remain the same?

look forward for enlightenment