172 gearbox oil change

[gez 172]

changed my gearbox oil yesterday 75/90 and the gearbox feels a little notchy/stiff to normal.
Had a search on here and people say, stay away from 75/90. and go for GL5 grade 75/80?

can i get this from any parts store? (halfords, Motor factor ect)

i would order the oil off opie or simular, but i dont want to wait. i want to change it agian today.

any recommendations of what oil i should get?



thank you in advance

 

[.Stevo.C.]

Sorry for hijacking your thread mate but how many litres do you need for a gearbox oil change?

 

[gez 172]

just over 3 litres iirc

 

[.Stevo.C.]

Thanks man.

 

[Hugo-]

I'd stick with 75/80. Although when I changed mine I couldn't get any in Halfords.

 

[gez 172]

so its the main dealers i'd mainly get it from then?

 

[Fred@BTM]

i use 75W90 all the time in the clios, no problems

 

[hipwell]

Castrol do some 75 80 gl5 oil, cost me about 21 quid from bullseye for 3 litres

 

[gez 172]

cheers for that mate. I'll have a look now

 

[Stonebaked]

How often is it a good idea to change the gearbox oil ? Im thinking about doing mine next week for the first time.

 

[Yanoo]

Are U sure GL5 is recommended for JC gearboxes? Renault suggests API GL4+ 75w-80 gearbox oil (ELf Tranself TRX or TRJ or NFJ).
GL5 contains large amount of very agressive compounds (active chlorine, phosporour etc.), this may cause chemical corrosion.

 

[daddycool]

if you've not changed it in a few years it's probably worth giving it some love.
as for which oil, i was sure i was going to use 75/80 until both fred and agency transmissions (who rebuilt my box) said 75/90, so i've been using that for the last couple months. no problems.
i wouldn't take renault as gospel. i'd pay more attention to what fred says

 

[turbo tom]

i put castrol 75/80 (that we use in land rovers, £30 a litre though!) in mine as was notchy so thought i would change the oil, what a difference! slick gear changes and no crunchy gears, whatever was in it before was really thick! think it was gear oil not transmission oil lol

 

[CaptainFail]

I noticed a difference changing my gearbox oil, no idea if it had been done in the past but it feels much better for it. I used Fuchs Titan Sintofluid 75W-80 (3 litres) :approve:

 

[Tony Hunter]

75-90 gl5 halfords do it

 

[nzclioman]

so out of these Tony would you get the gl5 still? http://www.liqui-moly.de/liquimoly/...ndocument&land=GB&voilalang=e&voiladb=web.nsf

i can get this easily in my country but not halfords

mine is a 2002 172

cheers

 

[Tony Hunter]

I would, yes.

 

[nzclioman]

Thanks Tony appreciate the help