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EST-071
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:19 pm 
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Just after everyones ideas on the best engine oil to use in a daily driver that does 500km a week.

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Castrol GTX 20W50 is the poison here.

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Castrol Formula R, 25W/50 (they say same stuff as the old GP50) :wink:
I found it holds pressure better when hot than GTX2 (20W/50) does.

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Hmmmmm - might try the stuff - might stop the leak me thinks

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Yea, that Castrol Forumula R is good stuff, The gear changes are so much better with it, i read a little brochure for it and it says that is can be used as a replacement oil in certain gearboxes 8)

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omg u travel 500kms a week?
hehe sooner or later ur gonna hav to overhaul all ur bits n pieces of that car! :wink: :wink:

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hey mate, looks like your cars only running on three cylinders!
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It's called driving your car kaz ;) I do an easy 500k's in my car a week as well, sometimes 1000 8)

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Mini Mad wrote:
I do an easy 500k's in my car a week as well, sometimes 1000 8)


All in PJ?
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Yeap, most weeks it's about 500, then if I go for a drive on the weekend it'll bump it up...

I have a bike as well, so sometimes he doesn't get driven much to work, but I just can't stand to see him sitting there :wink:

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Mini Mad wrote:
................but I just can't stand to see him sitting there :wink:


Here Here.

Give this man a cheer. I too hate to see cars just sitting around. Cars were built (and in a lot of our cases re-built) to be driven!! What's the point of having a Mini or any other nice car and not driving it??

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Mini Mad wrote:
................but I just can't stand to see him sitting there :wink:


Here Here.

Give this man a cheer. I too hate to see cars just sitting around. Cars were built (and in a lot of our cases re-built) to be driven!! What's the point of having a Mini or any other nice car and not driving it??

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I totally agre, this mini was built to be driven. If you keep the general mantinace up to it, it will last a life time.
Cheers Pete

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I've only had my mini for a year now, but touch wood, apart from a few teething problems when we first got it on the road, it has been reliable motoring as a daily driver. I just can't wait to have the time and money to start fixing it up the way I want it, but even the way it is now I wouldn't have any other car!!!

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Good to see people who get out there and drive, rather than having a trailer queen..

Here's PJ in motion as it should be ;)

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Out in the wild :shock:

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Where were those photos taken??

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I use Fuchs Formula 60, (I'm told it's basically equivalent to the Castrol GP50) - when I first got my blue cooper, I changed to the Fuchs and it ran 10 degrees cooler, quieter, smoother...

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