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Graham Bowers - 26 Nov 2007 20:50 GMT

Not mine I hasten to add, but how much if any engine oil should a 36K
mile td5 in a disco drink please?
Pal with new (to him) one checked oil after 3K miles and found it on the
lower limit. Of course he has no idea how much was in it when he got it.
Cheers
Graham

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Dave Liquorice - 26 Nov 2007 21:24 GMT

> Not mine I hasten to add, but how much if any engine oil should a 36K
> mile td5 in a disco drink please?

My DII TD5 with 80,000 miles doesn't use any oil. Well perhaps I ought to
qualify that, I don't put any more in between the 12,000 mile services, I
very occasionally check it but have never found it being anywhere near
lacking oil. Maybe I'll check it tomorrow, 8,000 miles since the last
service.

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EMB - 27 Nov 2007 01:10 GMT

> My DII TD5 with 80,000 miles doesn't use any oil. Well perhaps I ought to
> qualify that, I don't put any more in between the 12,000 mile services, I
> very occasionally check it but have never found it being anywhere near
> lacking oil. Maybe I'll check it tomorrow, 8,000 miles since the last
> service.

I'd be changing the oil every 6000 miles - oil is cheap in comparison to
engine wear.

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Dave Liquorice - 27 Nov 2007 21:12 GMT

> I'd be changing the oil every 6000 miles - oil is cheap in comparison to
> engine wear.

Well with modern oils in modern engines and the TD5's centrifugal filter
and paper jobbie. I'm happy with the manufactures 12,000 mile service
interval.(*)

I checked the oil today, it is above the "low" notch but the car is not
level and the dipstick side is slightly up... So at a rough guesstimate it
has probably used half the oil from "full" to "low" in 8,000 miles but as
I don't know where it started that really is a guesstimate. And I don't
know how much oil is required to go from "low" to "full" on the dipstick,
it could be a pint, it could be a gallon....

(*) I know people who buy a cars, second hand and old, and just put fuel
in. They never service it, these cars run for many years doing reasonable
mileages a year.

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Rich B - 26 Nov 2007 21:51 GMT

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Graham Bowers typed:

> Not mine I hasten to add, but how much if any engine oil should a 36K
> mile td5 in a disco drink please?
> Pal with new (to him) one checked oil after 3K miles and found it on
> the lower limit. Of course he has no idea how much was in it when he
> got it. Cheers
> Graham

If he doesn't know how much he started with, this is really a non-question.
It could be using almost nothing, for all he knows. (If it's gone from
'full' to 'fill' in 36K miles, I'd say there was nothing to worry about.)
Top it up and check it weekly, is the only sensible answer.

FWIW, mine used about half a litre between services (6000 miles).

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Nige - 27 Nov 2007 12:34 GMT

> Not mine I hasten to add, but how much if any engine oil should a 36K
> mile td5 in a disco drink please?
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Cheers
> Graham

hehehe - top it up & check it once a week.

My td5 used no oil at all.

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Graham Bowers - 28 Nov 2007 06:19 GMT

> hehehe - top it up & check it once a week.
>
> My td5 used no oil at all.

Thanks Nige and all
Graham

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