Halfords Own Fully Synth Oil

[markclio2007]

Just bought some 5w40 fully synth halfords own 5l for £20

Anyone else used this?

 

[bmh.01]

I've been using it recently. Made by Comma, not bad stuff really had no problems with it anyway.

 

[markclio2007]

Oh rite well cant be that bad as its fully synth anyway

 

[bmh.01]

Think its a case of it not actually being fully synth like for example the silkolene pro stuff is but it does the job.

 

[markclio2007]

Well fully synth is fully synth and it has all the ratings from like bmw, porsche etc

 

[bmh.01]

Its not fully synth, search for one of oilman's posts. They'll explain.

 

[markclio2007]

Oh rite well it says on the container it is!!

Rated by porsche thats good enough for me!!

Just filled up oil with 5l and started car etc now showing 3/4 on dipstick is this ok?

 

[Gaz_]

Yeah its ok. I've used it on may cars in the past and its fine! Good stuff

 

[markclio2007]

What yeh its ok to use halfords stuff or oil level?

 

[Brooky182]

thats what i put in my 182 for 40k miles and never missed a beat. its good stuff really. better than the magnatex the dealor put in it.

 

[donsrno1]

Oh rite well it says on the container it is!!

Rated by porsche thats good enough for me!!

Just filled up oil with 5l and started car etc now showing 3/4 on dipstick is this ok?

I'm guessing you mean 3/4 of the way between the max and min marks? If so then yeah thats ok.

 

[LegoHead]

I've used it as I have a few spare bottles.

 

[markclio2007]

Yeh seems ok car idles and sounds smoother now!!
And yes its 3/4 between markers and i went for a drive and now i cant get a reading as its all up and down dipstick lol

 

[markclio2007]

I did notice some oil below oil filter maybe thats there from when i took off filter as it was so hard to get off!!

Dont think ive got a leak

 

[nockmeister]

Standard procedure for checking warm oil is to pull the dip stick out, wipe off, then replace. Pull out again and check reading should be true...

 

[nockmeister]

Did you wipe the face of the block and maybe smear a small amount of grease around the oil filter seal??

 

[AlexS]

Make sure the cars parked on level ground too.

 

[lemonnobby]

Mark that will be just residue from the filter i expect. Yea yours is one of the 5.2 litre ones then

 

[markclio2007]

Yeh its black so hopefully there was a large puddle now i wiped off and went for a drive and there was 1 little drip