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Title: Mixing Oil makes?
Post by: Tim Oldland on January 11, 2006, 01:13:27 PM

Bit of a stupid question this one.

I have Racing 76 10W-40 Mineral Oil in the FD at the mo, its been running on this stuff all its life, changed every 3k, but i can\'t get hold of any for a bit.

I know Castrol do a Mineral 10W-40, is it okay to add a litre of this to the Rex to top it up or is it not wise to mix the two?

Cheers

Title: Mixing Oil makes?
Post by: Tim Oldland on January 12, 2006, 02:04:05 PM

Surely someone must be able to answer me this?

Title: Mixing Oil makes?
Post by: Kieron on January 12, 2006, 02:23:41 PM

Give the nice and helpful people at OPIE oils a call.

Title: Mixing Oil makes?
Post by: mullins on January 12, 2006, 02:51:00 PM

I\'d mix mineral in my daily but not if I owned something like yours.

Title: Mixing Oil makes?
Post by: Tim Oldland on January 12, 2006, 03:10:47 PM

Gave the Opie chaps a call, and they said its fine to top it up with a bit of Castrol GTX 10W-40 Mineral, as its all the same stuff, just with different additives in it.

Reassuring to know!

Title: Mixing Oil makes?
Post by: Rich Cheung on January 12, 2006, 04:36:16 PM

Tim - Just to confirm I\'ve done exactly this with no problems.

Rich :)

Title: Mixing Oil makes?
Post by: banned advertiser on January 12, 2006, 11:49:11 PM

replied to this on fduk
You can mix like for like, and also some fully syns will mix, generally its veg oil like castrol R that wont mix

Title: Mixing Oil makes?
Post by: Mave on January 13, 2006, 09:13:24 PM

I\'m a bit surprised by the response; I thought that mixing different brands of oil was generally to be avoided, due to the potential incompatibility between the additive packages :(

Title: Mixing Oil makes?
Post by: oilman on January 16, 2006, 05:04:35 PM

You can mix it\'s not a problem.

Cheers
Simon

Mazda Rotary Club

General => General Technical => Topic started by: Tim Oldland on January 11, 2006, 01:13:27 PM