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.

In conclusion if you are afraid to buy Shell brands imported from Tesco, then don't buy.

For me, I buy Heavy Duty Diesel Engine Oil ,with API SL ratings, and use them on my car.
Now currently using Petronas Urania Supremo CI-4. RM 75 for 5 litres.

http://www.mymesra.com.my/Heavy_Duty_Oil-@...premo_CI-4.aspx

While Shell Helix Ultra has ACEA A3/B3 & A4/B4, this one has ACEA E7/E5/E3/A3/B3/B4 standards

Source: http://www.acea.be/uploads/publications/20...l_Sequences.pdf

This post has been edited by SleeplessEyes: Mar 27 2015, 12:25 PM

yeah. I've been using engine oil bought from Tesco/Carrefour for many years now.

I am more worry buying engine oil from spare part shops.

i buy mobil 1 0w40 from tesco last week, also promotion price at rm129. but the manufacturing date is april 2014. so still new.

bought total semi syn few times from tesco, superb to my 13+y car (then feel shell semi syn sucks in comparison )

This post has been edited by Alan: Mar 27 2015, 02:25 PM

saw some funny comments from noob...

anyway.. if the bottle is sealed, it can be kept up to 4 years.

FYI, Tesco imported the bottles from EU, hence no seal, this is because they don't

have fake oil issues like here in poor country.

And i can tell you, even with seal, the oil selling here locally also might no be genuine.

bought 2 bottles of shell fully syn last month at tesco kb..rm135.90 per 4L bottle..manufacturing date may 2014..so i think it is not old stock..worth the price..API SN some more

Have you opened it yet?

Is the seal tampered with?

Is there a code in front to scan/verify for authenticity?

Thanks.

Never had issues with buying from tesco

i have been using fully synthetic from tesco for years ... i've used all brands and grades from there, shell, castrol , and now Total . no problem at all and i have 2 cars all running on oils bought from tesco.

problems will come when your mechanic does not do the servicing right or your car sensors got problem.

Report to Shell to take Legal Action against Tesco

this pack for EU market la bro..for sure no code to scan & aluminum foil seal like been distributed by Shell Malaysia..

the cap got plastic seal like mineral water only..

code+aluminum seal will cost u extra Rm100

This post has been edited by Kirie: Mar 30 2015, 03:53 PM

You're right. The engine oil sell at tesco such as shell, castrol, total & mobil was the imported engine oil and doesn't have aluminium foil seal.

mobil1 FS new stock 2014

sorry to bump up this thread, bought shell helix ultra 5w-40, cap sealed but no aluminium seal in the cap. Changed at the workshop nearby and it is the same quality i guess, RM139 per bottle only.

mag date - Jun 2015

This post has been edited by ddr3: Apr 20 2016, 10:52 PM

Should be fine, the bottle is still actually sealed by the cap even though not with aluminium sticker seal.

yes, the cap is sealed

I used to buy engine oil from Tesco for years. Tesco is worth to trust than spare part shop. I am glad that Tesco and AEON Big importing engine oils and sell at reasonable price despite of main distributor in Malaysia and Singapore selling at crazy price.

Sometime Giant Singapore offer at Shell 5w40 @ SGD32.90.

Please survey overseas market e.g. amazon, then you will realize that engine oil is very cheap in western countries and Tesco has good margin when us selling @ RM129/4L

For example, Mobil 1 Extended Performance 5W-30 Motor Oil - 5 Quart only USD11 after rebate at USA now

We could google anything to learn. It is not wise to believe that paying more for better quality.

Be a smart consumer

Good luck

This exactly!

TQ for the explanation bro

Use this for almost 3 years. Car engine running perfectly fine.

save alot too

I prefer to use oils meant for the niche market ie, not so popular oils. Right now Im using Chemlube esther based fully synthetic on my cars but with different grades though. At rm55 per litre, its a good buy to me and you can be guaranteed there wont be fakes because its not popular.

This post has been edited by TOMEI-R: Apr 21 2016, 10:43 PM

My experience with tesco on engine oil has been 4 years

I've bought:
Shell Semi Syn 10w - 40 @ RM 89
Shell Full Syn 5w - 40 @ RM 119

But in year 2016, is no longer that cheap, easily RM 139 now
https://www.facebook.com/TescoMY/photos/pb....?type=3&theater

What to do, MYR value has dropped a lot, then got GST, all costs have increased.

Why 0/5w-30 not popular with Tesco? Have been waiting more than a year, still don't see them at Tesco!

If you want 5w30 you can buy Formula Shell (Shell USA) 5w30 full synth in AEON Jusco for rm129/4 quarts.

True and sadly, Lucky that I bought 4 bottles of 5 L on semi, still can tahan until 5 services, but next year gone

Tq, Which Aeon ctr is this.

Last time I saw was in Mid Valley and Wangsa Maju.

old car need 10w-40?

Tq

I had been using that capalang Tesco brand 20W50 mineral engine oil in my Volvo for all of the 6 years that I owned the car.

Cheap, no probs.

I trust engine oils sold in Tesco more than those at the spare parts shop.

Heck, I trust Tesco brand better than those Cap Ayam dunno what brand at the parts shop.

Yes, for 5 years now I also have been using oils bought at Tesco/AEON (even though still not their Tesco/AEON brands). I also rather buy engine oil at Tesco/AEON rather than any random parts shops, coz actually those parts shops might sell fake oils (knowingly or not).

yesterday walked around at Tesco and still Shell Helix Ultra Full Sync 5w-40 still RM139, till 27/04/2016

penzoil semi 5w-40 RM99.90

Previously was using Shell Helix Ultra @139.

One week ago, saw all the while eyeing mobile 1 new life 0-40w 4ltr @ 169, bought one bottle. Yesterday went to buy one more bottle. As I bought when first having promotion, that time still have plenty. When I was there yesterday, only less than 10 bottles left!

To bros who prefer mobile 1, please act fast!

HI all....see here

now all can survey engine oil at http://www.lazada.com.my/automotive/?shop-tesco&page=1

see what discount for each engine oil brand and spec to choose and buy for your car.

or walk to your nearest store to purchase.

Branded oils in Lazada from Tesco are Euro spec'ed.
Besides the very basic and minimal specifications of API SL/SM/Sn, most or all branded oils sold in Tesco are from Europe with a stronger Euro specifications in ACEA A3/B4 or C3.
One pays lower price in Tesco for better spec'ed oils as compared against local service station's.
It's really value for money.

Guys, weird enough. These few days I visited 2 different Tesco outlets and they do not carry much engine oil nowadays. Even there are some engine oils on the shelves but none with popular brands or series! I wonder what happened to the stocks? All sold due to 11.11 sale or our currency issues??

Are engine oil from Lazada online shopping reliable?

Yeah.. Tesco and Giant having very few promotions these days.
Giant now promoting "Branded" engine oil, I guess is their own label oils.

The ones from Lazada are like spare part shops (I believe most of them are spare parts retailers too). Need to look for reliable shops. Safer bet would be Tesco thru Lazada.

Yeah I noticed this too, in the last month or so, Tesco has not sell much other oil brands except their own and Castrol! Wonder what's going on...
If they really stop selling, then there goes one of my main engine oil seller for saving now. Giant and Aeon are not selling as many brands and not having as often promotions as Tesco.

As for buying via Lazada, I've bought once before from Vanli, seems legit.

Bro, thank you for the info. Today I visited another 1 more established Tesco Extra and Giant, both does not have good branded engine oil with discount. Giant is selling Shell Helix Ultra at 229 (at normal price). I wonder what is the reason that Tesco is not carrying much branded engine oil with promotional price which they normally do. Anybody got insider's news?

Side topic, I think in the rate our country developing, sooner or later we won't get a lot of items in our hypermarket like what we experienced for our engine oils.

This post has been edited by gold member: Dec 7 2017, 10:27 PM

i heard rumours about tesco fully synthetic oils and why they are cheap. They are considered 2nd or 3rd grade fully synthetic. dunno if this is true.. maybe some experts can elaborate?

Something must be going on, maybe Shell Malaysia & others are pressuring Tesco not to undercut them anymore! Cannot be just suddenly Tesco stops selling like that.

That's rubbish, not true at all! Tesco imported directly themselves from Europe, bypassing those Malaysian distributors. Probably then they bad mouth Tesco, spreading that nonsense rumors. Many of those brands like are not 1st rate synthetic to begin with no matter who sells them, they are mostly Group 3 based. You want 1st rate synthetic, then buy Amsoil, or the ester based Motul or any of those really top brands who made their oils from group 4 or above synthetics.

This post has been edited by 6UE5T: Dec 8 2017, 11:02 AM

I used it for 13k km OCI, still turn out ok on the ncp42 vios.

Used Mobil1 fully sync from Tesco before 0W40, no issues at all.

That time was RM129, i bought 2 bottles.

Or maybe something wrong with Tesco or distributors who supply to Tesco. Or maybe Tesco gets some complaints from these big companies.
I have searched some Shell Helix Oil in Lazada, some got good feedback but the authenticity of these oils are still in doubt. Some I read can verify through sms to a no. But bear in mind, if I would sell counterfeit oil, I would set up the sms system which is not that expensive to invest in- it is just a phone no. with reply.

This may be the end of the good old days. The days to have affordable engine oil no longer exists.
Sigh, I didn't stock a few bottles merely due to do not want to the tie up money with these stocks and headache to keep these oils at home.

This post has been edited by gold member: Dec 8 2017, 10:17 PM

Last 2 week Giant, Kampar suddenly got sell Shell Helix Ultra with only RM99. Brought 4 straight away. AEON time to time is selling mitsubishi fully syn oil also at 99/ bottle.

I suspect Tesco got complaints from those Malaysia brand distributors. I noticed Tesco also has downsized their rack space/allocation for this section, which looks like they are not planning to sell as much anymore too!

Bros, thank you for info once again.

Day 1- Visited 1 Tesco and Tesco extra, no stock for most major brands. IIRC, only house brand at around RM169 and some type which I am not familiar with.
Day 2- Visited 1 Tesco extra and 1 Giant. Tesco not selling any major brands that I know of and Giant selling Helix Ultra @229.
Yesterday and today, visited AEON Big. Shell Helix Ultra 4L @ RM151.15. Bought 4 bottles straight as stocks. 1 bottle manufactured in 2015. 2 bottles Aug 2016 and 1 bottle Jan 2017. Another few bottles Jan 2017 shown signs of spills and less volume by looking at the indicator by the side.

Comparable to the lowest price, from 120 to 139, now the lowest I can get is 151, considered acceptable and IMHO, is from reliable source.

Also, have checked Lazada. Do not know the authenticity of the oils but read that from same seller e*as the stock varies. Some said have verification code while some said no. Some said genuine products some in doubt. Still awaiting the situation to settle down hence stock some Helix Ultra. Price at 140+

I believe since it is low stock in Tesco, currently I am experiencing engine oil crisis. Do not think have chance to buy through Lazada Tesco.

Check with Shell Petrol Station, selling at around RM260+ (without any promotion). Ah Beng spare part shop at around RM220+ which I doubt about authenticity.

Yeah, regarding the manufacturing location, I think I read that Lazada (not Tesco one), Shell (some) are from Hong Kong.
While Tesco/AEON Big from EU. Helix Ultra from Tesco and AEON Big all I purchased do not have aluminium foil seals.
Even some oils sell in Shell Petrol Station showing inconsistency in the stocks, some have sms verification and some do not have.
Very confusing combination. This shows that there are so many different sources of engine oils in the market.
Sorry to say, I like to buy "genuine" / OEM spare part from Ah Beng spare parts shop but not for the engine oils.
I do buy other car oils/ fluid from Ah Beng spare part shops though e.g.: ATF, brake oil etc.

This post has been edited by gold member: Dec 10 2017, 06:25 PM

Same as me.. bought from lazada more cheaper

If you're so into shell, why not consider pennzoil? Same plant and GTL technology for the base oil. There are some that sells in garage zone, can look up for mayalab.

Tesco no more selling Mobil 1 or Shell fully synthetic engine oil?

Yea, quite sad lar ....
Anyway, for fully synthetic maybe you can consider Mobil Super 3000 5W40 SN A3B4 in Aeon Big Subang Jaya..

Yeah, no more Mobil, Total, Elf, Repsol, or Shell. They're only selling Castrol, Dyno Lube and Tesco oil now.

Tesco Paradigm..


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Decent price but not the cheapest. Giant usually sells tgis oil cheaper at below rm100.

Tesco selling Shell Helix Ultra. Imported fr Germany. Bottle cap does not have aluminium seal like the one distributed by Shell Malaysia. Hope it is good oil..

Same with Giant, also imported from Germany or any other European countries. It's good, I and tons of others have been using for so many years without issues.

Aluminium seal, as specially developed and found in Shell Malaysia products, is pure marketing and/or saleman gimmicks for differentiation (from EU Shell products) in package appearance whilst 'inside' is exactly similar, all for 'justifying' their exorbitant and cut throat selling price , victimising consumer pockets .
In layman terminology, this is all bullshit from a local greedy corporate player .

Seeing that its no longer imported by Tesco from the photo of the sticker my guess is that Shell Malaysia sent a threatening letter - like a Show Cause letter or lawyer letter asking them to stop importing . But seems Tesco takes from another supplier silently . My 2 sens guess.

I have been using the Shell Helix Ultra from Tesco / Giant for the past 6 years on both my cars covering over 250K km combined.

No issues and I trust that Tesco will not jeopardize their own liability for selling fake products.

By the way, Tesco is having the sale now again till end of Oct , @RM109.

Tesco and Giant recently start selling 5w30 Shell Ultra, silver bottle instead of grey, made in Germany.

Got meh? Didn't notice. But I know giant will always be cheaper than Tesco.

Did you catch what's the price?

that should be shell hx8 instead of ultra, no?

Yes Giant normally cheaper. Around rm100-110 if not mistaken.

Oh ya HX8, sorry my mistake. But it's also stated as full synth.

Yeap. Its fully syn. But note that its SL instead or SN spec

There is a Russia Virgin Oil Analysia VOA for Shell Helix HX8 5W30 SN here , quite impressive indeed .

This is good price! Will get one or 2 bottle.

thanks will check it out....
loyal supporter of tesco/giant SHU since few yrs ago

Today visited Giant Kelana Jaya and they only have Shell semi-synthetic oil. Went over to Tesco Paradigm Mall and they only have 5 bottles of 4L Shell Helix Ultra 5W-40 Fully Synthetic left, at RM109. API SN, ACEA A3/B4. Made in Germany. I bought 1 so there's 4 left!

I myself bought a bottle to test it out on an old car one more time. Previously had used this before but within 5k km i actually got my mech to drain them all out and replace with LM 10w-30 Semi Sync.

I did pour out the oil from the bottle to have a look indeed it's darker than a normal. I would assume in EU they really do recycle their engine oil due to environmental reason. Let's see if it's really good as claimed by the fellow forumers here who have been using it for donkey years.

Are you suggesting it's the EU based oil are partly recycled oil ?

They do have strict rules in recycling of used oil, but not back into engine oil. It's recycle into many by-products such as bitumen / oil stock for industrial use.

Anyway, as anything goes , use at your own risk and more importantly doing a timely change of oil is better than using high grade oil but neglect changing it.

well that's all i can say pouring it out, it's indeed pretty dark unlike the ones you will get from your official service center and/or from petrol kiosk. Yup, will give it a try if the engine do not feel right will flush it out asap.

Well considering so many peeps had vouch for Tesco Shell oils i just can't sit around and not testing it.. Especially when it's RM109 for fully sync.

By right Giant / Tesco should sell the HX8 at lower price than Ultra, because if you take a look at Shell stations, HX8 is around RM 180 vs Ultra which is RM 220 plus.

and the reason why Shell Malaysia introduce HX8 is to so-call make their Fully synthetic more affordable and keeping their Ultra , the top of the line model , although there is one more , rare, limited edition called Shell Helix Power.

https://www.shell.com.hk/zh_hk/motorists/oi...helixpower.html

The difference between the HX8 and the Ultra is not just fully synthetic. Like someone mentioned here in BITOG forum:

https://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbth...lix_HX8___5w-30

Kinda like HX8 is Nescafe and Ultra being...Starbucks kopi.
Heck if my car can drink Starbuck coffee at discounted price, why would I still buy Nescafe?

BTW, I have tried the Ultra to like 13K before I decided "enough is enough". My 2 sens, If its recycled oil or some minyak masak in disguised, it would had break down at 3K mileage.

I’m new to this topic after read from this forum discussion,I think I made a good decision and get a good deal in giant
Thank everyone for sharing

Very good buy! Use in good faith.

you sapu 10 bottles ??

i sapu 8 bottles LEL