Halfords

[brendy]

The only dipstick in my car is the one driving it ........... I wait till it tells me to feed it with some oil!

As I said earlier, the oil warning light is a drastic measures warning, if you then drive the car using all of the revs often , you risk oil starvation and a dead engine.

 

[thecraw]

Per Brendy 5w30 although 0w30 is recommended if its the E90/E92 model. Halfords own make is decent enough for your purposes. I have a 320cd* and only use Miller XTech 0w30 which is great.

* until next weekenx when I will have an Alfa GT

Hope you've got a reliable taxi service nearby.

 

[G1BB0]

1st thing I did when I bought... in fact no, its was before as I made sure I was well armed before buying, was read forums, I joined the TT owners club one and then the TTOC after purchase. Anything you could ever need to know these sort of folk have been there done it and have the t-shirt.

 

[triple_bogey]

You really need to ring the garage that last serviced the car and see what grade oil they used. Different garages don't always conform to the exact oil grade/viscosity for that particular vehicle.

Lets hope its nothing serious, but as brendy has stated it can lead to a dead engine.

 

[USER1999]

I used to have a rover p5 coupe, and joined the owners club. Turns out they knew zip about the cars, and we're more in to buses.

 

[GreiginFife]

Hope you've got a reliable taxi service nearby.

I know I know. Its my inner youth rebelling. I know they are electrically reliable as sunshine in Scotland but I am going for the diesel which, IIRC is the same Fiat block used in the 1.9 VX range.

 

[GreiginFife]

Lovely motors but deffo join the owner forums... and buy a sparkly new toolkit!

Got a big garage full of kit. Its the diesel version so mechanically should be sound. Electrics.... Well the italians can do styling...

 

[jpenno]

Lovely motors but deffo join the owner forums... and buy a sparkly new toolkit!

I have had two alfas best and worst cars I have ever owned

Fantastic engines and noise when revved hard unreliable electronics and poor driving position in 147 - 146 was fantastic and only got rid of it for company car when changed jobs and company wouldn't do alfa's

 

[Shakey]

Often not useful these days, as manufacturers want you to take it to a stealership. Wife's BMW used to have a big sticker under the bonnet, on a massive plastic cover, saying only remove if you are a trained BMW mechanic. To make it doubly difficult, they used tamper proof screws to hold it down.

The manual for my hearse (Chrysler) does not say what oil it takes, or what the capacity is. That said, in three years of ownership I have only lifted the bonnet once, just to have a look at what was under there!

LOL...superb.

 

[Mungoscorner]

Any semi synthetic brand of 5w30 or 10w40 will be fine to use for topping up,and your local supermarket is probably the easiest and cheapest option,they normally have a pretty good selection.
Adding a fully synthetic oil to a mineral based oil is a big no no.