What oil in alloytec? 100,000km?

[kizza50]

Well my car is due for it's 120,000 km service and i tried searching, couldn't find anything relating to my scenario, I know I'm due for plugs and all aswell so will be changing them, but wanting to know what oil I should use in my alloytec that's due for it's 120,000 km service



A mate uses magnetech but iv been told this can upset the oil pressure switch,

Any quick advice would be much appreciated, cheers

[TinSnips]

Any reason not to use the specified grade of oil?

[kizza50]

Specified grade is 5w/30, now another question is having done over 100,000 should you thicken it up a touch and due to summer coming go a better heat range like 10w/50?? Or castrol edge 5w30?

[TinSnips]

I have Anglomoil 5w30 running through mine at the moment, will go in at the next fill and the fill after - There's a whole range of issues that can affect what oil you should use - but if your motor is not unusually worn or heavily modified, I see no reason to deviate from the specified grade.

[UFO]

where you located mate? pop it in your profile!

different parts of australia lend themselves to different road conditions, and whilst standard spec oil should be fine there is a sliding scale for adverse conditions.

[kizza50]

Melbourne Victoria south east suburbs, so I should be fine with castrol edge 5w 30??

[Jonno]

just stick with the propper grade oil.

[CAPRILICIOUS WL]

Looking at dropping the oil again after just 3000km as the engine has become quite noisy, sounds like a diesel engine. Lol
Atm it's got the nulon fully synthetic 10w-40 oil ,it's made it too noisy but it's not a terrible noise.

Iv decided to try out the semi-synthetic PENRITE oil as I heard Nulon tends to make the alloytec abit noisy.

My question is to get rid of this noisy engine sound should I go for 5w-40 or the 10w-30 in the penrite oil.
It's sitting at 140,000km.

Thanks.