Lidl Car Care Items On Sale Monday 10th Jan - incl 5W-40 Synthetic Oil €5/litre

Esel

Lidl have car care items on Monday 10th Jan. Their synthetic oil is high spec and great value at €5 per litre. I've been using it for a couple of years now with no problems. Last year's thread here. They also have semi-synth 10W40 5 litres for €17, and regular mineral oil 15W40 5 litres for €15.

Specification (on bottle) [Note: Specs from last year's supply]

5W40 ACEA A3/B3, A3/B4, API SM/CF
BMW Longlife-98, MB 229.3, Opel GM-LL-B-025, Porsche, VW-Norm 502 00, 505 00

Specification from manufacturer (again from last year):

PENNASOL SUPER PACE SAE 5W40, made in Germany.

API SM/CF,
ACEA A3/B3, A3/B4,
VW-Norm 502 00, 505 00
Porsche
MB 229.3
BMW Longlife-98
Opel GM–LL–B-025
Renault RN 700, RN 710

Their Car Care page.

They also have other car items on the same day separate link.

Jimmy Garlic

I got a concentrated screenwash there one time that smelled like sweaty old socks. Got bulbs there, they were grand. Dunno about the engine oil, last time they had it it didn't seem to shift in a hurry. I would be wary of buying engine oil in lidl....is it good stuff or what?.

Esel

Have a read of last year's thread.

Seweryn

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

I would be wary of buying engine oil in lidl....is it good stuff or what?.

Why would you be worried? If the oil meets the specification required by your engine, then you can use it. I wouldn't judge oil's quality by the price or brand sticker on the bottle.

langdang

The 50%+ bulbs are well worth the money. Poor man's nightbreakers, couldn't see much of a difference when I replaced one with the other.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Seweryn wrote: »

Why would you be worried? If the oil meets the specification required by your engine, then you can use it. I wouldn't judge oil's quality by the price or brand sticker on the bottle.

You get what you pay for. Sometimes you can pick up a bargain. But engine oil isn't something I would skimp on.
I use very good oil in my car, always have and always will

Seweryn

Bryn wrote: »

You get what you pay for. Sometimes you can pick up a bargain. But engine oil isn't something I would skimp on.
I use very good oil in my car, always have and always will

Same as me. I use higher specification oils than recommended for my car. But I would never ignore a product just because it is cheaper or because it is not manufactured by a company that spend billions on advertisements.

Matt Simis

Bryn wrote: »

You get what you pay for.

Yeah, this!

--
W40 ACEA A3/B3, A3/B4, API SM/CF
BMW Longlife-98, MB 229.3, Opel GM-LL-B-025, Porsche, VW-Norm 502 00, 505 00

Specification from manufacturer (again from last year):
PENNASOL SUPER PACE SAE 5W40, made in Germany.
API SM/CF,
ACEA A3/B3, A3/B4,
VW-Norm 502 00, 505 00
Porsche
MB 229.3
BMW Longlife-98
Opel GM–LL–B-025
Renault RN 700, RN 710
--

I was on the other side of the fence last year, but after trying out the Tesco oil (EUR28 for 4.5litres 5w-40 Fully Synth, not on offer, thats the price) Im kinda converted.


Put it another way, if you buy good Oil at half the price you can change it twice as often as premium price Oil. Thats gotta be better for the car than any mystery additives.

Seweryn

Matt Simis wrote: »

Yeah, this!

--
W40 ACEA A3/B3, A3/B4, API SM/CF
BMW Longlife-98, MB 229.3, Opel GM-LL-B-025, Porsche, VW-Norm 502 00, 505 00

Specification from manufacturer (again from last year):
PENNASOL SUPER PACE SAE 5W40, made in Germany.
API SM/CF,
ACEA A3/B3, A3/B4,
VW-Norm 502 00, 505 00
Porsche
MB 229.3
BMW Longlife-98
Opel GM–LL–B-025
Renault RN 700, RN 710
--

I was on the other side of the fence last year, but after trying out the Tesco oil (EUR28 for 4.5litres 5w-40 Fully Synth, not on offer, thats the price) Im kinda converted.

Exactly... This is high a quality product and you get the same protection and performance as from a lot more expensive engine oil, branded by other top manufacturers. I was also quite suspicious before I used the product...

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Matt Simis wrote: »

Yeah, this!

--
W40 ACEA A3/B3, A3/B4, API SM/CF
BMW Longlife-98, MB 229.3, Opel GM-LL-B-025, Porsche, VW-Norm 502 00, 505 00

Specification from manufacturer (again from last year):
PENNASOL SUPER PACE SAE 5W40, made in Germany.
API SM/CF,
ACEA A3/B3, A3/B4,
VW-Norm 502 00, 505 00
Porsche
MB 229.3
BMW Longlife-98
Opel GM–LL–B-025
Renault RN 700, RN 710
--

I was on the other side of the fence last year, but after trying out the Tesco oil (EUR28 for 4.5litres 5w-40 Fully Synth, not on offer, thats the price) Im kinda converted.


Put it another way, if you buy good Oil at half the price you can change it twice as often as premium price Oil. Thats gotta be better for the car than any mystery additives.

There are always exceptions to the rule, never denied the fact

But for my own peace of mind, and the health of my engine, I would prefer not to chance it. I change my oil every 5-6k miles anyway, so no expense is spared in that regard

lomb

It's good stuff yeah. Had 2 golfs having done 40000 miles on it on fairly extended intervals like 12000 miles driven hard and engines sound like sewing machines still no top end rattle like most Irish cars.

vectra

Would anyone be brave enough to use a litre to top up a new VRS Octavia tdi engine??
Car is on longlife oil at present (30k service interval)

-Corkie-

vectra wrote: »

Would anyone be brave enough to use a litre to top up a new VRS Octavia tdi engine??
Car is on longlife oil at present (30k service interval)

I cant tell you that lad. I change the oil in my passats every 15k and I use longlife oil. 30k until the first service is a bit long for a first service IMO.

sean1141

vectra wrote: »

Would anyone be brave enough to use a litre to top up a new VRS Octavia tdi engine??
Car is on longlife oil at present (30k service interval)

dont do it!! the spec listed above for the vag range is 505 00. this is only suitable for the older diesels that came in the early mk4s. the 90 and 110 bhp tdi engines (not sure what oil the sdi needs). its not suitable for the pd engine and i think the cr needs 507 00 spec oil

Voodoomelon

Just to throw this in too, Halfords have 20% off Castrol EDGE 0w30 and 0w40, I grapped 12 litres.

Seweryn

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Just to throw this in too, Halfords have 20% off Castrol EDGE 0w30 and 0w40, I grapped 12 litres.

How much is the 4L container of 0W40 now? By the way, their branded fully synthetic oil is very good as well.

vectra

-Corkie- wrote: »

I cant tell you that lad. I change the oil in my passats every 15k and I use longlife oil. 30k until the first service is a bit long for a first service IMO.

Not going to leave it to 30k
It will be done at 15k but was wondering about top up

sean1141 wrote: »

dont do it!! the spec listed above for the vag range is 505 00. this is only suitable for the older diesels that came in the early mk4s. the 90 and 110 bhp tdi engines (not sure what oil the sdi needs). its not suitable for the pd engine and i think the cr needs 507 00 spec oil

Thanks for that

Voodoomelon

Seweryn wrote: »

How much is the 4L container of 0W40 now? By the way, their branded fully synthetic oil is very good as well.

0w40 is €36.99 I think for 4 litres. I was going to get it but I have 0w30 in it at the moment so got that instead, that was €43.99.

Seweryn

Voodoomelon wrote: »

0w40 is €36.99 I think for 4 litres.

That is not bad at all actually.

Voodoomelon

I could have been €37.99 either, but yeah good deal absolutely.

Seweryn

Voodoomelon wrote: »

I could have been €37.99 either, but yeah good deal absolutely.

...And if you are an Axa customer, you get further 15% down .

Voodoomelon

Not really worth it when they charge €1000 more for insurance than anyone else. :P

Does anyone know if It's actually fully synthetic or the hydracracked stuff ? It will still meet relevant specs but there is a significant difference. FOr anyone who was dubious last year I don't see how using it has convinced ye unless of course ye have been using it no engines on test beds, which I doubt :pac:

Seweryn

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Not really worth it when they charge €1000 more for insurance than anyone else. :P

In this case - no. But for me they were about €50 dearer, so I don't mind paying that for the benefit of having cheaper oil, as I drive quite a lot and do about 5 oil services per year .

Seweryn

RoverJames wrote: »

Does anyone know if It's actually fully synthetic or the hydracracked stuff ? It will still meet relevant specs but there is a significant difference.

Hard to say, not much reliable info on the net about it, but here is the data sheet for the stuff:
http://www.pennasol.de/pen/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,816/lang,en/

I would suspect that is a group 2 oil, Mobil 1 being group 4 and being genuinely fully synthetic, castrol would be group 3 and also is hydrocracked.

-Corkie-

RoverJames wrote: »

I would suspect that is a group 2 oil, Mobil 1 being group 4 and being genuinely fully synthetic, castrol would be group 3 and also is hydrocracked.

Say that now again. Is Mobil better than Castrol edge???

-Corkie-

-Corkie- wrote: »

Say that now again. Is Mobil better than Castrol edge???

Now now :pac:
I'm in no position to say which is better. Castrol Edge is a group 3 hydrocracked oil branded as fully synthetic. Mobil 1 is a group4 genuinely fully synthetic (made in the lab) oil.

Mobil reckon Castrol shouldn't be allowed to brand their tack as fully synthetic as it actually isn't, the API agreed with Castrol in so far as the base mineral ingredient of their oils has been refined (or whatever the nerd term is) to a degree that it is now non mineral. (was a big court casr years back)

Interestingly in the case of the expensive Castrol oils their profit margins would be more than the folks at Mobil as the hydrocracking lark is less expensive than actually making a genuine fully synthetic, all of this is not passed on to the consumer.

I've used Halfords own brand fully syn myself and it's defo hydrocracked.

My own opinion would be Mobil 1 is the ultimate tack for a decent car nowadays if it meets the manufacturers spec.

Voodoomelon

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Just to throw this in too, Halfords have 20% off Castrol EDGE 0w30 and 0w40, I grapped 12 litres.

They also have their own bulbs reduced, super brilliance range. Got two H7s for the price of 1, so too for €25

-Corkie-

Thats intresting. I always thought Castrol was the dogs bollocks in oil!!. VW even recomend it for there engines. I wouldnt mind its a crazy price.

-Corkie-

-Corkie- wrote: »

Thats intresting. I always thought Castrol was the dogs bollocks in oil!!. VW even recomend it for there engines. I wouldnt mind its a crazy price.

It may well be
It's hydrocracked mineral oil though :pac:

To add - VW eh ...... that's for another thread.

Esel

Car Care stuff incl. oil is back on sale Monday 21st

Jimmy Garlic

Is it better than Lidl sausages?

vectra

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Is it better than Lidl sausages?

It is hard to beat LIDL big sausages .. :pac:

Seweryn

vectra wrote: »

It is hard to beat LIDL big sausages .. :pac:

I actually prefer the little, finger size smoked ones (8 in the pack). Very nice straight from the pack or slightly fried on a pan .

Ush1

Slightly OT but I serviced my mk1 Focus with Halfords own brand semi synth.

This Mobil Super 3000 is now only 2 euro more for 5l:
http://www.halfords.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_11101_catalogId_15551_productId_723401_langId_-1_categoryId_212419

Would it be okay to use this on my next service despite the fact it is fully synth?

Jimmy Garlic

I will throw bones out to the crows and let them make my mind up.

biko

Sound I'll get some.

VolvoMan

Excellent stuff. I hear the wiper blades are half decent so I'm definitely picking up a set.

Ush1

Ush1 wrote: »

Slightly OT but I serviced my mk1 Focus with Halfords own brand semi synth.

This Mobil Super 3000 is now only 2 euro more for 5l:
http://www.halfords.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_11101_catalogId_15551_productId_723401_langId_-1_categoryId_212419

Would it be okay to use this on my next service despite the fact it is fully synth?

Of course.

dr.fuzzenstein

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Is it better than Lidl sausages?

I tried them ,they wrecked the engine.

Esel

Car care items, including synthetic oil in thread title, back next Monday.

Edit: Also snow chains, ultra heavy duty jump leads (41mm2), stereo, phone charger etc.

pudzey101

i dunno id be weary about the engine oil from lidl
My brother got a hydraulic jack outta there last year and the yoke snapped when jacking up a bora ( and no way are they 2 tonne max :P )
But heard the wiper blades, lights and car cleaning products are quite good

thelikelylad

Anyone here have any experience with the Lidl Silvercrest car stereos?

This one coming in Monday seems very reasonable especially considering some of the features it has to offer (bluetooth, usb, sd card etc.) ?

Esel

pudzey101 wrote: »

i dunno id be weary about the engine oil from lidl

Been well discussed here a few times - the synthetic oil is high quality...

cjt156

thelikelylad wrote: »

Anyone here have any experience with the Lidl Silvercrest car stereos?

This one coming in Monday seems very reasonable especially considering some of the features it has to offer (bluetooth, usb, sd card etc.) ?

I've got a previous model - similar features - and find it excellent. Wouldn't suit a serious ICE-head for sound quality but the USB and bluetooth I find to be perfect. Position the external mike carefully for phone call quality. I had to get an antenna adaptor for mine too - fiver in Halfords or so.

Seweryn

Seweryn wrote: »

Hard to say, not much reliable info on the net about it, but here is the data sheet for the stuff:
http://www.pennasol.de/pen/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,816/lang,en/

RoverJames wrote: »

I would suspect that is a group 2 oil, Mobil 1 being group 4 and being genuinely fully synthetic, castrol would be group 3 and also is hydrocracked.

Esel wrote: »

Been well discussed here a few times - the synthetic oil is high quality...

depends what you reckon high quality is really

JJJJNR

Would anyone recommend this fully synth oil?

http://www.pennasol.de/

Compared to the stuff im using at the moment.

http://www.wolfoil.com/update/documenten/engels/tf/passenger_cars/neutraal/24116ne.pdf

Esel

RoverJames wrote: »

depends what you reckon high quality is really

Here we go, again

Extracted from Pennasol specs for their Super Pace 5W-40

....PENNASOL SUPER PACE consists entirely of synthetic base oils....

Outside of the USA, it is illegal, afaik, to describe oil as synthetic if it is not fully so.

Specification:
API SM/CF
ACEA A3/B3, A3/B4
Approved in compliance with / under different label
VW-Norm 502 00, 505 00
Porsche A 40
MB-Freigabe 229.3
BMW Longlife-98
Opel GM–LL–B-025
Level:
Renault RN 700, RN 710

They also give the technical specs on the page I linked above.

Esel

JJJJNR wrote: »

Would anyone recommend this fully synth oil?

http://www.pennasol.de/

Compared to the stuff im using at the moment.

http://www.wolfoil.com/update/documenten/engels/tf/passenger_cars/neutraal/24116ne.pdf

Presuming you mean the Pennasol oil we are talking about here, the technical specs (although not as comprehensive as the Wolf specs) are very similar.

For comparison with my extract from the Pennasol PDF linked above, the Wolf oil you linked gives:

SPECIFICATION LEVEL :
API SM, SL/CF
PORSCHE A40
ACEA A3/B4-08
OPEL GM-LL-B-025
VW 502.00 / 505.00
RENAULT RN 0710/0700
MB 229.3
PSA B71 2296
BMW LL-01

A few differences in the Manufacturer specs between the two...

Is there much of a price difference?

sligojoek

cjt156 wrote: »

I've got a previous model - similar features - and find it excellent. Wouldn't suit a serious ICE-head for sound quality but the USB and bluetooth I find to be perfect. Position the external mike carefully for phone call quality. I had to get an antenna adaptor for mine too - fiver in Halfords or so.

I bought one yesterday. It works a treat. You might need to get an adapter kit for the ISO plugs at the back. €18 -€25 in Halford's, depending on car model.