Hey guys, am looking to change the oil and filter on my VRS and i want to know if it will be ok to use Engine Flush on it too? if so what brands are recomended or do they all do the same job, Also how is the Engine Flush used? is it added to the oil before you drain or when engine is empty? Cheers in advance.

Nah man, dont use it in a PD. No need. Its added when the engine is warm and then you drop the whole lot.

Heard Millers do one but I'd never use one. Might do more harm than good seeing it "thins" the oil

Cheers for the quick reply stopping me before i went out and bought it. does the PD differ vastly between other TDI engines then? ive seen Engine Flush for Diesels so surely it must be fine on some but why not the PD whats different in the PD?

Cheers for the quick reply stopping me before i went out and bought it. does the PD differ vastly between other TDI engines then? ive seen Engine Flush for Diesels so surely it must be fine on some but why not the PD whats different in the PD?

The injectors.

Would you recomend using replacing the current oil with "Cheap" oil for a couple hundred miles then changing it to more expensive fully synthetic or is it perfectly good to just put good stuff straight in after draining old stuff out?

Would you recomend using replacing the current oil with "Cheap" oil for a couple hundred miles then changing it to more expensive fully synthetic or is it perfectly good to just put good stuff straight in after draining old stuff out?

Use the correct oil at all times, and no flushing. It's a modern car, modern engine, and the injectors are over £350 EACH if you break them

Use the correct oil at all times, and no flushing. It's a modern car, modern engine, and the injectors are over £350 EACH if you break them

HOW MUCH???

Jeez, how much were the ones in the skip then?

HOW MUCH???

Jeez, how much were the ones in the skip then?

They were about £800 for the set with uprated nozzles, but they don't buy new ones from a dealer

Excuse me for possibly being a bit thick here, but how does the oil affect the injectors? is the oil passed through the injectors? So you would recomend just doing a straight swap from the old stuff thats in there to the expensive "good" stuff ive bought?

Excuse me for possibly being a bit thick here, but how does the oil affect the injectors? is the oil passed through the injectors? So you would recomend just doing a straight swap from the old stuff thats in there to the expensive "good" stuff ive bought?

You call it expensive, but the proper oil may be a tenner more than the cheap stuff, and will last 10k miles without degrading, whilst the cheap stuff will be shagged in less than half that time.

Save a couple of tenners over the next few years, and risk premature wear on all of your engines important oily bits, or have peace of mind, and a sweet running lump at galactic miles....

The oil ive bought is one of the recomended choices from Opie Oils, As my personal preference i allways want to use the best products etc, i just wasnt sure if the PD engine would need to have the old oil flushed out somehow or if it is completely fine to just put fresh oil and filter in.

The oil ive bought is one of the recomended choices from Opie Oils, As my personal preference i allways want to use the best products etc, i just wasnt sure if the PD engine would need to have the old oil flushed out somehow or if it is completely fine to just put fresh oil and filter in.

As long as your old oil is completely drained it will be fine.

And don't be shocked when you check your oil in a week or so, and it looks black, and you think something is wrong. It goes black after a couple of hundred miles.

Excuse me for possibly being a bit thick here, but how does the oil affect the injectors? is the oil passed through the injectors? So you would recomend just doing a straight swap from the old stuff thats in there to the expensive "good" stuff ive bought?

The injectors which are high pressure units are run off roller rockers that are driven by the camshaft.

The joke is that I have service logs showing engine flush on the bill for my vRS... I did question it and that particular dealer is no longer a Skoda dealer these days.. Double the service cost compared to the one in Oxford, not great.

So say i bought a cheaper oil that is VW 505.1 spec, but say it costs half the price of the stuff i bought from Opie Oils, would it be ok to run that for say 300 miles as a sort of "flush" or does that concept not work as that oil will then be contaminated by whatever bad residue is still remaining? Thus resulting in the next change being in the same predicament. Cheers once again for answering my questions im just trying to get some extra advice on the matter.

I'd just keep it for topping up in emergencies tbh.

It will last for years, and the odd drop shouldn't harm anything, as long as it is the correct spec.

If it meets 505.01 (or better) it should all be fine

There is no need to "flush" the engine.

Just change the oil every 10,000 miles and always use 505.01 spec.

i was in telford skoda in carlisle a little while back. There was a poster on the wall (originating from skoda technical) explaining under NO cicumstances to use any kind of engine flush on the pd engine??!!

some one somwhere must have had a problem with it and therefore SKoda are playing it safe!

chris:)

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