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[azpaquin]

Originally Posted by Muttley

Sorry I thought you mentioned the words Range Rover and fully synthetic oils in the same sentance there matey..... .............ahhh You did.............oooerrrr.


My experience with synthetic oil (read ultra thin) and landys is that the nice expensive synthetic stuff ends up all over your drive as it invarably pours out of every orifice on the motor................

Stick to the standard reccomended oils, they don't leak out half as fast I've found.



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azpaquin, sorry mate didn't realise that you had been flamed, lampooned elsewhere, I am not trying to be offensive and rubbish your suggestion, if your mechanicals are in top notch condition with good gaskets & seals all round then there will not be an issue with leaks. Call it the Scottish sense of humor.

I have never had a landy that didn't leak oil so the toughts of adding something even thinner filled me with dread, I had a friend who went with fully synthetic everything and ended up nearly getting divorced about the state of his drive when his wife saw it! .............weirdly enough the chassis of his Disco stopped rotting almost overnight as well.......... ......could be coincidental of course......

Stick to the reccomended, yeah? Please no. Every grade I got was thicker from the engine to the diffs to the tranny. I only run 20/50 on the engine. No probs on my seals at all. It does not leak that bad at all .. no more than my old Renault Le Merd Car used to.

I got a little flamed on the other site for launching into the issues with the cooling design and since then I have been paying for my comments dearly.