dave said:it dont go black on older cars if you flush engine out with a 50/50 mix of petrol and clean cheep oil during changing
oo it is its the life blood of your enginepoggy said:I don't think it is worth changing it more often.
I agree. This is the single most important thing that keeps your car alive I think. I always change the oil and filter at half the recommended interval. I'd rather spend £50 on oil (yes it costs that much for the coop) than pay the costs associated with premature engine wear.dave said:oo it is its the life blood of your engine
they dont test the cars for 150k miles before relese do they? i think they just gessThe Negotiator said:Why would they recommend an amount of time which would damage the engine? I expect a car may get away with 36k but they halve it just incase.
Modern diesel engines have service intervals of 18k.....
dave said:they dont test the cars for 150k miles before relese do they? i think they just gess
are but the recomended would be for normal driving, not 140 mph on motorway (i wont menshion no names, but its a girl ) and be standard no chips induction kits etcThe Negotiator said:They probably do actually. Although in a lab...
Seriously though, if you follow the correct service intervals for a scenic Dci which I assume is the same for the JTD fiat range, you only have to say hi every 18k.
but they cant be same as real life driving. like going to pick up mate, stop start, pop to shop stop start, then 140 down motorway, then sit in traffic for 2 hours, then more stop starts,poggy said:They do several tests, some are enviromental room simulations, i.e low/high temperature, various road surfaces etc etc. This is then followed up by road testing in various environments, many companies use a place in Norway I believe for the cold weather stuff.