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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2790 on: December 08, 2012, 11:02:09 pm »
bought some oil as im sure the garage I bought my car from 2 months or so ago would have put the cheapest crap in, prob just topped it up with crap come to think of it so I went out and bought the best.
two 5 litre bottles
one for top ups and one for a complete change

bought from Halfords, expensive at £46 for 5 litres but needs must, so that was £92 just for oil  :confused:

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Should have got that oil from euro car parts, can usually get 20 - 30% off. Would be much cheaper!
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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2791 on: December 08, 2012, 11:19:30 pm »
nope
http://www.eurocarparts.com/basket.php
only a few pound cheaper through them on older stock
they are charging £86.92 for two 4 litre bottles, my price is £92.00  for two (((5))) litres bottles, since the golf holds around 4.7 litres a 5 litre bottle is perfect so to do a complete oil change on 1 bottle,
remember there are 2 different variations of the Castrol edge out there, the other one is about £10 a bottle cheaper but it isn't the correct one for an 08 gti  :happy2:

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2792 on: December 08, 2012, 11:31:30 pm »
wasnt aware castrol did 5 litre cans...
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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2793 on: December 08, 2012, 11:48:24 pm »
This in the picture are 4l bottles though...

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2794 on: December 08, 2012, 11:51:19 pm »
This in the picture are 4l bottles though...

That's what I was going to post....

The 4L on the bottle gave it away!!

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2795 on: December 08, 2012, 11:52:21 pm »
This in the picture are 4l bottles though...

That's what I was going to post....

The 4L on the bottle gave it away!!

Not fookin difficult really...

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2796 on: December 09, 2012, 12:04:30 am »
lol muppet me, I thought they where 5 litre bottles, sorry long day on my own with the 2 kids shopping and they where running about mad in Halfords, then running about mad in b & q, oh and then running about daft in asda followed by running about daft in mcdonalds  :confused: :confused: :confused:
so yes they are cheaper on line but a couple of quid I guess, I kinda wanted it bought and out the way as my oil light came on the other day and I put 2 litres of garage cheap rubbish in to buy me time ( no point topping up with good stuff as the garage I bought the car from would have put cheap crap in to begin with )
so I will arrange a proper oil change soon after getting a filter from vw.
still expensive oil guys as you say and who knows if it REALLY is any better, I don't tbh

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2797 on: December 09, 2012, 09:41:09 am »
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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2798 on: December 09, 2012, 09:42:55 am »
Took the car to the local supermarket car wash for a scrub.

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2799 on: December 09, 2012, 10:11:50 am »
Took the car to the local supermarket car wash for a scrub.


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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2800 on: December 09, 2012, 10:15:03 am »
Took the car to the local supermarket car wash for a scrub.


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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2801 on: December 09, 2012, 10:45:28 am »
No, not mad. Basically can't wash the car on the road as usual. Went to the local supermarket that has jetwashing bays. Didn't use anything other than the pressure washer itself. Took my own supersprayer for citrus presoak, my two buckets were prefilled, took a load of microfibres, towels and quick detailer. It was quite pleasurable since I didn't have to worry about being run over.

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2802 on: December 09, 2012, 10:55:13 am »
No, not mad. Basically can't wash the car on the road as usual. Went to the local supermarket that has jetwashing bays. Didn't use anything other than the pressure washer itself. Took my own supersprayer for citrus presoak, my two buckets were prefilled, took a load of microfibres, towels and quick detailer. It was quite pleasurable since I didn't have to worry about being run over.

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2803 on: December 09, 2012, 11:27:09 am »
still expensive oil guys as you say and who knows if it REALLY is any better, I don't tbh

All I know Is the castrol edge meets VWs specification

My oil change isn't due for 2000 miles but I've booked a ramp for next sat to swap my exhaust over so I will be doing an oil change while I have access to a ramp to make it easier (I'd rather change my oil early than not be able to do it when there is snow or ice on the ground when its due)

I was £70 for 8l of oil and a VW filter and £30 for 3 hours of the ramp
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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #2804 on: December 09, 2012, 12:14:50 pm »
Finally had my new wheel fitted last week and just give it a good old clean. Just because I wanted to play with my new snow foam lance.

And here are the results.