Which Oil ?

[Pie Warrior]

Any preference from the 5 listed below,  I have used the Shell Helix in the past.

 

Car only likely to be used on road and do less than 3000 miles a year.......It is a std. S1 elise  118 bhp

 

 

Fuchs TITAN SUPERSYN 5W-40 High Performance, Fully Synthetic Engine Oil - Service Pack: 5 litres

Discounted Price

£30.95 inc VAT

£25.79 ex VAT

 

Shell Helix Ultra 5W-40 Fully Synthetic Engine Oil - Recommended by Ferrari - Service Pack: 5 litres

Discounted Price

£30.95 inc VAT

£25.79 ex VAT

 

Millers Oils XF LONGLIFE 5w-40 Full Synthetic Engine Oil - Service Pack: 5 litres

Discounted Price

£31.03 inc VAT

£25.86 ex VAT

 

Motul 8100 X-cess 5W-40 Petrol and Diesel fully synthetic engine oil - Service Pack: 5 litres

Special Price

£31.98 inc VAT

£26.65 ex VAT

 

Mobil Super 3000 X1 5W-40 Engine Oil (formerly Mobil Synt S 5W-40) - Service Pack: 5 litres

Discounted Price

£32.95 inc VAT

£27.46 ex VAT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[DeanB]

Opie recommended to me an ester based synthetic. This is the best stuff apparently, so I went with Gulf Race oil. It's on offer at the moment, have you seen the separate thread?

Mine is a standard 120 bhp s2 k series btw.

[Pie Warrior]

Cheers Dean,

 

need to order spare oil for the work vehicles so a few extra 5 lt drums will be added for the Loti

[Steve J]

You have a standard S1. Any 5-40 will be fine.

However I guess you want to spend some money

[Pie Warrior]

well it won't be my money....lol

[DeanB]

My Elise book says Lotus engineers wanted to fit oil coolers to standard elises because oil cooling was marginal. If that's right then it might be worth getting the best oil you can. An extra tenner or so every year seems worth it to me, especially as my car has done 103000 miles.

If it ain't your money it's a no brainer surely.

[Pie Warrior]

yep, can't do any harm giving Loti some amber nectar if someone else is footing the bill

[cjwjames]

My Elise book says Lotus engineers wanted to fit oil coolers to standard elises because oil cooling was marginal. If that's right then it might be worth getting the best oil you can. An extra tenner or so every year seems worth it to me, especially as my car has done 103000 miles.

If it ain't your money it's a no brainer surely.

Steve j

Always go for the best you can afford at the time don't look at cheapest so if you can get the best go get it please don't own a Lotus and go cheap

[Eric]

I've used Silkolene Pro S 5-40 (now Fuchs Titan) in all my supercharged Lotuses and it really is brilliant stuff.  Very good HTHS which (as the letters suggest) provides the very best protection at high temperatures.

[Steve J]

There's nothing wrong with standard synthetic oil for a k series. It's a shopping trolly engine.

If you are tracking then I'd agree Silkolene / Fuchs would be my choice too.

[KurtB]

I use Fuchsin my VHPD so agree with Eric. If it's a standard mill, Steve is 100% spot on.