4.8 10 or 15k km oil changes. What say you?
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Re: 4.8 10 or 15k km oil changes. What say you?
Get a Sumpy Graham.
And a few bricks to put it on.
And a few bricks to put it on.
Mag ons ons kenniskry met lekkerkry aanhoukry.
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Re: 4.8 10 or 15k km oil changes. What say you?
Sounds like me. Oil everywhere each time.
My fuel filter gave me about 40 minutes of grief last month. The fuel lines were so stuck on the filter that I almost had to call my wife to do it. But that thought gave me the motivation I needed and I managed. When I poured the fuel out the old filter, it was BROWN! Really happy I did it and I think it was last done by G-Tech many years ago.
Also I used the Shell Helix mineral oil, not a synth or semi-synth this time, and it runs a lot smoother. just my 2c worth of info.
My fuel filter gave me about 40 minutes of grief last month. The fuel lines were so stuck on the filter that I almost had to call my wife to do it. But that thought gave me the motivation I needed and I managed. When I poured the fuel out the old filter, it was BROWN! Really happy I did it and I think it was last done by G-Tech many years ago.
Also I used the Shell Helix mineral oil, not a synth or semi-synth this time, and it runs a lot smoother. just my 2c worth of info.
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Re: 4.8 10 or 15k km oil changes. What say you?
Yip, I’ve got one. Very handy thing.
Thanks for the tip on the bricks
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Re: 4.8 10 or 15k km oil changes. What say you?
HX3?
Thats what I got in my 4.5 currently...
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Re: 4.8 10 or 15k km oil changes. What say you?
Jip, that's the one. Will use it from now on. Are you happy with it ?
***edit.... Sorry Fanus, it's the HX5 I used.
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Re: 4.8 10 or 15k km oil changes. What say you?
So far. The 4.5 used a little bit of oil from time to time when I had hx7 in, seems to be better now.
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Re: 4.8 10 or 15k km oil changes. What say you?
Oil change done.
Took about 2 hours, but that involved a slight misshap where i was a little over zealous with the pouring and added about 500ml too much.
I didn’t know such stress existed until lying under the car, slippery sump plug in one hand and a small container in the other, knowing one slip of that sump plug and I’ll have 7l of new oil everywhere!
Once the plug was back in I actually had to take a moment flat on my back under the car to calm down.
I also used the shell hx5. Hopefully it helps a bit with the oil use. I think I used close to a litre in this last 10 000kms
Took about 2 hours, but that involved a slight misshap where i was a little over zealous with the pouring and added about 500ml too much.
I didn’t know such stress existed until lying under the car, slippery sump plug in one hand and a small container in the other, knowing one slip of that sump plug and I’ll have 7l of new oil everywhere!
Once the plug was back in I actually had to take a moment flat on my back under the car to calm down.
I also used the shell hx5. Hopefully it helps a bit with the oil use. I think I used close to a litre in this last 10 000kms
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Re: 4.8 10 or 15k km oil changes. What say you?
Good to hear you came right. Did you get to the petrol filter? And perhaps air filter?
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Re: 4.8 10 or 15k km oil changes. What say you?
I didn’t unfortunately.
I did pull the airfilter out just to check. It was very clean - even when I hit it against the tyre minimal dust came off, until I hit the metal part of it on the rim by mistake and bent the little lip on the cirmuference of the filter housing. After that I decided it was enough diy/ buggering up for one day.
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