Who makes Halfords oil?

[Targarama]

Question: Does anyone know whether Halfords home brand oil is just someone else's repackaged?

[sday12]

Mazola

[jcelee]

The 5w50 Synth stuff is hotly tipped to be Comma

[Garlick]

Now you come to mention it, I have heard that Comma produce it too.

[Negative Creep]

AFAIK it's Duckhams

[3Dom]

The 20w 50 (Classic oil in the tin) is or at least was definitely made by comma. Funny as it was always more expensive than buying the Comma branded oil in any motorfactor.

[supersingle]

I went to Halfords on Sunday for some oil.

£20 for 5L of part-synth 10W 40. Silly money!

I walked out.

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Castrol.

[RonnieP]

Costco, £20 for 4 litres of Mobil 0-40W?, my mechanic reckons its the best stuff.

[Targarama]

RonnieP said:

Costco, £20 for 4 litres of Mobil 0-40W?, my mechanic reckons its the best stuff.

That depends on what engine you have.

[bigdods]

supersingle said:

I went to Halfords on Sunday for some oil.

£20 for 5L of part-synth 10W 40. Silly money!

I walked out.

Get a vauxhall trade club card (£20) then buy vauxhall semi-syn 10w40 £9 for 5 litres if you buy 4x5L bottles. £12 for 5L if you just buy one.

[Tielst]

Garlick said:

Now you come to mention it, I have heard that Comma produce it too.

Tis true, as we speak I am unloading a tanker of oil additive at Comma, so I asked them here and they make all Halfords own brand oil. They also make plenty of other things for Halfords including antifreeze.

Edited by Tielst on Wednesday 30th September 10:27

[lost in espace]

Costco semi synth VAG approved diesel oil 10/40 20 litres £30 plus vat. They do a petrol variant too, 0/40 I think same price.

[Chris_w666]

Who makes the oil in the Tesco branded bottles then? £15 for 4 or maybe 5 litres of semi and fully synthetic stuff the other day.

[reg_slr]

The 5/50 Synthetic is Comma.

[HellDiver]

A lot of the own-brand oils, including Vauxhall's stuff is made by Delphi.

[rob1234]

Halfords fully synthetic 5W40 is £11.99 for 5 litres with a trade card (IIRC). I have no problems with it, and becasue it's cheap, it gets changed more regularly - which can't be a bad thing.

[Fastra]

supersingle said:

I went to Halfords on Sunday for some oil.

£20 for 5L of part-synth 10W 40. Silly money!

I walked out.

Sorry to split hairs, but this is PH at the end of the day



Halfords 10W/40 Part Synthetic Oil 5L
£17.59

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/...

but then


Mobil Super S 10w/40 5L
£19.99
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/...

[Fastra]

rob1234 said:

Halfords fully synthetic 5W40 is £11.99 for 5 litres with a trade card (IIRC). I have no problems with it, and becasue it's cheap, it gets changed more regularly - which can't be a bad thing.

WOW,

Whats the process of getting a trade card..?

[Cabana]

Negative Creep said:

AFAIK it's Duckhams

There used to be plenty of rumours on the mini forums that I used that Halfords classic oil was made by Duckhams, I've no idea how true those rumours were though.