Getting Albert in the morning!

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Nige

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• Dec 20, 2004

• #1

Albert the 88" S3 is being delivered tomorrow, cant wait for a good old fashioned 'freeze my nuts off'
session to have a good look round it tomorrow!

Better get some EP90 & engine oil then! Speaking of engine oil, would you recommend some high mileage
type engine oil for the 2.25L Petrol engine?

Nige

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Subaru WRX (The Bitch)

S3 88" (Albert)
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Alex

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• Dec 20, 2004

• #2

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:11:47 -0000, "Nige"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Albert the 88" S3 is being delivered tomorrow, cant wait for a good old fashioned 'freeze my nuts off'
>session to have a good look round it tomorrow!
>
>Better get some EP90 & engine oil then! Speaking of engine oil, would you recommend some high mileage
>type engine oil for the 2.25L Petrol engine?
>

Depends on how much it uses. A good quality classic 20w50 is best,
forget semi or synthetic. If it's using pints of the stuff then get
the cheapest you can find......

Alex

 

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SimonJ

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• Dec 20, 2004

• #3

>
> ......... would you recommend some high mileage
> type engine oil for the 2.25L Petrol engine?
>
New engine oil would probably be better.

 

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Nige

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• Dec 20, 2004

• #4

SimonJ wrote:
>> ......... would you recommend some high mileage
>> type engine oil for the 2.25L Petrol engine?
>>
> New engine oil would probably be better.

LOL!

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Paul S. Brown

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• Dec 20, 2004

• #5

Nige wrote:

> Albert the 88" S3 is being delivered tomorrow, cant wait for a good old
> fashioned 'freeze my nuts off' session to have a good look round it
> tomorrow!
>
> Better get some EP90 & engine oil then! Speaking of engine oil, would you
> recommend some high mileage type engine oil for the 2.25L Petrol engine?
>

/me gets nervous

That was mine that was. I drove it a total of 6 miles in the entire time I
had it and never offroad.

I have *no* idea what's going to fall to pieces on him.

P.
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beamendsltd

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• Dec 21, 2004

• #6

In message <[email protected]>
"Nige" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Albert the 88" S3 is being delivered tomorrow, cant wait for a good old fashioned 'freeze my nuts off'
> session to have a good look round it tomorrow!
>
> Better get some EP90 & engine oil then! Speaking of engine oil, would you recommend some high mileage
> type engine oil for the 2.25L Petrol engine?
>
> Nige
>
> --
> Subaru WRX (The Bitch)
>
> S3 88" (Albert)
> __
>
>

20w/50 is what you want. If the engine is sound and doesn't leak
oil something like Formula or any other cheap motor oil will
do since it's usually not in there very long (and the engine
will be ok with any old rubbish). On the other hand, Morris
20w/50 Magnol is a very good "proper" oil, and Morris 20w/50
Ring Free is the mutts nuts - and a lot cheapr than most of
the branded oils.

Richard

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Mr Jolly

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• Dec 21, 2004

• #7

"Mr.Nice." <mr.nice@*nospam*clara.co.uk> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:55:59 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >In message <[email protected]>
> > "Nige" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Albert the 88" S3 is being delivered tomorrow, cant wait for a good old
fashioned 'freeze my nuts off'
> >> session to have a good look round it tomorrow!
> >>
> >> Better get some EP90 & engine oil then! Speaking of engine oil, would
you recommend some high mileage
> >> type engine oil for the 2.25L Petrol engine?
> >>
> >> Nige
> >>
> >> --?
> >> Subaru WRX (The Bitch)
> >>
> >> S3 88" (Albert)
> >> __
> >>
> >>
> >
> >20w/50 is what you want. If the engine is sound and doesn't leak
> >oil something like Formula or any other cheap motor oil will
> >do since it's usually not in there very long (and the engine
> >will be ok with any old rubbish). On the other hand, Morris
> >20w/50 Magnol is a very good "proper" oil, and Morris 20w/50
> >Ring Free is the mutts nuts - and a lot cheapr than most of
> >the branded oils.
> >
> >Richard
>
> I've recently been impressed by millers oils, they do a 20w50.
> www.millersoils.net look ad 'classic'.

and only in Brighouse:O)

 

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Nige

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• Dec 21, 2004

• #8

Paul S. Brown wrote:
> Nige wrote:
>
>> Albert the 88" S3 is being delivered tomorrow, cant wait for a good
>> old fashioned 'freeze my nuts off' session to have a good look round
>> it tomorrow!
>>
>> Better get some EP90 & engine oil then! Speaking of engine oil,
>> would you recommend some high mileage type engine oil for the 2.25L
>> Petrol engine?
>>
>
> /me gets nervous
>
> That was mine that was. I drove it a total of 6 miles in the entire
> time I had it and never offroad.
>
> I have *no* idea what's going to fall to pieces on him.
>
> P.

Just done 39 miles in it & performed very well. The gearbox requires a certain knack & the steering is
very unusual at the side of anything I have ever driven but I love it & am gonna give ait a bloody good
clean etc.

Did you check the levels etc matey? BTW, it seems to have 2 chokes, only the one on the steering column
works? Is the other one for something else altogether like a take off throttle??

Ta

Nige

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Subaru WRX (The Bitch)

Series 3 Landrover 88" (Albert)

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[email protected]

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• Dec 21, 2004

• #9

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:11:47 -0000, "Nige"
<[email protected]> made me spill my meths when he
wrote:

>Better get some EP90 & engine oil then! Speaking of engine oil, would you recommend some high mileage
>type engine oil for the 2.25L Petrol engine?

There was an interestng article in one of the LR mags not that long
ago about potential for problems using the latest silicon vodkakick
graphite enhanced turbo oils in older engines. Use an oil that was
contemporary for the vehicle when it was designed and you can't go far
wrong aparently, that's not the same as using any old cheap modern oil
though.

This link gives far too much info for your own good
http://www.chris-longhurst.com/carbibles/index.html?menu.html&engineoil_bible.html

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