(G) What oil to use

I have a 1.9 sporting m jet on a 07 plate, which oil would you recomend to put in as it needs toping up?:

what it says in the manual......

Dont try to be clever and put any other oil in, from what ive read the diesel Oil has some additive to work with the Diesel Particulate Filter

IIRC its this you want either from your dealer or www.shop4parts.com


Shop4parts details:

Selenia WR 5w/40 - 1ltr
Diesel Engine Oil

Part Number: S4P1834
Manufacturer: Fiat Lubricants

Listed Price: £8.20
Our Price: £6.97
You Save: £1.23 (15%)

more info courtesy of the forum search

http://www.fiatforum.com/grande-punt...a-oil-dpf.html

http://www.fiatforum.com/grande-punt...ngine-oil.html

as from experience don't buy the cheap crap like autocare, get top stuff like castrol or as the manual states selenia

Its in the manual for a reason - sure you can put something else in, but if anything goes wrong, then you know who to blame

As purely a "top up" you can stick ANY synthetic oil in.... Whether it be for petrol OR diesel engines.

Wrong, no point, use the correct oil, Selenia. It saves complications if things go wrong.

Yeah its really not worth it saving £3-4 on top up oil if it causes £100's of damage which it probably will if the DPF myth is true.

Rubbish. A 1/2 litre top up of ANY synthetic oil is good enough & CANNOT cause ANY damage. The molecules mix as they heat up. Remember your Physics/Chemistry lessons from 5 years ago Chris?

A turbodiesel requires a "thicker" (less viscosity) oil than a petrol engine, however, the turbo bearings ideally need a "thinner" oil than that used by a diesel (to avoid clogging the pipeways). There is not much common ground. So, perhaps you can see that it really does not matter a jot whether you use synthetic "turbo-diesel" oil or synthetic "petrol engine oil"!

I can assure you that using a very expensive low viscosity petrol engine oil (Mobil1 etc.) will transform your car instantly.

Yes I know I did an oil change after a year on my old GPS with mobil1 fully synth and I agree it transformed how the engine performed.

What I was getting at was you recommending "Any" fully synth oil not all of them are high quality......

It was a low quality fully synth oil that caused my Alfa's bottom end crankshaft shells premature ware and the knocking that created . Unfortunately I didn't see there was much difference between them.

But the bottom line is that, UNDER WARRANTY you dont want to give FIAT a way out of a claim.

So... while under warranty stick with the manufacturers recommendations, after warranty its up to the owner.

Personally, as my GPS uses little or no oil I will stick with Selenia, for "top ups" if I need to and oil changes when the time comes.

Jeez over the period of time we are talking here why penny pinch? And yes this comes from me who moaned like stink at what I had to pay for my 2 litres of Diesel Selenia... £16.40!

Anyone who mixes oil types/manufacturers is a fool imo.

And a miserly tightwad!

P.S. I notice GPS170 is in a remap thread too, I cant imagine any way of being so hurtful to my engine than skimping on oil quality, mixing blends and adding a re-map... how insensitive.

In case you haven't noticed its our good old friend Mike who got banned

great we got that tool back. he never gives up.