new fluids

[Guest]

well, we finally did our first fluids change in the new b4 last night before going down to meet the folks at macca's last night, what a difference. we replaced the crappy repco filter with a good AMSOIL one and did an AMSOIL engine flush and put in some really good fluid, we immediatly notice a change, it idled better and smoother and the gear box shifts like melted butter, we were both quite pleasently suprised, we expected a difference but not one quite so dramatic.

can wait to get it on the open road tonight for the trip to New Plymouth. ;D ;D ;D

[Guest boostcut]

are you the amsoil sales person by chance?

your "the gearbox shifts like melted butter" line definately made me keen....... sales person of the year!

[newsuba]

That's the sort of improvement to be expected by any new-for-old fluid change.

Did you change the transmission fluid too ?

[Guest]

lol ya know as I was writing this I thought it sounded a lot like that, but I am not, we just love the stuff but the change was so dramatic I had to say so here, we were quite blown away. the clutch was done just not too long ago but we still felt an improvement, but the engine idle and smoothness now was quite amazing after the flush and new oil.

there are SO many different feelings about what to use and what not to use, we could talk about it from not till the sun goes supernova, and I respect other opinions and feeling, I was just passing on ours

we can get the stuff for sure, I think at a 40% discount which we can pass on (we dont make a penny, and it get shipped right to you, or even maybe you can even call the guy and say we sent you and he will offer the samething to you), we buy a lot of the stuff, we have 5 cars so the real AMSOIL sales guy loves us lol

this is our last shipment of 6 boxes lol lol

its not cheap but if you love your baby and I do, I only feed him the best IHMO

having said that all you need to do is google AMSOIL test results and you can see for your self

[Guest]

 newsuba said:

That's the sort of improvement to be expected by any new-for-old fluid change.

Did you change the transmission fluid too ?

thats very true, we did not expect it to be do dramatic, maybe the fluid that was in there was so bad......

yes we did, we did not do the rear diff, will do that change and a coolent flush and coolent booster next weekend, we just ran out if time

[Munkvy]

 DrDarkMatter']

[quote name='newsuba said:

That's the sort of improvement to be expected by any new-for-old fluid change.

Did you change the transmission fluid too ?

/quote]

thats very true, we did not expect it to be do dramatic, maybe the fluid that was in there was so bad......

yes we did, we did not do the rear diff, will do that change and a coolent flush and coolent booster next weekend, we just ran out if time

You really make it sound like the fluid that was already in the car was in a pretty bad state... I would make sure everything else in the car is in good nick to be safe. That and be glad it didn't run a bearing on you! Its amazing how often people thrash their new car on old oil and kill it

[Hailz]

Holey crappa is that 20/50 oil I see you using? Maaate thats for lawn mowers lol

[kingersman]

hmmm if i still have my car at the time it needs its next oil change might give it a go with this stuff

[Guest]

Nah 20 50 is for our old mr2 with high mileage lol

subaru takes 5w 30 and 75w90 for transmission

before change engine oil we put amsoil flush, it took all gunk. Out. Car been serviced 2 months ago with crap