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• Which oil for my petrol Passat 26 Feb 2007 (Forum)
  After four main dealer services when the car has been filled with 10W/30, this time the dealer has used Castrol 5W/30 Longlife III on my 2.0ltr 8V Petrol Passat. Just wondered if this is wrong and why they would suddenly change. What do I top it up with? Can I use the 10W/30 Halfords Oil that I recently bought?
• Ford Ka 30k service 29 Feb 2004 (Forum)
  The last time i had my Ka serviced, when the oil was changed a good quality shell 5w40 mineral oil was put in (less than 3000 miles ago). This year with my next service looming i want to start using a fully synthetic oil (0w40)in the car and was wondering if it could go straight in without doing any harm. cheers for any help
• Vectra oil check sensor 23 Jun 2002 (Forum)
  Is the sensor ultra sensitive or is there a fault? The car is still under warranty, so it isn't a problem if the sensor needs changing.
• 303,000 mile Rover Montego 30 Aug 2001 (Forum)
  My wife's Rover Montego 2.0 GSi {petrol} , 1990 on a G, has done 303,000 miles. Is this a record? Oil changed every 5000, only pay £3.00 for the oil, sometimes use second hand oil drained from my Volvo 940. Only needed £15 of bits of a scappper to pass the MoT. Third party insuance. Cheap motoring or what?
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  Crunchy on the inside 19 Sep 2011 (Ask HJ)
  My wife has just purchased a FIAT 500. It was registered October 2010 but has only done 40 miles having been an unused, ex BSM car (no dual controls, etc....
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  What has caused a major engine failure in my Fiat 500 Multijet diesel? 30 Nov 2013 (Ask HJ)
  In 2008 I went to a Fiat dealership and, with the help of the car salesman, configured a 500 Multijet diesel to my 'needs' and to a very high spec. Having...
• Audi A4 - Multi-tronics gear box issues 9 Jun 2020 (Forum)
  I have a  2018 plate 1.4 TFSI black edition s tronic and have been advised by my dealer that because I did not change the gear oil at the correct time/miles has caused a fault meaning a new main control gear box unit ECU is required (not covered under warranty due to me not changing the oil at the correct time doh  and at a 2k cost).
• SEAT Leon - Any help appreciated 28 Apr 2011 (Forum)
  I took my car in for an MOT & service this saturday and had a phone call from the garage to say that car had passed the MOT but when they had drained the oil, for the service, they found that the coil that goes into the sump had been cross threaded by whoever had changed the oil last and they can't now put anymore oil in until either they can find someone to re-bore the sump or, more likely I will need a new sump.
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  Does my SEAT Ibiza need a new cam chain and tensioner at 50,000 miles? 11 Sep 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I just got a SEAT Ibiza 1.2 05 reg with the AZQ engine. It has full service history with 50,000 miles on it. Do I need to fit the new cam chain and tensioner?...
• FIAT - 03 2.0 g/box oil refill brake query for Ducato 24 Jul 2008 (Forum)
  just completed a new clutch change and want to refill gearbox with new oil. i cant see a drainage plug to drain remaining oil out and also cant see the refilling point. the gearbox does have a breather cap and some kind of electronic plug on the top, can one of these be removed to refill?
• Peugot 207 - Is it OK to mix OW-30 and 5W-30 oils? 17 May 2024 (Forum)
  Safest bet is therefore to use 0W-30. But what if the existing oil is 5W-30, will mixing the two oils cause any damage? Want to try and avoid having to do a full oil change in a garage (also not too keen on driving it to the garage if the oil is very low). Any advice welcome!!
• Mini Cooper S - Turbocharger warranty 7 Nov 2021 (Forum)
  In August this year the turbo on my mini went. 2K later the garage fitted a new one and said that an oil change after 500 miles is advised or it may void the manufacturers warranty. Low and behold I completely forgot about this and have only just booked it in for an oil/filter change 3000 miles later.
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  Suzuki Swift - cam belt or chain? 22 Aug 2016 (Ask HJ)
  Does the 2013 Suzuki swift 1.2 petrol have a cam belt or chain? And how often does it need changing?
• Peugeot 106 (1991 - 2002) - 95 1.5D Biodiesel in a Peugeot 106 21 Jul 2010 (Forum)
  I have a Peugeot 106 with the 1.5 diesel engine, has anyone experience on running this on either biodiesel or mixing cooking oil with pump diesel? On another site, which I can't now remember the name of, it recommended not running veg oil with the Lucas pump, but changing it for a Bosch one. However looking at some of the previous threads on diesel pumps, changing them round can be quite tricky.
• Audi A4 (1995 - 2000) - Turbo noise 2.5v6 TDI 12 Nov 2007 (Forum)
  Hello - hoping that someone can give me some advice. I'm getting alot of noise from the turbo charger when the changing gear, following depressing the clutch and lifting on the accelerator. Even at low engine revs it sounds like an pack of geese, this sound quickly dissapates after a couple of seconds. The car is at 130k and is serviced every 10K oil change etc, the engine has started to burn a bit of oil recently, but nothing extreme.
• Volvo 850 - 1995 9 Dec 2002 (Forum)
  It has done 74,000 miles and is an automatic, 2-litre 20 valve model. Does anyone have any top tips regarding when the timing belt should be changed, what would be a good interval for oil changes (mainly urban use, with the odd blast up & down the full length of the M1), which oil to use, etc etc. I tried the Volvo Owners' Club website but it wasn't very helpful.
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  My oil pump broke after its MoT and service - what do I do now? 2 Jun 2017 (Ask HJ)
  I had my 2013 Vauxhall Corsa serviced and MoT done at a garage. The next day the oil light came on and a weird noise from the engine happened. The MoT...
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  Dip sick 10 Sep 2011 (Ask HJ)
  I've just had my Toyota Urban Cruiser 1.4 D-4D’s first 10,000-mile service by the Toyota Garage that sold me the car 9 months ago. When I got home (approx...
• Ford Fiesta 1.25 - Engine oil - synthetic semi or full 9 Oct 2018 (Forum)
  Hi, I have a 2015 Fiesta 1.25 and need to change the oil and ant the right product . The Ford car manual says use WSS-M2C948-B or C Halfords do Castrol as above spec and its fully synthetic Eurocarparts do Shell Helix which is semi synthetic no mention of the WSS number that I can see.
• Ford Mondeo III (2000 - 2007) - 03 1.8 engine burning a bit of oil & smokey 11 Jul 2009 (Forum)
  just got the car of a mate it is highe milaged done 150,000 i have flushed the engine i have changed the oil on the car and filterit is only smoking a bit is the anything i can put in the oil 2 help it stop smoking a bit if not it looks like another engine when the engine is running it sounds verry quiet and revs up verry well any advise please