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The Book (Red) arrived
« on: 22 January 2007, 12:35:45 »
The new Red The Book with TC prices in has just arrived (only about 2 weeks late!).  I see oil and coolant has gone up though :(, which is a shame as the Rover will need a lot of flushing :(
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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #1 on: 22 January 2007, 12:37:56 »
bit of a bummer, how much has it gone up?
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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #2 on: 22 January 2007, 12:41:15 »
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bit of a bummer, how much has it gone up?
About 70p for 5l of oil, only about 30p for coolant.

With the 4 for 3 offer on oil, that makes it just over £30 inc VAT for 4 x 5l of semi....
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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #3 on: 22 January 2007, 12:53:34 »
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bit of a bummer, how much has it gone up?
About 70p for 5l of oil, only about 30p for coolant.

With the 4 for 3 offer on oil, that makes it just over £30 inc VAT for 4 x 5l of semi....

Not too bad then, i am going to need more soon to flush the old stuff out of the Senator.
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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #4 on: 22 January 2007, 13:20:28 »
It is a mixture of swings and roundabouts. (I have had my new one about 10 days now).

The coolant is still very well priced, I paid £8.50 for 5 litres of the red stuff on Saturday.

Elsewhere prices of some bits have come down....

All in, the prices are very appealing still. :)
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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #5 on: 22 January 2007, 13:45:47 »
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It is a mixture of swings and roundabouts. (I have had my new one about 10 days now).

The coolant is still very well priced, I paid £8.50 for 5 litres of the red stuff on Saturday.

Elsewhere prices of some bits have come down....

All in, the prices are very appealing still. :)
The oil in particular seems to be going up regularly - if I were a cynic, I would say this was to pay for the 4 for 3 offer, which looks like it will be permenent now...

I agree, TC very worthwhile :y

I just checked oil and coolant, as that is what I need for the Rover....
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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #6 on: 22 January 2007, 13:46:48 »
Got mine today ....had a quick scan, it all seems to have gone up  :(

Fancy adding 1p to price of an oil filter (2.0/2.2) , outrageous  ;D
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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #7 on: 22 January 2007, 13:47:52 »
Mine didn't come through yet... :(

I get my oil from Costco, around £21 for 4L of the finest Mobil-1  :)

Mind you, it's £13 per 1L retail at Esso petrol stations...

But for thr Rover, if you intend to flush the engine using several quick oil changes, then Mobil-1 is a rather flamboyant way of doing it...  ;D

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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #8 on: 22 January 2007, 13:57:51 »
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Got mine today ....had a quick scan, it all seems to have gone up  :(

Fancy adding 1p to price of an oil filter (2.0/2.2) , outrageous  ;D
I noticed that :(

Still, I often don't get my filters on TC, I often get them on special offers in packs of 20 (cheaper than TC).  I use a few, as does one of my brothers on his 2 Astras.  Excess goes on ebay.
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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #9 on: 22 January 2007, 13:58:34 »
Mine came on Saturday, which must mean my application for a TC has been approved Yipee!! :)
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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #10 on: 22 January 2007, 13:58:43 »
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Mine didn't come through yet... :(

I get my oil from Costco, around £21 for 4L of the finest Mobil-1  :)

Mind you, it's £13 per 1L retail at Esso petrol stations...

But for thr Rover, if you intend to flush the engine using several quick oil changes, then Mobil-1 is a rather flamboyant way of doing it...  ;D

Vx semi goes in everything here - The MV6, the Rover, the Kawasaki, even the Honda lawnmower....
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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #11 on: 22 January 2007, 14:03:55 »
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Mine didn't come through yet... :(

I get my oil from Costco, around £21 for 4L of the finest Mobil-1  :)

Mind you, it's £13 per 1L retail at Esso petrol stations...

But for thr Rover, if you intend to flush the engine using several quick oil changes, then Mobil-1 is a rather flamboyant way of doing it...  ;D

Vx semi goes in everything here - The MV6, the Rover, the Kawasaki, even the Honda lawnmower....


Us Londoners we like the trendy stuff, the Armani and Vercase of the oil world  ;D




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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #12 on: 22 January 2007, 14:09:43 »
Wow, that oil is uber cheap! Think I'll be asking one of the locals to get me some on the next meet. When I had the Subaru I used to pay ~£35 for 4 litres of Castrol Formula RS, plus another £13 for 1 litre... robbing gits, it always amazed me that the more expensive the oil the less you get in a bottle. Are there any cars on the planet that take 4L or less of oil during a change?!? Joys of owning a hard-driven turbocharged car :(

BTW How much is fully synth on TC, and what viscosity? Does anyone know who makes it?

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Vx semi goes in everything here - The MV6, the Rover, the Kawasaki, even the Honda lawnmower....

I was always advised against using car oil in the bike, due to the friction modifiers possibly affecting the bite of the wet clutch. Is it bull? I was a little sceptical, but seeing as fully synth bike oil is no more expensive than the car equivalent (and you need less) I just stuck with bike stuff.
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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #13 on: 22 January 2007, 14:22:36 »
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...BTW How much is fully synth on TC, and what viscosity? Does anyone know who makes it?...

I did not yet get my new Red Book and the TC website is not updated yet so I don't have pricing...

But I can say that Vx semi-synth is 10W-40, full-synt used to be 5W-40 but is now 5W-30. No idea who makes it and I don't think anyone here actually knows  :o

Halfords full-synth is Esso Ultron according to Honest John, and so it should be very good - as Esso make Mobile-1 as well... hmmm... oil thread....  :)











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Re: The Book (Red) arrived
« Reply #14 on: 22 January 2007, 14:37:38 »
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Wow, that oil is uber cheap! Think I'll be asking one of the locals to get me some on the next meet. When I had the Subaru I used to pay ~£35 for 4 litres of Castrol Formula RS, plus another £13 for 1 litre... robbing gits, it always amazed me that the more expensive the oil the less you get in a bottle. Are there any cars on the planet that take 4L or less of oil during a change?!? Joys of owning a hard-driven turbocharged car :(

BTW How much is fully synth on TC, and what viscosity? Does anyone know who makes it?

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Vx semi goes in everything here - The MV6, the Rover, the Kawasaki, even the Honda lawnmower....

I was always advised against using car oil in the bike, due to the friction modifiers possibly affecting the bite of the wet clutch. Is it bull? I was a little sceptical, but seeing as fully synth bike oil is no more expensive than the car equivalent (and you need less) I just stuck with bike stuff.

Think fully synth is normally around twice the price? always got semi from Vaux.

I bought a load of oil for the Senator a few weeks ago, paid £8.50 odd ish + Vat for 5L of GM Semi Synth, wondered over to halfrauds for that socket set that was on offer.... I almost fell over at the prices of oil in there. £46 for 5L GTX Magnetic, I know its fully synth but that price is obscene!  >:(

Cheapest stuff was halfrauds own brand at £11 for 5L

I could change the oil, on both our 2.2's Omega's and the Senator for less than 1 bottle of the above. Along with all the oil filters!
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