landy10

landy10

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Hi guys.

Got me new landy yesterday and drove home from kirkcaldy to dumfries was told when i picked it up that the oil would want changing every 5000 miles which is fair enough, what is the recommended oil for 200tdi engine?
And i also would like to know the best oils for gearbox, transfer box and diffs as im a bit of a regular oil checker (keeps me out the house you see):D
 
Use tractor universal oil at 80 pence a litre.

It's a far better oil than most of the expensive stuff from Halfrauds and the like.

My TD5 likes it. I change it every 5000 - 6000 miles depending how I feel.

CharlesY
 
as a seasoned 'change the oil sometime' kinda bloke i fail to see what all the fuzz is about with changing oil that often.. i regularly keep the same oil fer 18-24 months, covering up to 40,000ish miles with no noticable engine or other component wear.
me jag i've had for 3 1/2 years and about 50,000 miles and i'm only just thinking about giving it its second oil change. first was when i did the after a hose bust and overheated it.


i once had a vauxhall astra which covered 300,000 miles with one oil change and 2 sets of front pads.

i think the secret is , dint thrash em and drive sensibly , for example dint go bowling up to roundabouts then jump on yer brakes just back orf the throttler before hand. and dint rev the bollocks outta them when cold drive passivly fer a few miles till its warmed up then boot it.

so save yer self some money and extend yer service interval, cause lets face it the more often you service it the more money the makers make outta you so it pays them to tell you to service more often than is really required.. coupled with the inbuilt saftey margin everyone puts into everything theses days you end up chuckin money away fer nowt
 
any agricultural merchant will stock this. must be loads up your way! you can buy massive drums of it, or 5l at a time. do a search through yell.co.uk for agricutural supplies in your area, see what you get. do a ring around 1st to see what they got.

G
 
I buy 210 litre barrel of OVOLINE tractor universal once in while.
The last barrel cost me £135 + vat .... and that MUST be better than Halfrauds & Co.

Check the Ovoline site if you have any doubts Brett Oils Ltd

I wrote to them not long ago about using it in the TD5 .... so now I do.

Most of the stories the makers put about regarding oils is C-R-A P intended to scare us into spending ridiculous amounts of money on daft oils.

What's the most anyone has paid per litre for engine oil?

CharlesY
 
local landy garage wanted 17 quid a litre fer g/box oil fook nose what they wanted fer injun oil as that was my cue to fook orf
 
Dif oil is about 6 quid a ltr, ATF about the same and engine oil cheepest about 15 quid for 5 ltr. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy a browse round halfords but its like shopping harrods.
 
I must say I think Slob is completely wrong. Oil is cheaper than engines. I change my 300tdi oil at 6k kilo intervals which is about 3k miles or so. But we had until recently high sulphur content fuel which is the reason for that. A mate of mine didn't change the oil on his Fraud econobox and it was fine until it ran its main bearings....
 
i worked with with a well known german manufacturer(whose indicators never seem to bloody work) and the peeps that could afford M cars used to have to fork out 17.50 a liter for engine oil! foork off i say
 
JimAttrill said:
I must say I think Slob is completely wrong. Oil is cheaper than engines. I change my 300tdi oil at 6k kilo intervals which is about 3k miles or so. But we had until recently high sulphur content fuel which is the reason for that. A mate of mine didn't change the oil on his Fraud econobox and it was fine until it ran its main bearings....
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yer arse!! how the fook can i be completly wrong?? its a fact, whether you chose to believe it or not is up to you, but you can't sit there on yer arse sprouting **** about things you know nothing of.. i rarely change oil, my engines dint wear oot, are you really daft enough to believe all the bollocks folk talk about vehicles that have a full service history are good and anything else is crap?

we've all heard about the crap service you get from dealers so what make folk think that just cause they can stamp a service book that they will have done anything to it?
ah bet a lot of them full service history cars have fewer oil changes than mine

The truth is that servicing according to makers instructions is the same as throwing money away.

oh jings ah despair! ah really do! some turnip from darkest africa telling me that am completely wrong when .... oh am away fer a lie doon.
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maybe he's scared some of his customers will see it and not bother giving him money fer nowt any more.
 
slob said:
yer arse!! how the fook can i be completly wrong?? its a fact, whether you chose to believe it or not is up to you, but you can't sit there on yer arse sprouting **** about things you know nothing of.. i rarely change oil, my engines dint wear oot, are you really daft enough to believe all the bollocks folk talk about vehicles that have a full service history are good and anything else is crap?

we've all heard about the crap service you get from dealers so what make folk think that just cause they can stamp a service book that they will have done anything to it?
ah bet a lot of them full service history cars have fewer oil changes than mine

The truth is that servicing according to makers instructions is the same as throwing money away.

oh jings ah despair! ah really do! some turnip from darkest africa telling me that am completely wrong when .... oh am away fer a lie doon.
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maybe he's scared some of his customers will see it and not bother giving him money fer nowt any more.
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mr slob is right, i ran a T reg mondeo thing for 180K on 2 oil changes, never had it serviced, fixed the water pump when its bearings went, and had the belt changed when it should have been, never trashed the engine and when i sold it it ran better than many 50k vehicles, if id have had it serviced as per the book i'd have spent nearly 3k just of servicing

if it ant broke dont fix it.
 
I had a Mondeo 1.8TD estate I owned it for nearly 4 years. and covered 100,000 miles in it covering everything from short trips to long motorway journeys. It was used as my builders van all the time i had it and once carried 8 bags of sand (320kg) 2 bags of cement (50Kg) and 40 4" solid concrete blocks (a lot of Kgs)

In all the time I had it I changed the the oil and filters once. I had the Cambelt changed when I brought it and apart from Brake pads, tyres, hb cable, and front wishbones I never spent a penny on. It passed all it's mots without a problem and returned about 50MPG It finally went last Dec cos it needed all the brake lines replacing. and both bumpers changing. as well as a load of other small jobs.
 
redhand said:
I had a Mondeo 1.8TD estate I owned it for nearly 4 years. and covered 100,000 miles in it covering everything from short trips to long motorway journeys. It was used as my builders van all the time i had it and once carried 8 bags of sand (320kg) 2 bags of cement (50Kg) and 40 4" solid concrete blocks (a lot of Kgs)

In all the time I had it I changed the the oil and filters once. I had the Cambelt changed when I brought it and apart from Brake pads, tyres, hb cable, and front wishbones I never spent a penny on. It passed all it's mots without a problem and returned about 50MPG It finally went last Dec cos it needed all the brake lines replacing. and both bumpers changing. as well as a load of other small jobs.
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mine sat outside on the road for 12 months not going anywhere as i didnt want to sell it - i was made to sell it in the end as didnt have enough room for more LRs, i allmost had tears in me eyes when it went - i was pround of the fact that it had never ever once let me down, was totally as it came out of the factory (well other than 180K on the clock)

- the prat who bought it off me said just as he was gonna drive off in it

(in a brummy acent)

"the first thing i'm gonna do is paint thems brakes all red like those expensive cars have"

i was tempted to report it stolen and take it back off him.
 
I had a 16v astra gte a long time ago and free engine oil so i changed it every 2 weeks, after a couple of months the oil pump gave out at speed and by the time i had realised and stopped the engine it wa too late... engine cooked! Too much of a good thing ! I dont check miles when doing an oil change, i judge it on how fast it runs off the dipstick when its cold.
Anyway! LRs change there own oil, all -you- have to do is top it up and change the filter once a blue moon!;)
 
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