Oil colour. What do you think?

[MR2 Rich]

I took a picture of the oil that came out my 2 today because it looks very dark to me, considering its only 3k miles old. I've got some cheap oil that I'm going to flush it with but does this look ok to everyone?

[4ndee]

looks like......oil the oil picks up all the carbon is the engine etc so it gets dirty. I bet if you touch it then its goldy on your finger

[MR2 Rich]

I think I over think oil related things

I was a bit daft when I changed it last time because I had a few jobs to do I didn't warm the car up before I dropped the oil, which was stupid of me. Took it for a good drive to warm up before I dropped the oil today so should have helped a lot. Going to give it a few runs and drain it again and put some decent oil in.

[4ndee]

you can never change it too much, especially on a turbo its quite important

[MR2 Rich]

Definitely mate, I change my vans oil 4 times more than the manufacturers states due to the huge amount of cam chains (that are lubricated by engine oil) being destroyed by the paper oil filter disintegrating and blocking the feed to the cam chain.

The oil was a tenner and a genuine Toyota oil filter was 8 quid so can't go wrong, I will probably put the Fuch 5w40 fully synthetic when I drop it next, due to using that for the past year and the car hasn't being using any oil so must be ok.

[4ndee]

do you have a vw by any chance?

[MR2 Rich]

No mate Vaux Combo with the 1.3cdti Fiat engine. It's had a lot of problems tbh would get a transit next time because transporters are too expensive and a Vivaro tried to kill me by setting itself on fire and locking me inside!

[Loque]

That's fine. My N/A survives 8-9k between oil services quite happily.

[4ndee]

ooooooo that engines awfull lol, quick but awfull. Transits are good but NEVER jump start it

[MR2 Rich]

ooooooo that engines awfull lol, quick but awfull. Transits are good but NEVER jump start it

Yes I know too well mate, why never jump start a transit then?

[4ndee]

its gear driven and it smashes all the gears, i said jump i ment BUMP

[MR2 Rich]

I'll remember that

[MR2 Rich]

ooooooo that engines awfull lol, quick but awfull. Transits are good but NEVER jump start it

My engine has been ok (touch wood) it's just everything else they have bolted on to it. The turbo waste gate keeps getting stuck, map sensor has gone twice, alternator has been changed, starter motor (bolt through gearbox what a great idea that was). I've done all the service items due to age of components but to be fair to it, it has always started on a morning

[Peter Gidden]

Use a branded, quality fully synthetic oil, and it will do 12 months between changes.

[MR2 Rich]

I'm going for this one as recommended by opie oils and my car has seemed happy with it since I put it in last time

http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-984-fuchs-t ... e-oil.aspx

Have you managed to get a price for those bits?