Ok folks. My car is a '16 plate 1.0 litre 95HP (70KW) CHZB Ibiza ST and, on the whole, I'm very pleased with it.
It did have a problem with it's turbo due to the wastegate actuation rod seizing up. I've found this is a not unknown problem and a modified linkage is now used. Unfortunately (for SEAT) the old arm had siezed so tightly to the wastegate lever that it could not be removed so I "won" a completely new turbo with the uprated linkage! All under warranty so thank you SEAT!
The only other problem I have is a very small noise from the front suspension (it goes "pockle, pockle" when traversing speed bumps) it can't be reproduced with the car standing still and neither I nor the dealer can find it. I've found I can reproduce it by dropping the car with my trolley jack so it's a work in progress.
Anyway, the car is now out of warranty so, being retired from a life in and around the motor trade, I'm going to undertake service and maintenance myself (with the aid of my VCDS of course). So then the question of oil arises. My last vehicle was a '99 Cordoba Vario 1.9 tdi which I had for around 19 years the oil choice was a Quantum oil recommended to me by TPS and bought from them. TPS now don't seem to be interested in the ordinary punter any more so I don't have that option. Anyway this new, small, quite highly stressed, turboed engine is a very different "kettle of fish". I chose to go with the standard time/mileage based service intervals as I don't believe in extended interval for many reasons. The garage tell me the oil used for standard interval servicing is a 5W-40 Castrol supplied to them in bulk. The service reception didn't have any more in depth info but looking at Castrol's spec on 5w-40 oils they are fairly basic.
I've spent several weeks, on and off, making a nuisance of myself asking many questions of Castrol, Fuchs (a favorite of mine), Opie oils, Power enhancer and others. I've also been researching modern oils and calling up spec sheet PDF's etc. I have to say I find it very difficult to make this choice, things are so complicated now. Used to be so simple when all you were presented with was a 20w-50 and the big decision was should it be Duckhams Q20/50 or Castrol GTX! Anyway after a great deal of research and taking advice from "people who know" I've decided on Fuchs Race Pro C3 5w-30. This is a "proper" Ester/PAO oil which should offer best possible performance and protection.
Anyone on here who knows about oils and would like to advise me further?
It did have a problem with it's turbo due to the wastegate actuation rod seizing up. I've found this is a not unknown problem and a modified linkage is now used. Unfortunately (for SEAT) the old arm had siezed so tightly to the wastegate lever that it could not be removed so I "won" a completely new turbo with the uprated linkage! All under warranty so thank you SEAT!
The only other problem I have is a very small noise from the front suspension (it goes "pockle, pockle" when traversing speed bumps) it can't be reproduced with the car standing still and neither I nor the dealer can find it. I've found I can reproduce it by dropping the car with my trolley jack so it's a work in progress.
Anyway, the car is now out of warranty so, being retired from a life in and around the motor trade, I'm going to undertake service and maintenance myself (with the aid of my VCDS of course). So then the question of oil arises. My last vehicle was a '99 Cordoba Vario 1.9 tdi which I had for around 19 years the oil choice was a Quantum oil recommended to me by TPS and bought from them. TPS now don't seem to be interested in the ordinary punter any more so I don't have that option. Anyway this new, small, quite highly stressed, turboed engine is a very different "kettle of fish". I chose to go with the standard time/mileage based service intervals as I don't believe in extended interval for many reasons. The garage tell me the oil used for standard interval servicing is a 5W-40 Castrol supplied to them in bulk. The service reception didn't have any more in depth info but looking at Castrol's spec on 5w-40 oils they are fairly basic.
I've spent several weeks, on and off, making a nuisance of myself asking many questions of Castrol, Fuchs (a favorite of mine), Opie oils, Power enhancer and others. I've also been researching modern oils and calling up spec sheet PDF's etc. I have to say I find it very difficult to make this choice, things are so complicated now. Used to be so simple when all you were presented with was a 20w-50 and the big decision was should it be Duckhams Q20/50 or Castrol GTX! Anyway after a great deal of research and taking advice from "people who know" I've decided on Fuchs Race Pro C3 5w-30. This is a "proper" Ester/PAO oil which should offer best possible performance and protection.
Anyone on here who knows about oils and would like to advise me further?
