[McOlaf]

I am planning to get my car ready for winter.. including an oil change of course...

Will this be any good?

Millers Oil Trident 5w30 5L | Millers Trident Engine Oils | Car Engine Oils | Autopoint - Autopoint

And, I've heard that there's 2 types of oil filter on the X25XE engine, as far as I can see it's a normal "metal" filter....

And another one.. is it easy to (partly) change the auto box fluid? I know not all can come out as there is about half of it staying in the torque converter, but still half of it, is better than nothing....

I am going to Holland in December.. driving to Hull, take the ferry there, but I want her to be fit for about 2000 miles in 7 days...

Any other ideas to do? just to keep her going, or get her even better?

[matt-m]

you need the millers 10/40w semi synt oil bud the 5w is more for turbo engines and not suitable for a v6 .. i found it makes it tappy and you get more oil leaks .

auto box i would just check and top up the fluid tbh as changing to fresh fluid can cause problems as you mix old an new fluids togther ( i broke a 3.2 vec elite with autobox failure due to this) but if you want to drain there is a drain and top up plug on the front of the box think there is a specific way to remove and replace the fluid lee may know

[ASTOBBS]

are you staying in holland or driving northwards into northern europe?

While the vec's are best on 10w/40, if you're heading somewhere cold the reduced viscosity of the 5w/30 may be kinder on a cold engine.

[McOlaf]

	Quote:
	Originally Posted by ASTOBBS are you staying in holland or driving northwards into northern europe?.

No I'm driving south I'm in Scotland
And from Hull we take a ferry to Zeebrugge Belgium.. from there we drive to Holland to spend the holidays with family... we'll drive back the 28th to Zeebrugge, and then a 14hr journey to Hull...

[ASTOBBS]

sounds like a good road trip, I'd love to go over to denmark on the ferry from kings lynn, and drive up into northern norway as far as I could get, then try and work over into finland, and back down through latvia, eventually returning via the euro tunnel - but its one for the future and the fuel cost would be astronomic.

[Leeky]

Sounds much like my aim to fly out to Toronto, buy a car, and drive it all the way down to San Francisco, stay with family and then sell it and fly back again.

[McOlaf]

haha ASTOBBS well that would be a monster trip...
@Leeky... well, you gotta have dreams
America... I want to go there sometime... just to see what kind of a country that is

The ferry has been booked now, we're sailing the 21st of December... hope the Vectra will like it as much as I do..