Engine Oil Flush
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Anyone do this or stay clear of doing it ?Ive never done in years of motoring
From an oil company:-
There is no need to flush the engine and flushing can be harmful. What can happen is the flush can loosen harmless deposits in the engine, but then not remove them. Your new oil goes in and after it gets warm and is flowing nicely, the bits which are loosened come off into the oil, so you end up with hard bits floating around in your oil - the last thing you want. If you really want to flush the oil system, the best thing you can do is drain out the oil that is in there, put in some cheap (the cheapest you can find) mineral oil and run the car for 15 minutes to an hour so the oil gets nice and warm. After running it, drain out the mineral oil and put in the correct oil.
offitmassive
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this is a very marmite topic... think its even come up a few times on SCN.
a friend of mine has owned turbo motors for years (integra typre r turbo'd, nova turbo and now has a skyline twin turbo) and he agrees in part about flushing engines.
he says doing it all the time is harmful, but once in a blue moon is fine. he flushed his skyline after it landed in the UK.
i had mine flushed, because it hadnt been changed for a while and i went with thicker oil. since then i have had no issues at all with flushing.
each to their own i spose!
a friend of mine has owned turbo motors for years (integra typre r turbo'd, nova turbo and now has a skyline twin turbo) and he agrees in part about flushing engines.
he says doing it all the time is harmful, but once in a blue moon is fine. he flushed his skyline after it landed in the UK.
i had mine flushed, because it hadnt been changed for a while and i went with thicker oil. since then i have had no issues at all with flushing.
each to their own i spose!
I have had my 1.8T for a year now always with the sticking lifter noise ![[:@]](/forums/styles/seatcupra/oldforumsmileys/furious.gif "Furious [:@]")
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I've had a can of Wynn's engine flush on my shelf which I bought early on but then read all the horror stories.
A year later, I am thinking I will give it a go but do a proper job with some cheap mineral oil after the flush as described above - then go to the 0w30 fully synthetic stuff.
I don't think the car has ever been flushed and not planning on doing it ever again - just stick to fully synthetic oil to prevent any future problems.
. I've had a can of Wynn's engine flush on my shelf which I bought early on but then read all the horror stories.
A year later, I am thinking I will give it a go but do a proper job with some cheap mineral oil after the flush as described above - then go to the 0w30 fully synthetic stuff.
I don't think the car has ever been flushed and not planning on doing it ever again - just stick to fully synthetic oil to prevent any future problems.
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