Thread: Best Engine Oil For Puma

Originally Posted by rick130

Look back in the thread, Edge Professional A5 5W-30 with the relevant Ford spec/licence and it also says recommended by Land Rover on the drum.

thanks Rick,
i am so confused. so what would be the difference between A5 and OE-X???
my 2.2 does not come with DPF so i guess OE-x would be overkill.
but will A5 provide better fuel efficiency?....

Cheers

I just spoke to speed.co.nz who sell Liquimoly. 20L is NZD277+GST, oil bung replacement $10, and filter $32. Excellent to speak to and freighting is no problem. My 08 Puma is sorted for oil changes.... how hard are gearbox and transmission changes (do I have a transmission or is that only autos...LOL?!)

Originally Posted by Tikka7mm08

I just spoke to speed.co.nz who sell Liquimoly. 20L is NZD277+GST, oil bung replacement $10, and filter $32. Excellent to speak to and freighting is no problem. My 08 Puma is sorted for oil changes.... how hard are gearbox and transmission changes (do I have a transmission or is that only autos...LOL?!)

Hi Tikka, you can get Total oil in Christchurch as well and fuchs from BNT in the central city.

Oil for diffs and transfer diffs you buy from castrol diff and transfer oils etc from supercheap when it is 25% off,
Gearbox oil I used Fuchs TITAN SINTOFLUID 75W-80 Premium Manual Transmission Gearbox Fluid which is available from BNT as well, this oil has the FORD M2C200-C/C2/C3 recommendation.
it was about $28.00 plus GST a litre (trade price). Archibalds want $120 per litre for the landrover oil!!!
Also BNT have Redline Redline MT90 75w-90w GL4 oil which is ok for the gearbox as well.
Link to the Redline Oil on this page: Red Line Gear Oil / Redline Oil - Performance Car Parts Tauranga NZ - Best Prices, Quality & Service
Reference to the redline oil from AULRO:

OILS AIN'T OILS - R380

I needed a small pump to transfer the 2.2 litres needed to refill the gearbox ;

http://www.supercheapauto.co.nz/onli...d=284708#Cross

Thanks so much Sashadidi that is super helpful! Not familiar with BNT so will look them up. Printing your post as a goto reference

Originally Posted by Tikka7mm08

I just spoke to speed.co.nz who sell Liquimoly. 20L is NZD277+GST, oil bung replacement $10, and filter $32. Excellent to speak to and freighting is no problem. My 08 Puma is sorted for oil changes.... how hard are gearbox and transmission changes (do I have a transmission or is that only autos...LOL?!)

Defender2 - View topic - Engine, Gearbox & Transfer Box Oil Change

I did it slightly differently.
I removed the inspection plate between the driver and passenger front seats and filled the main gear box and transferbox using a pipe and a funnel. Takes a while owing to the viscosity (or lack of it) of the of the oil.
I used Total Syn Fe 75W-90

Trying to get the right oil for the Puma 2.4 has really ****ed me off for a long time. I confess to being a bit of a fanatic about oil changes and do all of them at about half the recommended rate LR say so when I couldn't get the exact right oil for the engine I got really ****ed off and thought of flogging the damn thing.
I tried all the usual suspects (Supacrap. Reco, Covs) and met with all sorts of responses from "we don't stock it, we don't care" to "oils is oils any thing will do" to a lady from Supacrap who did her best to get the Castrol recommended oil (2 x 20ltr drums though) but when she wasn't there I got shoved to the back of the queue as it wasn't on their list so they'd have to do a manual order and it was a bit too hard!
However, someone posted about Mobil doing an oil (Mobil Super 3000 X1 FE 5W 30) that did it so I contacted Mobil in Welshpool. They only sold that in 208ltr drums but could provide Mobil Super 3000 XE in 20ltr drums which according to one of their engineers, met or exceeded all Ford requirements for the 2.4 engine.
So that's what I've bought and because it's not come from some craphead who just wants to flog me something, anything, as long as they flog something, I'm quite happy with it.
AlanH.

For anyone in Sydney there is a shop in Taren point called One Stop Lube Shop.
I used to buy my 20 litre drums of castrol from him.
He can order in most oils that you can't get from the regular shops.

Well, after following this post (thanks for all the great comments/info) and doing some further reading I've settled on the Total Quartz 9000 Future NFC 5W-30 engine oil. One thing I've learnt is that while there are a lot of oils that state they meet or exceed the requirements of WSS-M2C913-B, there are a lot less that have the OEM approval.

So my check list for selecting this oil was:-
1) OEM approved to WSS-M2C913-C which is backward compatible with WSS-M2C913-B.
2) Availability. The WA distributor is just down the road from me, also found out they supply the local Ford dealership.
3) Cost $40.70 inc GST per 5lt (available in 5lt and 208lt)

So now onto the gearbox/diff/trans oils, more reading, much fun


Dirk.........