How to prolong the life of your petrol-engined car!

Rich · 2005-01-21T22:11:03+00:00

I was listening to a chatty radio show this evening and someonementioned that he knew someone who put £10 of deisel in with thepetrol on every fourth fill-up. He swore it prolonged the life of hisengines - and sure enough, his car has so far lasted 30 years....Just thought I'd pass it on... and listen out for your comments.Rich

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Andy Dingley 21 years ago

Trade ? Like Partco ?

I use two Partcos. One's near my place (Bristol), one's up at my parent's place (Southport), where I also have much more covered garage space and thus tends to be used for major car fettling. Bristol is still a sensible factor that sells wheelbearings, but the Southport shop is turning into fuzzy-dice and blue underlights for the noisy Nova crowd. As car reliability improves, the "old" model of a trade factor is changing. The other factors I use either don't even sell oil, or just sell their one favoured Valvoline brand and aren't cheap about it.

Halfords is cheap for high-quality own-brand oils.

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:::Jerry:::: 21 years ago

Look you moron, oil will prevent WEAR, it can't prevent stretching, no oil can - be that mineral or synthetic.

Chains wear even if immersed in oil.

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:::Jerry:::: 21 years ago

You're not related to Frank Spencer by any chance...

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:::Jerry:::: 21 years ago

I certainly wouldn't call Partco a motor factors anymore, if it ever was.

IMO a trade (of what ever trade) factors is a place where the non trade, although served, feel out of place IYSWIM.

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raden 21 years ago

In message , ":::Jerry::::" writes

He's certainly as accident prone

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StealthUK 21 years ago

I believe even standard unleaded has added detergents. BP Ultimate is just a higher octane petrol. Unless your engine requires that octane of fuel I don't believe there is any real benefit in using it.

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Mark 21 years ago

*Registered* as an agricultural Vehicle

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The Natural Philosopher 21 years ago

You mean te stretch even if immersed in oil, surely...:-)

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The Natural Philosopher 21 years ago

In general there is not.

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Roger 21 years ago

The message from "IMM" contains these words:

Now there is a first, or at least a first since I returned to this ng. dIMM sticking his head above the parapet and replying to one of Daves posts. He still misses the point of course but perhaps he has finally learned something. On second thoughts perhaps not, his snip drivel, etc. posts have multiplied in recent days. :-)

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:::Jerry:::: 21 years ago

Yes !

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Huge 21 years ago

Well, quite so. But I thought we were talking about the UK and IMM's woeful memory.

(I have 8.5 litres of Rover V8s and am considering getting another.)

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IMM 21 years ago

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IMM 21 years ago

Any proof, or are you just making this up?

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:::Jerry:::: 21 years ago

Yes, the basic principles of how the IC engine works !.....

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John Rumm 21 years ago

Agreed, but that has nothing to do with cooling...

And this is different from any other oil how exactly? Once it has this heat that it has "taken away" what does it do with it?

You seem to be saying that any oil is better that insufficient oil, or oil that has been broken down. This does not demonstrate any ability of the synthetic oil to "cool better". It demonstrates that in a harsh environment the synthetic will survive better.

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