Gloo Member 403 Member For: 16y 7m 21d Gender: Male Location: Northern South Australia Posted 25/01/10 05:57 AM Share Posted 25/01/10 05:57 AM Personally I dont think its so much the oil, any major oil company has spent millions on developments in there products and none of them will kill your engine as such as long as you stick to 15w-40 oil that ford recomend. I find most poeple who acctualy care about there engine use full synthetic. The real issue is mantinance, and regularity. You want a engine to run according to ford, do it every 15k. Want your engine to run good and last, do it every 7.5k. Want to give you engine the best possible life with minimal wear, do it every 5k. If your car is modified then best listen to your tuner.This is how I maintian my car.Factory servies with ford to comply with the log book with diff and trans oils done every time.Engine every 5k with filter.I recomend nulon oil. Why? Cos its full synthetic, its 15w-40, and its pretty good prices. And it comes in larger bottles than most other oils so its cheeper again in bulk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadyxr Donating Members 132 Member For: 21y 2m 18d Location: Sydney Posted 25/01/10 05:59 AM Share Posted 25/01/10 05:59 AM I use Penrite HPR10 from first change. No problems. 03 XR6T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 20y 8m 2d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 25/01/10 06:14 AM Share Posted 25/01/10 06:14 AM Topics mergedCos its full synthetic, its 15w-40...That’s actually a semi-synthetic, but does the job for me. The 10W-40 is a full-synthetic (gold bottle) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kellar Member 51 Member For: 14y 11m 11d Posted 27/01/10 10:26 AM Share Posted 27/01/10 10:26 AM Too much good info to be lost in the general clutter, so I will pin this to keep it on the top of the pile.Hmmmmmmm yes the clutter, I would appreciate your recomendation, please advise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloo Member 403 Member For: 16y 7m 21d Gender: Male Location: Northern South Australia Posted 27/01/10 10:37 AM Share Posted 27/01/10 10:37 AM Topics mergedThat’s actually a semi-synthetic, but does the job for me. The 10W-40 is a full-synthetic (gold bottle)I actually use the 10w 40... :( I didnt even realise, used it for over a year now and always thought I was 15w 40, I even probably read it 20 times and never ticked over in the noggen. Shows how much attention I payed in the bottle. Oh well, 10w-40 works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlaya Member 26 Member For: 15y 8m 21d Posted 29/01/10 11:17 PM Share Posted 29/01/10 11:17 PM Was confused about oil grades up until now! Thanks everyone, especially Lawsy! It all makes a lot of sense now.My mechanic used the Mobil1 5W-50 for the last service, and I noticed the petrol consumption go up some, and the car running a bit sluggish. Which was no surprise at all (and after reading all the 10 pages of this topic ) as the guy who I bought the car from (2003 BA T, with about 300rKw) used a 0W-30 for the last service. Hope not much damage was done with it. The car runs fine, so I'll cross my fingers there and hope he didn't use something silly like that the whole time.The car is being serviced as I am typing this, with the Mobil 1 (above mentioned), so I'll stick with that for about 5K, and then switch to either a 10W-40 or a 10W-50 of some kind.Thanks again guys, it was a long read, but well worth it!cheers,Zlaya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figjam87 Member 7 Member For: 15y 6m 26d Gender: Male Posted 14/03/10 04:38 AM Share Posted 14/03/10 04:38 AM Yep 15W40 is what ford recommend to use...although if u go into a Ford spair parts dealer...they will just give u the LPG gas oil (15W40)....which is what they fun from factory.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longy89 Donating Members 38 Member For: 14y 8m 22d Posted 08/06/10 08:08 AM Share Posted 08/06/10 08:08 AM I go with the 15W40 syn Penrite and it runs nice. My uncle swears by the stuff so I thought I'd give it a go and it works for me. Previous owner put Elf in it, which I think is an alright brand too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xr50 Donating Members 196 Member For: 14y 6m 7d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 19/07/10 04:29 AM Share Posted 19/07/10 04:29 AM Just phoned my local ford dealers1 uses Castrol Professional Magnatec 10w-301 uses Shell Helix Ultra 5w-30Thought these grades may be out of spec with ford, wots recommended for FG turbos.I was going to use Lawsy's suggestion of Nulon 10w=40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawlass Silver Donating Members 1,161 Member For: 17y 1m 18d Gender: Male Location: left right out Posted 19/07/10 08:15 AM Share Posted 19/07/10 08:15 AM No body has said their donk's blown because of 'x' brand oil. I think they are all going to be good oils if the owners/fanatics of our cars recommend them. Only use magnatec myself for ten years now, NEVER been disapointed. How you warm up/cool down helps if yur gonna give er shy*e.Just my 2 cents worth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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