Oil Brands
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Alright I just picked a name out of the air of a typical car store the general public use such as them. You can buy recycled oils, although I admit I havn't seen any on sale for a while. Generally our waste oil that gets taken away I think goes for burning in oil fired power stations or something along those lines (that's what the bloke said iirc).Dogbreath said:
TB2000 - I wasn't having a crack at your dad's garage in particular, just the motor trade in general and the general opinion that any old oil will do. For some engines and cars you can get away with it, but certainly not all the time. In my own case where I have a bit of a sporty motor, I'd be horrified if someone put mineral oil in my baby! 
As for OEM stuff - yes I'm aware of the savings that can be made with unbranded stuff. But, for example should I be given the choice between an SKF wheel bearing and an white box product whose origin I don't know, I'll go with the SKF even if it's twice the price. Whitebox OEM stuff is only good if you know where the whitebox is from.
Funny you mention clutch cables and Renaults - that's the one thing I always buy from Renault on my Clio. Having used factor parts a number of times, they've never been as good as a genuine Renault cable. Since the clutch cable is such a pain to change on a Clio 16v, you don't want to be doing it every 6 months because of a part that saved you a couple of quid, it's just not worth it.
As for OEM stuff - yes I'm aware of the savings that can be made with unbranded stuff. But, for example should I be given the choice between an SKF wheel bearing and an white box product whose origin I don't know, I'll go with the SKF even if it's twice the price. Whitebox OEM stuff is only good if you know where the whitebox is from.
Funny you mention clutch cables and Renaults - that's the one thing I always buy from Renault on my Clio. Having used factor parts a number of times, they've never been as good as a genuine Renault cable. Since the clutch cable is such a pain to change on a Clio 16v, you don't want to be doing it every 6 months because of a part that saved you a couple of quid, it's just not worth it.
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What about Shell branded oil? I work in a Shell garage and we sell Shell Ultra (5W40), Super (15W40) and another one thats 10W40 but cant remember name of right now {hangs head in shame}. Anyone know how these compare?
No problemLowe said:TB2000 - I wasn't having a crack at your dad's garage in particular, just the motor trade in general and the general opinion that any old oil will do. For some engines and cars you can get away with it, but certainly not all the time. In my own case where I have a bit of a sporty motor, I'd be horrified if someone put mineral oil in my baby!
I know what you mean though. We have a few different containers of different oils (such as Fully synthetic, Semi-Synthetic, and a couple of others) for vehicles which must have it, but for 95% of the time the standard stuff is perfectly ok. To be honest we hardly ever get anything in which is classed as sporty anyway 
. The closest I think we get is an XK8 thats owned by one of the guys who owns and electrical shop in the yard. For the most part, all the parts we get from the local factors (we generally have a choice of three factors) are all branded in the sense you mention. SKF wheel bearings as you say and also stuff such as Delphi brakes discs and pads, Bosch batteries and the like.Lowe said:As for OEM stuff - yes I'm aware of the savings that can be made with unbranded stuff. But, for example should I be given the choice between an SKF wheel bearing and an white box product whose origin I don't know, I'll go with the SKF even if it's twice the price. Whitebox OEM stuff is only good if you know where the whitebox is from.
I must admit, we've had problems with cluitch cables for a couple of motors but it only seems to affect Renaults! The Clio as I mentioned, also we had an Espace which the clutch was unusable on till we fitted a Renault cable. The two cables looked identical apart from the fact in this case that the Renualt one was twice the price!Lowe said:
Yep same here.Lowe said:It's down to the routing of the cable when they convert em to RHD. Factor parts just aint up to the job.
Anyway we've gone on a right tangent here and I apologise to the OP. I'll butt out now
ive known Millers to be independantly tested and be proven to be marginally better than the competition in a variety of tests.
as has been said, its a much of a muchness, not a not of difference between them. there are standards they have to meet, and theyre on the back of the can.
Millers fully synth has been tested to perform better than Mobil1 and cost a fraction.
the most important factor is how regularly you change it.
as has been said, its a much of a muchness, not a not of difference between them. there are standards they have to meet, and theyre on the back of the can.
Millers fully synth has been tested to perform better than Mobil1 and cost a fraction.
the most important factor is how regularly you change it.