ABARTH 500 ENGINE OIL
Discussion
Hi everyone,
ive been the owner of a 2010 abarth 500 for around a month,it was bought from the Car People,who did a oil and filter change before I collected it.
It turns out they,ve used a 5W/30 fully synthetic oil as this is what they put in all their cars that are outside of warranty.
Does this oil differ enough from the 10W/50-10W/60 to cause problems?
ive been the owner of a 2010 abarth 500 for around a month,it was bought from the Car People,who did a oil and filter change before I collected it.
It turns out they,ve used a 5W/30 fully synthetic oil as this is what they put in all their cars that are outside of warranty.
Does this oil differ enough from the 10W/50-10W/60 to cause problems?
If the engine is intended to take 10W- then that's what I would want to put in it. The second figure relates to its hot performance, so a spec that requires an engine which remains thicker here isn't going to mix with an oil that is thinner at high temperatures.
Id suggest an oil and filter change to the correct grade and if it was mty car I wouldn't be driving it hard or making it hot through hard driving until I had done so.
I say this as someone whose turbocharged car needs 15W-60.
Id suggest an oil and filter change to the correct grade and if it was mty car I wouldn't be driving it hard or making it hot through hard driving until I had done so.
I say this as someone whose turbocharged car needs 15W-60.
GC8 said:
Anyone who uses the word weight when talking about oil's opinion should be disregarded. The W stands for winter.
Using the word weight when referring to oils does not necessarily mean that there is a misunderstanding over the W. Weight is still used to refer to varying viscosities of oil by people who understand that the W stands for Winter.celtic cross said:
Ive got to admit im confused!!!
Every independent and abarth main dealer are saying Selinia 10/60!
Is,nt 5/40 still too far away?
What does it say in the handbook? Every independent and abarth main dealer are saying Selinia 10/60!
Is,nt 5/40 still too far away?
There are cars out there which really need a 10-60. But they tend to be ancient American V8s. Fiat certainly recommend 5-40 for the 500 Abarth in the States.
My MR2 turbo likes it, too, but that's beside the point...........
Monty Python said:
GC8 said:
Anyone who uses the word weight when talking about oil's opinion should be disregarded. The W stands for winter.
Likewise someone who puts an apostrophe in "oil's".:-)
However, having taken time to actually read my post I believe that you have misread it: I have deliberately added the apostrophe and I believe it to be correct.
Ive included a quote below which I have embellished:
GC8 said:
Anyone-who-uses-the-word-weight-when-talking-about-oil's opinion should be disregarded. The W stands for winter.
With regards to 'weight': I maintain that it is a dumb American term which was rooted in their misunderstanding of the W in the specification.The majority of modern cars run on 5w30 fully synthetic, up until the mid eighties 20w50 was the mainly used oil grade which then went to 10w40 and with the almost universal switch to twin cam engines came the mainly used 5w30. In forty years in the motor trade Ive never come across a 60 grade engine oil, there are quite a few Japanese vehicles use thinner gear oils than 60.
GC8 said:
Im accepting that the OP is correct when he lists the approved grades for his own cars engine.
Why? He's been ringing round every miscreant and his dog and still has a Ford approved viscosity in the sump! (Mind you, that would be better than a 10-60!)GC8 said:
Gloopy stuff, but Im guessing that it was specified because prolonged hard use of the turbocharger causes a difficult to deal with rise in oil temperatures.
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