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That looks absolutely wonderful Trevor. Like gar074 I'm afraid Becky has some signs of green mold in her nooks and crannies just now and, once I get those rear brakes properly sorted out I'll be giving her a proper "deep clean".Hi.
First big clean up of the year.
All plastics done, tyres and paintwork with ceramic detailer. Looking good.
IMHO you are not wasting money. I change my oil twice a year irrespective of mileage but I never do over 6000 per annum, I only change the filter once a year. My plugs are Denso Iridium and so far are unworn. I also service my brakes annually and have changed the gearbox oil when I got the car and will again this year, also a timing belt kit this year so just under 4 years since the car was registered.
Had mine a few mouths a 06 but only 21,000 up, the washers have
always been a bit sulky so took the jets out, never seen so much crap
looked like blue paper flushed out, looks like some prat as been putting
blue loo tabs in it, o well at least it will understand a good flush.
I used to do exactly as you, but after a stint with company cars decided me that modern oils really are capable of doing the business for longer. One car I took on had its first service at 75,000 miles when I found it had never had a service. There was no discernible difference in the car after the fresh oil. My variable service indicator in the Vectra only came on at 32000, albeit fairly hard miles.
Having done some huge mileages on a big range of vehicles I have now decided to to stick with the recommended intervals to save oil and money. We should compare notes over the next few years.
I will not ever again use the Petronas Syntium oils as the rattling on start up after a couple of days (all 3 cars)suggests its poor. Back to Mobil1 which never presented this issue. The last of the Panda oil is being fed to the drinking VW 1.4! Its in its last few months before recycling centre beckons now so I don't care.
Definitely top end rattle on mine.Hi.
The rattle from the Petronas after three or four days sitting is bottom end it goes after a second and instantly. This engine doesn't give any top end noise either, I use Granville or Technolube (made by Carlube) 5w40 C3 with no issues at all.
My original Lounge did this on start up and it had been just serviced by Parks before I purchased it. I wasn't happy with the oil and changed it a couple of weeks later and a new filter, the car never did it again.Definitely top end rattle on mine.
Now that's interesting, about the Petronas rattling at start up I mean. Becky is the only car in the family fleet (except the Kia which is still under warranty so gets who knows what at the dealer) which is not yet on my favorite Fuchs because I got the oil with the service parts for her from S4p and they do the Petronas. She's very slightly overdue a service right now and I've got Fuchs waiting to go in.
She's always rattled her tappets very slightly at start up and, if left without starting for a few days she rattles considerably more loudly - but only until the oil gets through so a matter of seconds only. When I did her cam belt the cam cover gasket I bought didn't come with the wee rubber "O" rings which seal the oil supply from the cover to the cam journal pedestals so I just left the old ones in place. I was beginning to wonder if maybe there was a small sealing problem with these which might be letting air in and allowing the drain down when the engine is stationary for longer periods to be more pronounced? My friendly wee Fiat garage tells me most of the cam cover gasket kits contain just the gasket and that therefore they wouldn't replace the "O" rings routinely and that they are not aware of it causing any problems. It'll be very interesting to see if the Fuchs makes a difference.
I took a shower before dressing.
Thanks so much for that. I'm half asleep still at this moment and your comment caught me unexpectedly, I actually laughed out loud - Mrs J has a puzzled expression on her face! My best "party piece" is getting in the shower with my hearing aids still in my ears. They really don't like getting wet but so far have always come back to life after a few hours on top of the hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard! Getting in the shower as soon as I get up is tending to stop me doing that!I'm sorry but I just cant resist.......I always shower before getting dressed so my clothes don't get wet!
There. It's out of my system now!
Hope the test results are favourable! And sorry again for being so childish
Rich
everything was ok, though they had a hard time at checking the rear axle brake because of 4x4 keeping in sending torque to the front axle and making the panda go off the rolls.