PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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Cost me just under £20 for oil & filter inc VAT, 5ltr of 15W40 Semi-Synthetic.
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MatthewR
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Registered: 21st Oct 02
Location: Rickmansworth
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Thats alright
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bradfincham
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Registered: 20th Sep 02
Location: East Of England Drives: Clio 172
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i paid £14 for 5 litres of 10/40w semi synthetic and a new filter for my xe last week
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broster
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Registered: 6th Dec 02
Location: Drives: E39
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yeah baout right mate, tis the best place to get oil and filter from
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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cool just thought id check as just thought I remember some other 'off-the-shelf- tat costing over £25 for 5ltrs...
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goldfish
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quote: Originally posted by PaulW
Cost me just under £20 for oil & filter inc VAT, 5ltr of 15W40 Semi-Synthetic.
whya re you putting 15w40 shite into your car
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goldfish
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I paid £12 for my oil and filter
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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quote: Originally posted by goldfish
quote: Originally posted by PaulW
Cost me just under £20 for oil & filter inc VAT, 5ltr of 15W40 Semi-Synthetic.
whya re you putting 15w40 shite into your car
recommended to use that over 10W40...
why what would you use on an X16XE with just under 8k miles...
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Greasemonkey
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Registered: 17th Apr 02
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£9.99 for 5 litres of vauxhall oil and oil filter down here hehe
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PaulW
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ya wee bastard ya
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goldfish
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quote: Originally posted by PaulW
quote: Originally posted by goldfish
quote: Originally posted by PaulW
Cost me just under £20 for oil & filter inc VAT, 5ltr of 15W40 Semi-Synthetic.
whya re you putting 15w40 shite into your car
recommended to use that over 10W40...
why what would you use on an X16XE with just under 8k miles...
what does the hand book say. I doubt it would be 15w40. thats quite thick for this Country. it probably recomends 10w40 or 5w30
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Joff
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Registered: 17th Oct 00
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quote: Originally posted by broster
yeah baout right mate, tis the best place to get oil and filter from
What?!?! Not a VW garage??
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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duno as cant find it 
ahwell spose I could do another change & charge it to work instead...
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broster
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Registered: 6th Dec 02
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quote: Originally posted by Joff
quote: Originally posted by broster
yeah baout right mate, tis the best place to get oil and filter from
What?!?! Not a VW garage??
thats the best place to get oil from when you have no idea what it is and put it into your mates engine as its fubar'ed already
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Rob H
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Registered: 28th Oct 00
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It always makes me laugh when my dad gets me and oil filter from Vauxhall, and you see the price he paid is a quater of the retail price .
[Edited on 18-10-2004 by Rob H]
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corb
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Registered: 24th Apr 02
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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trade club, less than a fiver for 5litres of 10w40
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sassyminx
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Registered: 10th Jan 04
Location: Hartlepool Drives: Cossie
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on a gsi ure supposed to use
15w 40
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goldfish
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15w40 is particularly thick for this country. if you lived in greece I could understand but it won;t give great cold start performance
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