What oils & grease to use.

[chesney]

By 'eck, all t'pennies saved from not faffin' wi t'special oil goes right t'lager fund, Champion!
Roughly translated - "By jove, the money saved from one not buying overly expensive oils goes straight to the refreshment savings. Top notch!"

[MarkyB]

get the best to help save on an engine rebuild. later on

Based on what exactly, intuition?

[tomas.geoghegan]

There is talk that Wilko and Halfrauds own is the same stuff, so you may be flushing it through with the exact same oil
For me it's not worth paying for the expensive stuff (although as it happens there is only £1 difference between me buying Wilkos and Halfords 20/50). Still get Wilkos though .
It's oil for goodness sake! I remember reading somewhere that someone ran an A series non stop with no oil to examine the effects (this was a while ago), it lasted surprisingly long, the crank gave in eventually I think and the engine was later used for parts!
It all gets swilled round the sump, gets fed to the rockers, gets into the bearings. If the fancy tin makes you feel safer engine wise, then do it, but if you are using it to save on an engine rebuild then you had best fit a new oil filter every 50 miles too and change the timing chain and sprockets every 1000 miles etcetera, 'just in case'

I Think in life you get what you pay for and oil applies ?
Talking from experience . Tomas.

[tomas.geoghegan]

get the best to help save on an engine rebuild. later on

Based on what exactly, intuition?[/quote

NO QUALITY!

[MarkyB]

Perceived quality you mean.
API rating would have a lot more credibility.

[chesney]

I Think in life you get what you pay for and oil applies ?
Talking from experience . Tomas.

How can you know from experience that the posh stuff you put in lasts any longer than the conventional stuff
And you do get what you pay for - shame it's just the fancy tin and not the oil