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Chris Bottomley
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Can anyone help me on this one please?
Having been told that my MB 270CDI came new in October 2001 with an engine full of Mobil One I anticipated the need to top up the oil during the initial couple of thousand miles and bought 4 litres. Sure enough it needed one litre, but has needed none since. The mileage now shows 55,000. so one up for MB. I'm alot less confident that I was correctly informed in the first place but there we are, I will never know.
I now have 3 litres of (expensive) oil which has been retained in decent conditions for over 4 years, albeit in an unsealed container.
Is this still usable? With normal oil I would not risk it, but it seems to me that with fully synthetic the situation may be different?
Please indicate confidence level with any advice given, since I intend keeping this car!!
Thanks in anticipation.
Having been told that my MB 270CDI came new in October 2001 with an engine full of Mobil One I anticipated the need to top up the oil during the initial couple of thousand miles and bought 4 litres. Sure enough it needed one litre, but has needed none since. The mileage now shows 55,000. so one up for MB. I'm alot less confident that I was correctly informed in the first place but there we are, I will never know.
I now have 3 litres of (expensive) oil which has been retained in decent conditions for over 4 years, albeit in an unsealed container.
Is this still usable? With normal oil I would not risk it, but it seems to me that with fully synthetic the situation may be different?
Please indicate confidence level with any advice given, since I intend keeping this car!!
Thanks in anticipation.