Oil question (yawn....)

[Gad-Westy]

My S1 111s is due an A service which I'll be doing this weekend. I have everything I need other than oil. I thought I had some Mobil 1 Motorsport in the garage but it seems to have disappeared. So I've looking at the other fully synth options.

I can get another 4 litres of Mobil 1 from Halfrauds for about £40 but I'm reluctant to spend that on oil. I'm more of a frequent change of good oil rather than dragging out the intervals with expensive stuff.

I've seen the Silkolene/Fuchs type options but they seem to come in even more expensive than the Mobil 1.

Halfords do a fully-synth for around £30/4 litres. Any experience?

I also heard mention of a unipart/partco alternative, but I'm buggered if I can find any.

Really just after recommendations and suppliers if anybody can help.

[Cuzza]

Assuming it's not tuned or tracked much then I would've thought the Halfords stuff in the right grade would be fine especially if you're going to change it regularly. Untill I started doing trackdays I used Magnatec as that's what the garage put in there.

[Phil. S.]

If I remember correctly Costco sell Mobil 1 for around £25.

[ptp170]

Gad-Westy said:

Halfords do a fully-synth for around £30/4 litres. Any experience?

Halfords own is made by Mobil anyway...It's actually ok stuff. Personally, I use Royal Purple as my engines pushing a bit more power than standard

Chris

Edited by ptp170 on Monday 10th December 21:01

[bogie]

just get some Halfords fully synth, its a Rover K serie, designed to run on anything

unless you are tracking it a lot then theres no point in putting expensive stuff in there

[jfrf]

for real cheapskates there is always tesco 5/40 synthetic for about a tenner for 2 litres.

To be honest i doubt you will notice any difference whetehr it is expensive or cheap oil.