Thread: Good Value Oil for TD5 Owners

Originally Posted by rick130

I haven't done any oil tests for the 18 months I've been using it and I really should. I have a fresh 20l drum in the shed, the Patrol's due again, guess what I'll be doing later today.......

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

12 months on and ????

c'mon Rick!

we are all sitting on the edge of our seats here--

Originally Posted by rick130

He's getting a little slow in his dotage.

Maybe I need to drag him along to one of my yoga classes to get some life back into the old bloke ?
See if we can peg back those missing years

yes yes, but what about the OIL??

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

yes yes, but what about the OIL??

Oil ?

I just drain the old stuff out, put the drain plug back in, remove the old filter, fill the new filter, screw it on and re-fill the engine with fresh stuff.

I agree a diesel engine should have an oil designed for a diesel engine, I have used a CI-4 spec oil in our 300TDI since we bought it 10 years ago and have never had any problems. When we bought the TD5 i had a good look at which oils were recomended for the engine. Being a heavy commercial vehicle mechanic i find it hard to understand how people would use a petrol engine spec oil in their diesels as they have little or no detergents in them. I use the Penrite HPR5 diesel in the TD5 (would only use valvoline around the bottom of a fence post). The spinner on the TD5 is the best thing they could have put on the engine,they do an awesome job.Will be changing the oil at 10000km intervals.

Just some factoid to this oil thread - Toyota Australia is endorsing the Havoline Fully Synthetic C3 SAE 5W-30 oil for the 4.5 litre twin turbo diesel V8 in the 200 Series Land Cruiser.

The 200 Series Cruiser does not come fitted with a Diesel Particulate Filter but it does have catalytic converters, so that's just like the latter TD5 engines.

My Oil dealer won't deal with Penrite anymore. He's been selling me Hi-Tec Fleetmaster Extreme 15W-40. A 20 Liter drum is $103.75.
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Originally Posted by tempestv8

Just some factoid to this oil thread - Toyota Australia is endorsing the Havoline Fully Synthetic C3 SAE 5W-30 oil for the 4.5 litre twin turbo diesel V8 in the 200 Series Land Cruiser.

The 200 Series Cruiser does not come fitted with a Diesel Particulate Filter but it does have catalytic converters, so that's just like the latter TD5 engines.

I think the oil requirements for the TD5 centre more so around the higher lubrication demands of the unit injectors.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

I think the oil requirements for the TD5 centre more so around the higher lubrication demands of the unit injectors.

Yep, I'm guessing they place very high loads on the injector cam lobes, so you want a very robust oil with a good EP package as some TD5's have had lobe problems running passenger car synthetic oils.

I use a full synthetic oil made by Fuchs/Petronas for Iveco called Urania FE. 5-30 $68 per 5lt $265 per 20lt
Iveco use a unit injector setup on their 8,10 and 13ltr Cursor engines.
If you can get 80,000km per oil change in a euro3 engine and 150,000 in a euro5 engine with 20,000km oil samples. 10,000km in my Td5 should be a walk in the park.
I remember my dad told me 30 years ago " oil and filters are cheap compared to an engine"
cheers
R2
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