Oil Question

if you know about other oils such as diesel and petrol, it's damn annoying when you go to buy oil especially for your engine, the front of the package says ""diesel oil" or whatever so you read the back and at the bottom it always says "can also be used in petrol engines, small large, turbo, non turbo, lpg" the lot, its a blanket statment covering every car. I would preferr one oil for one engine type.

Most engine oils are made for either petrol or diesel. but you can use diesel oils in petrol and vice versa, but only in some cars and 4 x 4s. It's mainly for farmers and others who don't want 14 diffrent engine oils sitting around, they can use the one oil for all engines. But you have to be careful these days because some new diesels now require fully synthetic petrol engine oil when others still use diesel oils. best thing to do is check with oil companies or the dealer whats the best to use for you own car.

hope this helps a bit.

thanks, probably best to check with manufacturer as the guy selling it at autobahn or wherever always reccommends the oil you are holding at the time!

The major oil companies have technical advice phone numbers. The staff on these numbers are knowledgeable and unless you are a chemical engineer should be able to answer most questions you fire at them. I have used both the BP and the Caltex advice lines and found them to be helpful.

Your right Lpg is hotter but i don't think the oil comanies worry about making a diffrent blend just for LPG.

i think the lpg oil would have a aditive to protec the valve seats,in the 69 bony i use flash lube with unleaded petrol.
cheers toohey.