200 Cruiser V8 Diesel "OIL TYPE VS WARRANTY"

My Toyota dealer sold me oil which is generic and has "For petrol and Diesel motors" on the label. At the price they charge it should be synthetic.

I now use Penrite HPR diesel 15 and havent had any troubles in over three years.
100ser has done 140,000 and has never needed a topup between services.

Suggest you check out what Penrite recommend for a 200.

Autobarn have a 20% off sale at the moment including oils.

Penrite for sure.

i had a daewoo Lanos for 10 years, broke the timing belt at 176000 and bent 6 out of 8 valves. I only runit on penrite, did try a mineral oil and paid for it by noisey lifters. after that one episode, i went back to penrite nad have stayed ever since. I had the head rebuilt after timing belt break and the bores where like brand new, no lip no smoke, and the thing flew. i hammered the crap out of it nearly all the time.

Method to madness, good oil good filter= cheap insurance.

told to me by four mechanics with a combined experience of 120 years.

don't think you can blame a broken timing belt on the oil...could have more to do with hammering the crap out of it and exceeding belt replacement interval? ;)

Yeah expensive lesson
700 dollars and i did most of the work

If you check Penrite they recommend HPR Diesel 5 for the V8 and that is what I use. They also do an oil Syn 5 that can be used in Diffs and Transmission.