Mineral Oil

[Ricco_04]

Hi all, Im trying to get some more oil for my FD but all i can seem to find is full and semi synthetic.  Does anyone one know where I can get some mineral oil (kidderminster, Worcs).

Also which is good to use - the car is completly standard and I dont wrag it but I dont really want to go for the Halfrauds home brew stuff (which just says for old engines, nothing about turboed or injection engines :confused:   )

Cheers, Ricco.

[scooby_si]

castrol mineral oil (there are similarly labelled part synth stuff too so make sure) 10W:40 is usually available from Halfords....
Si

[Fish]

Its the stuff in the white castrol bottles.

Fish

[Ricco_04]

Cheers chaps, guess I was being short sighted again.  Some ones really dont seem to have it on so I asked them the once and they where trying to convince me to put some semi in!! (which I did (bout 4months ago)- could this do anything bad??)

Will get my eyes checked and go get some more! but thanks again

[Mart160plus]

If you can\'t find that go to your local Mazda garage and buy 5 litres of the mineral oil they recommend for Renesys engines and before, £29.99 IIRC.

Mart.

[gsb876]

As Si says you can pick up mineral oil from Halfords quite a decent price too.

Dont do what my mrs did and put the same oil in a normal car like?:rollin

[Initial-D]

So many different oils in Japan for rotary, what\'s the choices we have here other than 10w 40??

What\'s the benefits of using these specialist oils??

Anyone??:confused:

[g11ary]

I have a range of Royal Purple fully synthetic oils in stock, its the only fully synthetic I believe tha is recommended for rotarys. In 2 weeks time I have the first batch of 5 ltr cans coming in as until now it was qtrs or 1ltrs.

http://www.hannibalrx7.co.uk/acatalog/Royal_Purple_Oils.html

[Initial-D]

What\'s gonna happen when I add that to my mineral based engine? (Sorry if that\'s a dumb question)!:rolleyes:

[zevans]

Originally posted by Initial-D
What\'s gonna happen when I add that to my mineral based engine?

Possibly bad things according to some... the mineral oil builds up seals on this that and the other over time. If you change to synth it -can- dissolve those seals. More important if you have piston rings of course.

I\'d ask a different question - if it\'s happy on mineral oil and always has been, why spend extra money and introduce risk by changing to synth?

[Initial-D]

Quite right! I guess if it ain\'t broke;)

(well it is but it\'s being fixed)!:rollin