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Old fashioned, only real call for 20w-50 oils these days are old classic and vintage engines. Cheers Guy.

Thank god we all have a choice at the end of the day and that's what it boils down to really. Your money, your car. Good oils are insurance and save money in the long term (cat life is one good example) but it's your choice. No marketing hype, just a choice and for modded/tracked car a...

Why? 20w-50 is a dyno grade these days. Cheers Guy.

Send Tuesday, delivered Wednesday Cheers

As it says in the article, the real thing is far more expensive to make. Price is the real difference. There are some good ones mentioned above, not exhaustive but some to be going on with. If your car is standard and used on the road, the real thing is better but not as necessary as...

The quality of the oil will help with the perfmance, new clean oil will help look after the engine, so yes. Cheers Guy.

5w-40 in the clio. Cheers Guy.

It's a decent oil but a bit of a fake The Mobil1 is better Cheers Simon

Its ok, average. It is a hydrocracked mineral oil not a true synthetic so will be easily out performed by a true synthetic. Cheers Guy.

Niether... it is a hydrocracked mineral oil, in short the better half of a semi synthetic but in the true sense of the word it is not synthetic at all. Cheers Guy.

Sure, Silkolene Pro S 5w-40 = ester/pao Motul 300v 5w-40 = ester/pao Redline 5w-40 = ester/pao Mobil 1 0w-40 = pao Castrol Edge Sport 0w-40 = pao Amsoil Synthetic = pao Fuchs Supersyn 5w-40 = pao Just to name a few. Cheers Guy.

Yes it can. True, however the protection properties and the film strength of the oil have been lost at this stage. Cheers Guy.

Leon, Have a look here http://www.opieoils.co.uk and the look at the likes of Silkolene, Motul and Fuchs, these are all elf quality and above. The best are the ester based oils of Silkolene and Motul. Cheers Guy.

Costs of synthetics vary considerably. The most expensive are the “Ester” types originally only used in jet engines. These cost 6 to 10 times more than high quality mineral oils. The cheapest synthetics are not really synthetic at all, they are dug out of the ground and not manmade. These...

Profound but true ;) G'day Simon

A short lesson on Multigrades: If you see an expression such as 10W-40, the oil is a multigrade. This simply means that the oil falls into 2 viscosity grades, in this case 10W & 40. This is made possible by the inclusion of a polymer, a component which slows down the rate of thinning as...

It's not the only oil that saves gearboxes. Cheers Simon

****OFFER EXTENDED**** Just to let you all know this offer has been extended till 6pm on Tuesday the 29th of May. So, dont delay get your order in today. Regards Guy & Simon.

Take a look in the Members Section of our website and you will see that it is on top of the already discounted Members prices Cheers Simon

Opie Oils Ten Percent Off Week. Thats correct, from the 18th of May to the 25th of May EVERY PRODUCT on our site in the members section, has 10% OFF!! **** This offer is only avilable by ordering online! **** Grab yourself a bargain today while this offer lasts...

If you could stick it in there for me that would be great. Cheers Guy.

This post may seem like going back to basics but we are constantly surprised by the amount of people who do not know or understand what is written on a bottle of oil and therefore have no idea of what they are looking for, buying or using. This post should help as a basic guide, for more...

The Opie Oils "collect your oil at shows" order system is now up and running in the "Members Section" of our website http://www.opieoils.co.uk To order your oil for collection at a show, saving carriage costs you need to follow this procedure: 1. Go to our site and log into the "Members...

The 10w-50 from elf will be fine, an average quality oil. If at a good price buy it but the best quality options are the ester based oils of Silkolene and Motul. Like all things, you get what you pay for... if your lucky. Cheers Guy.

We are asked all the time about the use of magic addatives / miracle cures. This one is certainly no exception in its claims. Having read about it, I asked Silkolene was this a miracle addative and were the claims possible or more importantly technically possible? If you're...

Good choice of oil sir. Cheers Guy.

Silkolene Pro S 5w-40 or the Motul 300v 5w-40. Cheers Guy.

The term synthetic is one big grey area when it comes to oil as many labled as such are in fact hydrocracked mineral oils.... hense the guy with the comma oil and impreza's, its not a true synthetic. You will always pay a premium for synthetic oil for a few reasons, they are better, they cost...

The Castrol 0w-30 is really designed as a long life oil for BMW and VAG type engines, it shte way things are going and in the next few years you will probably see some french cars running around on this type of grade. As it stands at the moment a 5w-40 or 0w-40 would be a better choice as it...

Yep, 5w-40 or 0w-40 full synthetic is the best choice. The best of these are the ester based synthetics of Motul and Silkolene, followed by the pao synthetics like Amsoil, Mobil, Castrol Edge and Fuchs. Cheers Guy.