engine oil
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It's a RIP OFF!
No synthetoc oil is a better lubricant than any good mineral oil. But the synthetic oils can last twice as long between changes. This means that the crap and acids and muck stay in your engine twice as long.
Changing the oil physically REMOVES 95% of the crap and bad stuff.
Good mineral oil cost a whole lot less too. I use Tractor Universal in my TD5 Disco, and that stuff costs barely £1.50 a litre. So I can do an oil and filter change for under ten pounds. The Magnatech stuff is a semi-synthetic and will cost you between £6 and £10 a litre!
Madness paying money like that for hyped-up engine oil. They used to say Castrol spent more money PER LITRE on advertising costs than they did to buy the oil and stick it cans.
CharlesY
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hello nati, theres many oils that can be used in in your 300 tdi, 10/30, 10/40, 15w/40 and 20w/50 (in hot weather) like CharlesY said its best to use a cheaper oil and change it more often to get rid of all the small metal deposits and carbon build up than to use a synthetic or semi synthetic oil and change it less frequent, all a synthetic oil is, is a oil with a higher flash point so it is burned at a higher temp. also take a old computer harddrive to bits and get the magnet out and stick it on the sump bolt this will attract any pieces of metal instead of them floating round in your oil, i use 10w/40 mineral in mine and change every 4,500 or when the dipstick is as black as fire back lol, any more info needed on oil just ask because i work for a oil company 
, Castrol your paying for the name, packaging and advertising
, Castrol your paying for the name, packaging and advertisinghello nati, theres many oils that can be used in in your 300 tdi, 10/30, 10/40, 15w/40 and 20w/50 (in hot weather) like CharlesY said its best to use a cheaper oil and change it more often to get rid of all the small metal deposits and carbon build up than to use a synthetic or semi synthetic oil and change it less frequent, all a synthetic oil is, is a oil with a higher flash point so it is burned at a higher temp. also take a old computer harddrive to bits and get the magnet out and stick it on the sump bolt this will attract any pieces of metal instead of them floating round in your oil, i use 10w/40 mineral in mine and change every 4,500 or when the dipstick is as black as fire back lol, any more info needed on oil just ask because i work for a oil company
That's my boy!
You sock it to them!
CharlesY
Make no mistake - the actual oil is perfectly fine! It will do your engine no harm, but it won't do any more good than any other decent oil would do.
So it's no finer than any of the others you can buy.
Why pay £30 for 4 litres, when you can pay £6 for 4 litres of an equally good oil?
The disappointing bit about those fancy oils is only the price. It's really sad to realise that the oil companies KNOW they can depend on so many owners being so stupid they can be so easily persuaded to hand over four times as much as the oil is worth. The HYPE FACTOR! Don't fall for it.
But no LandyZone member would be such a mug as to pay mega-bucks for so called "fully synthetic" engine oils at a fiver litre or more - would they?
Tractor Universal .... way to go. Buy it in 25 litre cans and save more!
I buy 210 litre barrels!
CharlesY
