Just a heads up on cheap oil

**accveccysriturbo** · 29th August 2010, 07:54

Just a heads up but was in cost co yesterday and they have a selection of Oil Castrol and mobil 1 for petrol and deisel in there which seem very cheap.

5ltrs of mobil 1 0w-40 for petrol was just under £29 Inc VAT.

Was the one in Birmingham.

Just thought I would share incase anyone changing oil soon

**signumboy** · 29th August 2010, 08:17

Originally Posted by accveccysriturbo

Just a heads up but was in cost co yesterday and they have a selection of Oil Castrol and mobil 1 for petrol and deisel in there which seem very cheap.

5ltrs of mobil 1 0w-40 for petrol was just under £29 Inc VAT.

Was the one in Birmingham.

Just thought I would share incase anyone changing oil soon

Asda have it also but its £32 but they had 50% off couple of months ago ...just waiting for it to come round again

**ed taylor** · 29th August 2010, 08:40

Nice one. Next time I am in Cosco I will get some. It is the oil I put in my motor.

**ROCKATANSKY** · 29th August 2010, 13:47

Dont you need 5w 30 and not 0-40? Is that not too thin?

**pinnacare** · 29th August 2010, 15:41

5w30 is appropriate. vx recommends. I think 0w might be too thin for the engine, especially in summer

**rushy** · 29th August 2010, 15:44

Only about £20 for 5L of Gen GM 5w30 at Autovaux.

**signumboy** · 29th August 2010, 16:04

Originally Posted by pinnacare

5w30 is appropriate. vx recommends. I think 0w might be too thin for the engine, especially in summer

always used Fully Synthetic & always will it was recomended to me by the dealers for Turbo engines and mine sounds sweet as a nut yet.... i dont mind paying the extra for good oil