Changing from Longlife to Fixed servicing

[Clach]

Hi Guys,

My car is coming up for 60K and I intend to change my service schedule in an effort to preserve the older parts of the car. (Regular oil changes benefiting the turbo etc)The only thing I am worried about is changing the type of Oil i use from longlife to regular. As long as I stay with synthetic I am hoping their will be no problems with the seals leaking etc...?

Any thoughts? Any other problems?

Cheers,

Craig

 

[S3 Jock]

On petrol engines, switching from longlife to 'standard' synthetic oil will not pose a problem. U can always stick to a 5/30 from castrol or mobil.


The same is not tru for diesel engines, where the longlife oil has a compound that protects the injector seals; standard diesel oil will cause them to perish.

 

[Clach]

Cheers for the info. jock

 

[S3 Rav]

clach are u going to run semi synthetic oil or fully?

 

[Clach]

Fully synthetic, as I thought all longlife oil was synthetic

 

[jcs356]

Wise move. Variable servicing is just a way to artificially reduce servicing costs for fleet buyers who don't care about the long term future of the car.

 

[fingermouse]

I leave mine on variable service but do the oil every 6k.

 

[S3ren]

it can't be good for the engine not to have fresh oil and filter for nearly 20k. mines on this longlife service thing but i checked the oil today and its dark as f**k so i'm guna give a oil change 2mrw but like fingermouse said leave on the longlife service.