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PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 8:54 pm 
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According to their stockist finder I have 3 in Noosa and 2 in Cooroy - one of them better have it

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:05 pm 
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Sweet, Aussie company making a product we need....

If you want a store to order it in for you, best stick to Auto One as they don't charge anything to get stuff in, whereas SC will. Don't know about Repco or Autobarn....

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:15 pm 
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I've been trialing this oil for a few months, seems to be quite good.
Reminds me very much of what HPR30 used to be 15 odd years ago...
Not sure what retail price would be exactly as I get it trade,
but would expect it to be in the same price bracket as Penrite's other premium oils.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:16 pm 
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I've got a mate here in SA going too see in sprints Salisbury have it. Pentrite distribution is closed til the new year so none can order it from them

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Sweet, Aussie company making a product we need....

If you want a store to order it in for you, best stick to Auto One as they don't charge anything to get stuff in, whereas SC will. Don't know about Repco or Autobarn....


They don't exactly charge you to get it in, they require a deposit, which is only fair. It is only to stop them having shelves full of stuff that people ordered but then changed their mind :shock:

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Its gotta be good, there's a mini on the front....We buy biscuit tins if they have a mini on the front...

forget the oil
have you seen biscuit tins with a mini on it? if yes, where, how many, and how much? ;) :D

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:47 am 
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i have been using 10-40 everyday full synthetic penrite, good?

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 1:37 pm 
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Interesting to compare it to the other Penrite products... It's got a lower flash point, consistently lower numbers for viscosity (which I read as being more viscous), slightly less dense, no magnesium (where others list a small quantity), lower zinc levels (.139% against .14% for Shelsey, .157 for HPR30, and .16% for classic light)... HPR30's now SM, Classic Light's SG, Shelsey's SC (wow!), and Mini? SJ... It claims to be high Zinc, but it's got a lower percentage by mass than any of the other oils. Which is odd. Everything else looks good.


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PostPosted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:45 pm 
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Panthersteve wrote:
BBY755 wrote:
Sweet, Aussie company making a product we need....

If you want a store to order it in for you, best stick to Auto One as they don't charge anything to get stuff in, whereas SC will. Don't know about Repco or Autobarn....


They don't exactly charge you to get it in, they require a deposit, which is only fair. It is only to stop them having shelves full of stuff that people ordered but then changed their mind :shock:


Maybe they've changed, but I was charged an overhead of 15 dollars for a pair of filters. I ordered four filters instead to make it a little less awful.

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Interesting to compare it to the other Penrite products... It's got a lower flash point, consistently lower numbers for viscosity (which I read as being more viscous), slightly less dense, no magnesium (where others list a small quantity), lower zinc levels (.139% against .14% for Shelsey, .157 for HPR30, and .16% for classic light)... HPR30's now SM, Classic Light's SG, Shelsey's SC (wow!), and Mini? SJ... It claims to be high Zinc, but it's got a lower percentage by mass than any of the other oils. Which is odd. Everything else looks good.



Doesn't sound good at all....

it sounds like a thinner, clearer oil. Its the additives we need is it not?

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 6:05 pm 
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ive got Penrite classic light 20w-60 in my mini as it was recommended by my local shop, any advantage in switching to 20w-50 classic mini oil?

ive always liked Penrite oil as it seems to stay cleaner longer in other cars ive used it in

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 6:07 pm 
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i have been using 10-40 everyday full synthetic penrite, good?


no - too light, use a 20w50, and not synthetic, apparently our gearboxes don't like synthetic

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Some of this was given away at the recent Vic Mini Club end of year function. I'll be interested to see feedback from the 8 members who scored the stuff.

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So to the smart people out there, could this be used in an automatic?

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 12:14 pm 
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Some of this was given away at the recent Vic Mini Club end of year function. I'll be interested to see feedback from the 8 members who scored the stuff.


Unfortunately the only things we as mini drivers can see from an oil is the length of time it stays relatively clean, and the oil pressure it gives us through different temperatures and loads.

This isn't the entire story however. The additives (like zinc for example as an extreme pressure agent or friction modifier) provide shear lubrication on sliding surfaces like our camshaft lifters which are out in the breeze halfway up the side of the block. There are many other additives and detergents which adjust for pH total base number,(to prevent acidic buildup), anti organics (bugs live in our oil when in bulk eating sulphur and respirating on oxides), visosity, friction modifiers, pour point, etc etc.

The only way we can truly test an oil in our engines is to run the engine on the oil exclusively for a very long time, pull it down and look at how the engine has worn in that time. A common example of this wear is through worn out camshafts at low kilometers.

The environmental viewpoint is that now lead is gone from our fuel, the next source of heavy metals is through the additives in our engine oils. The additives also have an impact on the operation of the catalytic converters as engines burn a little oil as they get older. So they have been reduced in modern oils over a long period of time.

Manufacturers have moved hand in hand with these reductions by designing out potential sources of wear in modern designs. Camshafts run in oil baths for example to keep the lifters and cam soaked in oil. We don't have that benefit in our old design engines, and as the older cars have disappeared from our roads, so have the older tech oils in the most part.

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