sedan man

does anyone know what oil im supposed to use for me puma its a 1.7 and was jus gunna bang in castrol gtx magnatec 15w-40as i have 5 literes at home but i jus read somewhere u need a special oil as it damages the nikasel (proberly spelt wrong sorry) liners???????????

help please i wana service in the mornig

thanks in advance

radiant red

5w30

SteveB

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5w30

AlexF

all newish fords are 5w30.,..

but you could always look on www.castrol.co.uk

sedan man

fook it another 20 down then

cheers people

BigMouthBillyBass

Out of interest, what's the difference between oil for diesel cars, and oil for petrol cars?

Or is this just Shell's clever marketing gimmick... i fell for it and bought the diesel stuff for my 2.0TDCi - Wasn't aware there was a difference but wanted to be on the safe side.

I always put standard oil in my van i had before (1.9SDi) and it never hurt it i don't think. Though having said that you can't really see any performance decreases in a 69hp VW Caddy, it just makes more noise when something is up

radiant red

diesel oil has more detergants (bad spelling) in for cleaning purposes as an oil burer is a dirty dirty engine

AlexF

Not alot...

BUT

it might not be the same specification as a petrol from the same manufactuer used. EG VW diesels use some seriously expensive oil.

Alex

AlexF

tupically they are about the same... but it definatly has more dispersents in it, this stops the soot in the oil becoming lumps of carbon and blocking things.

Alex

BigMouthBillyBass

Cheers for that

Is it worth using the diesel specific stuff over magnatec? or even the motorcraft (?) stuff that ford recommend?

radiant red

me old man uses 5w40 full synthetic diesel oil in saab 3.0 td as reccomended.Can only be a good thing to use specificaly designated oil mate

lukes1

ford use 5/30 semi synthetic in nearly everything, especially anything zetec. the galaxy pd (i think- its 1 of the vag engines anyway) uses something like 0/40 or 0/30. but a puma definately 5/30 semi.

BigMouthBillyBass

My Focus has just had it's 12,500 mile (after 6 months ) service end of december so levels are fine, but it's good to know. The handbook says to use the motorcraft stuff, will check the specifics tomorrow and see what spec it recommends

sedan man

cheers people got 5-30 magnatec cost £28 but worth it i suppose