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If you need repairs or servicing, or an MOT for your car or motorbike, call Reading Service & MOT Centre. We have over 20 years' experience of providing an excellent service, and great value for money. We're Reading's premier car servicing and MOT centre. Call us today. ...

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BGS Car Repairs Winnersh Reading, a family run business with over 45 years experience in vehicle repairs

Near Crowthorne

~30 miles London (7)
~26 miles Watford (2)
~31 miles Crawley (2)
~33 miles Oxford (2)
~3 miles Wokingham (1)
~9 miles Reading (1)
~29 miles Horsham (1)
~30 miles County Durham (1)
~31 miles Andover (1)
~1 miles Sandhurst (0)
~2 miles Yateley (0)
~3 miles Camberley (0)
~3 miles Bracknell (0)
~4 miles Bagshot (0)
~5 miles Lightwater (0)
~5 miles Windlesham (0)
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When choosing oil for your car, should be directed generally to manufacturers' recommendations. The cars having about ten years half synthetic oil listed inside the user's manual properly, you can convert newer "synthetics" from Crowthorne. Engine oil is just about the most important liquids that will be in the car. Is responsible for the lubrication of the drive unit, reduces the friction of the engine during operation, keeps it clean, also acts as a cooling it. That is why it truly is so important to use oil recommended through the manufacturer of the car - it is crucial to maintain the engine in good condition. On the shelves you'll find synthetic oils, semi-synthetic and mineral. As Paul explains to help us, technical manager at Castrol, they differ databases oil and additive packages. Synthetic oils Currently, most of the work executed on synthetic oils and perhaps they are the most developed - so one of these are better suited for the requirements of engine producers, and motorcycles are more durable and efficient work. Synthetics exceed mineral and semi-synthetic oils in each and every respect. They can operate from higher temperatures and increased pressures on lubricated areas than minerals. Through their heat amount of resistance is not deposited such as carbon deposits on internal engine parts, which prolongs its lifestyle. See also: Oil filters, fuel, air - when and tips on how to replace them? At the same period, they are sufficiently fluid inside the low temperature - stays flow able even minus 60 degrees Celsius. So make it easy engine starting inside the winter, when applying thick mineral oils is usually difficult when is wintry. They also affect a reduction of friction resistance plus in fuel consumption. Better care about the cleanliness of the engine, reducing sediment in this. Longer periods are to be replaced, because they are growing old more slowly. They can therefore work inside the so-called. long life mode, which is an extended run between oil inside the car, but especially in vehicles with turbocharged safer to switch the oil every 10-15 1000. km or once annually. In most new vehicles from South East (Crowthorne) applied synthetics. Semi-synthetic oils Have many properties a lot like synthetics, provide better engine protection than mineral oils. There is no principle, when and at what course you should change the oil with synthetic semi-synthetic. Even if the car has driven tens of thousands of kilometers but the drive unit does not show any signs of wear and is particularly fully operational, it is not recommended to resign from your synthesizer. May be for this option when you need to save. This oil is more cost-effective than synthetic, and protects the motor at the high level. A liter of synthetic oil costs usually previously mentioned 30 GBP, prices reach up to help 120 GBP. In Crowthorne you must pay about 25-30 GBP, while a mineral : GBP 18-20. Mineral oils Mineral oil from Crowthorne could be the worst of all sorts. It is their easy use in older engines, a high mileage plus when the burning connected with oil, or colloquially speaking - the automobile is taken in the oil an excessive amount of. If you buy a used, for example, 15-year-old car from Crowthorne, in which the engine is broken down and also we aren't sure what oil was used before, safer to choose a mineral or semi-synthetic oil in order to avoid washout of carbon deposits - might lead to spills or reduce the degree of compression engine. - When we are sure the car in Crowthorne while gaining significant progress rode about synthetic or semi-synthetic oil, you can use oil of the same type but by having an increased viscosity. - It can appreciably reduce oil consumption through the engine, as well as the impact on the reduction of noise emitted through the drive unit.