With most requirements for oil companies to conform to standards (SAE for example) pretty much anything will be safe to use, the rest is marketing. Unless you're using a bleeding-edge high performance engine, it doesn't really matter. Especially if you're using it at a high rate, any extra money yo...

awood wrote:Just keep a 4 liter bottle of your favorite oil brand in your boot.
Pick them up in the bigger car parts shops when there on special.
Also , welcome mate , always good to see a new member on here.

Good idea, I might do that although my car is usually full of people or stuff

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At 269k and burning oil anyway it won’t matter at all what brand of oil you put it in,just stick with 10w40. Thank you. Also I heard that most oil here is the same, just rebranded so that they can ask for more money for the "better" brands, so that always made it extra difficult for me to...

Hello all, first post here so prepare your pitchforks for what I'm about to ask (also please note that English isn't my mother language) So yesterday I hit 269k kms (nice) on my 2008 1.5 Lancer sedan, and for the last couple of months I've noticed that she's eating some oil.. about 1L per 1000 kms. ...