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Old Jul 19th, 2018, 20:20   #13
nrobinson
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Originally Posted by AndyV7o View Post
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Also what engine, If D5, what year/euro is it? If pre '05, euro 3 dont use A5/B5 in it, it should have A3/B4, if its after 05, euro 4 then A5/B5 is specced, though you can also use A3/B4 too. You may know this, apologues for any egg-sucking tuition if so, but oil mistakes are rife on here with the early D5. If its petrol ignore me!
Hi all thanks for all the advice and interesting to see the continuing debate about the process.

Andy - can i ask about your comments here about the oil spec. Yes the engine is the d5 euro 3.
I was going to use A3/B4 as that seems to be what is specified in the handbook, but interestingly an online oil suppliers lookup for my reg suggested A5/B5 only. I would have assumed that this would have been ok and backward compatible. Is this not the case? Are there problems with this oil in older D5's?

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Nick
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