Halfords oil deals

[Drive Blind]

Anyone seen these recently, or are they a thing of the past ?

I used to regularly get the Halfords own 'Ford spec' 5w30, 4l for about £12 on special offer.

[micky metro]

Asda do fully synthetic oil to manufacturers spec for £26 for 5 litres but they occasionaly do a "roll over" price and reduce it to £13. I suspect it,s no different to castrol magnatec/edge etc.

[vikingaero]

Asda is currently around £15 for the grey/silver 5w-30 as I picked one up last night.

[gforceg]

Last weekend Halfords were doing 20% off certain oils, so not a massive reduction. I bought a couple of jugs of 5-30 just to have in stock.

[ToothbrushMan]

try euro car parts their oils are always low priced for the same spec.

[E-bmw]

I use the bay of e & get 25 litres for generally around £50 to £60. With known brands.

[Drive Blind]

thanks for the suggestions

[VanDiesel99]

Sign up to Euro Car Parts mailing list, they regularly send out 'Deals' at up to 50% off. You should expect to see a deal about once a week ish.

I don't rate their Triple QX Brand stuff. I've been using Wilkinson oils for years now, about £15 for a gallon. Semi-Synth 10-40 in my case.

Use your local Independent / Small Chain if you can in preference to Halfords, I've found them useless.

[j4ckos mate]

Car parts 4 less

I got an oil and filter and it was about 25.
And then t was delivered same day.
I couldn’t believe it

[dave_s13]

You can get 10litres of Mercedes branded oil from a Mercedes dealer on eBay for about 40quid.

Which is obviously ideal if you have a merc.

[t400ble]

j4ckos mate said:

Car parts 4 less

I got an oil and filter and it was about 25.
And then t was delivered same day.
I couldn’t believe it

Another name for Euro car parts

[trickywoo]

t400ble said:

j4ckos mate said:

Car parts 4 less

I got an oil and filter and it was about 25.
And then t was delivered same day.
I couldn’t believe it

Another name for Euro car parts

They do however often have cheaper oil in particular than ecp.

[Drive Blind]

OP here

I went with Tesco oil in the end. Currently doing 2l tubs at half price = £6. Offer on to the end of October.
Tesco own brand, 0w-30 fully synthetic, they have ford, vw, merc spec etc.

[ninjag]

Perhaps I'm just being conned but when it comes to engine oil I don't like using own brands etc. In the past I tried Halfords own once and the engine sounded rougher again pretty quick compared to using Mobil 1. I now just put Honda's own oil in my Honda and Mobil 1 in the Suzuki.

I just can't get my head around how a £6 4L container of oil is going to be up to the quality needed for such an important role in the car? But as said, maybe I'm just falling for the marketing hype, but then an extra £20-40 once or twice a year doesn't bother me when it comes to engine oil.

Interestingly, when it comes to Honda rear diffs, you have to use their own DPS-F fluid because even 3rd party fluid which is apparently the correct spec isn't good for it?

[Drive Blind]

I take your point onboard about using cheaper oils.

I take care of the servicing and maintenance of 2 relatives cars. Both are 1.6l na petrols and do about 4K miles per year. No turbos or dpf's to worry about. The oil gets changed once a year and the cheap stuff at the correct spec is perfectly adequate IMO.

My own car gets the proper posh oil.

[51mes]

I keep an eye out for the deals for Halfords Classic - the MGB seems to love it ;-) and as I only do about 2K a year in it, and it seems to be reasonably respected as a classic car mineral oil - I'm happy.

The S2K gets OE Honda oil - my specialist buys it by the barrel - and charges accordingly.

S.