Nice one Martin
, Great find, even my tractors are covered on that.
Came across this post on another form and the results on Martin't site appears to recommend 5W 30 fully synthetic for the Renault Master 150 dci
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Base Vehicle Servicing - Engine Oil Specification
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user Uncle Bulgaria
Posted: 22 July 2008 12:52 PM
Subject: Base Vehicle Servicing - Engine Oil Specification
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I just thought I'd flag up the need to check on the oil used when having your base vehicle serviced. Modern diesel engines are now to Euro IV on emissions and increasingly fitted with an exhaust particulate filter to reduce smoke emissions. Having a filter appears to affect the specification of the engine oil to be used. I have a Renault Master base vehicle. It is the 150 dCi model with a particulate filter. The maintenance handbook stipulates engine oil to a C3 specification and SAE 5W30. Took it for servicing at my local Renault Trucks franchise who filled it with SAE 10W40 oil. It was only because I insisted on knowing what oil was used that the error came to light. Following a call to Renault technical, they replaced the recently filled oil and oil filter with the appropriate SAE 5W30 oil and a new filter.
The garage's "excuse" was that the VIN number simply told them what size engine was fitted, but not the extra features like the presence of the particulate filter. How prevelent this sort of problem is I don't know, but the new Sevel and Ford base vehicle engines may have a similar potential.
Richard.