Has anyone bought Engine Oil from Tesco?

I've bought the Helix Ultra due to the cheap promo price from Tesco the other day and thinking if it's from Tesco it should be original and with a good price also.

However, at the mechanic, after unscrewing the top cover, I realized the silver seal has been broken

It looks like someone has tampered with it

Now after 500kms driving in that oil in the morning the rev goes up to 1.7k and engine feels like it's misfiring.

Will probably change out this oil very soon.

You bought oil with broken seal.

The oil sold by Tesco are genuine oil packed in EU. They are good.

So how to check whether seal inside broken or not? Have to unscrew the top cover?

AFAIK, tesco oil all are unsealed. basically i doesnt trust oil from tesco especially its being used in my own car. U cant be willing to spend 100k for ur car but only can afford a cheap oil right? Anyway just my opinion, i know alot forumer here is using it without a problem too

Misfiring has nothing got to do with engine oil.

yup, yesterday i went to teso too.. its engine oil quite cheap compare petrol pump price.. if it already been tempered, u should bring this issue to tesco.. but not sure how to proof to them that its not u tempered it..

the ones offered fully sintetic only right?

this has been asked many years ago.....tesco oil doesnt come with seal n its not from here (means its not recycled oil)....dont over think it...misfiring could be your plugs, dirty throttle body or sensor....

u think they are willing to lose $$ in court claims over their oil? I believe their management are more efficient than that

i only use mobil 1 from tesco, havent try other brand at tesco...

mine the bottle is plastic seal.. not those aluminium.

but i dont think is fake la......

getting at rm 129.. a lot worth lo

Yes, I've been using Mobil 1 from Tesco for few year s now. No issues so far, and the seal is always there.

I've also used Mobil 1/Shell/Castrol from Tesco and never have any issues whatsoever. I don't think big name stores like them will dare selling fake oil and they would have special distribution channel on their own. So I believe it's still a very good deal.

depend on old or new packaging, if the new one from shell with natural gas as base oil stock. its comes with seal

You should not use the oil lah, bring to tesco and dispute

New packaging with natural gas technology!


How to bring to them when the mechanic has already drained off all the old oil and the only option is use that oil and not use the mechanic's oil

it looks to me that yes it has been tampered with.

However, I noticed something fishy... when I goto shell website they did show that the new bottle designs have a code which can be smsed to verify the authenticity of the bottle, but this bottle from Tesco no such code.

Misfiring might not be caused by the oil, just hoping that the oil is real.

I've tried using fake oil in my old car before and the engine oil just disappears, lost of power and bad mileage - 350kms per full tank when averaging out 450kms before and after changing out fake oil

The prob with oil frm tesco is the manufacturing date.
Still sell year 2012 oil although now is 2015

Yes when they offer promotion, those are mostly for older oil. Still ok to buy but better use it soon and not to keep stock for longer still.

Want to buy cheap engine oil, buy in bulk. Now 1 box is 4 bottles against last time of 6.

most of their oil on shelf display: mobil ,shell,total..etc etc stock come from europe. just old batch shja, thats why cheap.most i see manufacture date is 2013
maybe they made deal with those oil company help to clear old stock with cheaper price.
packaging in overseas not same with us,maybe they don't have those top seal for some particular brand oil?


how to dispute......u gonna need some prove"not with my mechanic says" .at least with a lab test result.

Actually they have more recent production one but would not offer at promotion yet, so still the same price like normal (>rm200 for FS oil).

usually the new batch they rarely do promotion unless the oil is near to 3 years expiration marks.

i buy so many times...rm129 for 5w40 total fully syn and rm65-75 for semi total syn..all also near to expiration.
recently i bought few...all 2013 batch.don't know the offer still have bo...12 days something left when i last open their webpage.