Hey guys im looking for somewhere that stocks Castrol synstrans for my r380, preferrably eastern suburbs, i dont remember seeing it and wi ll probably do a ring around tomorrow but am incredibly busy at work would be easier if someone could tell me, thanks in advance, also whats the recommended type for the R380?

Ring Castro direct there in Welshpool and will get it for you

Address: 543 Abernethy Rd, Kewdale, WA, 6105
Phone number: (08) 92689288

If not any repco or supercheap will get it in

Or give Alan or Larry a call at Armadale auto parts 9495 1932

Adam

Find your nearest Castrol Depot (often a BP Depot) and I can almost guarantee they will have it and be the cheapest.

Otherwise you should be able to get it at Supercheap, Repco etc but potentially twice the price.

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Hey guys whats the average price? i can get 6 litre bottles for about 25$ a litre? also i can get 20 litre drum for 400 i think, does anyone want/need some oil? i will buy the 20 if others want to buy some oil, or ill buy the 6 litre bottles and use 3, so will have 3 for sale, PM me

That's expensive. You sure they didn't quote you the price of Syntrax? Last time I bought Syntrax it was $19/L from a Castrol distributor. A friend bought Syntrans recently and I'm sure he only paid about $10-12/L.

Syntrax is a synthetic replacement for EPX and is used in the Puma transfer case but can also go in diff's.

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Repco want about $33 a litre.

I'm not sure if you are aware, the R380's recommend oil is Texaco MTF94.

I know for a fact that Southern Landrover stock it, I'm assuming any Landrover dealer will as well.

Yep, most of us are aware of this, but try and get it outside of people with current stocks. Last I heard (Caltex, were no longer supplying it as they are the Texaco distributor). Try anywhere outside of a city and you will just get blank stares. I tried for ages and could not even get the distributor to agree to freight some up. Hence why people are turning to Syntrans, VMX and Pentrite.
Also I believe LR have changed their specs and no longer recommend MTF94, can anyone confirm this??

Fair comment, I forgot some of you live in the boonies.

Add to that - I have been very impressed with syntrans, and I personally would run it even if MTF94 were available.

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