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After having checked the engine oil on my new 2021 Sportage 1.6mhev Diesel Hybrid AWD (in which the oil is in the normal ‘C’ range on the dipstick), I thought I would buy some oil online to have in stock for ‘topping up’ purposes should it be needed.
Having read in the owner’s handbook, that Kia recommends ‘Total Quartz’ oils, I paid a trip over to Total’s UK website. After inputting my car reg number, it returned the fact that the following ‘Low Saps’ oil is the recommended one for my car:
Total Quartz INEO MDC 5W-30
QUARTZ INEO MDC 5W-30 | Lubricants catalogue for the Total and Elf brands
Great I thought, however, this stuff seems to be like the proverbial ‘rocking horse droppings’ to find online. The only place selling it seems to be suppliers on e-bay from Germany and Lithuania!
The problem is also putting my car number (or even car spec into generic places like Halfords website) doesn’t return any results at all. Or using such as Mobil’s website, it returns a 0W-20 SAE oil which I thought maybe a touch ‘thin’ when the recommended oil is a 5W-30 oil.
So, what oil are people here-abouts using to top up?
I don’t want to give Kia any excuse to invalidate the warranty by using oil which doesn’t meet Kia’s obviously ‘exacting standards’, but they are sure making it difficult to hunt down the correct oil!
I will be getting fleeced at the main dealer at this rate!
Having read in the owner’s handbook, that Kia recommends ‘Total Quartz’ oils, I paid a trip over to Total’s UK website. After inputting my car reg number, it returned the fact that the following ‘Low Saps’ oil is the recommended one for my car:
Total Quartz INEO MDC 5W-30
QUARTZ INEO MDC 5W-30 | Lubricants catalogue for the Total and Elf brands
Great I thought, however, this stuff seems to be like the proverbial ‘rocking horse droppings’ to find online. The only place selling it seems to be suppliers on e-bay from Germany and Lithuania!
The problem is also putting my car number (or even car spec into generic places like Halfords website) doesn’t return any results at all. Or using such as Mobil’s website, it returns a 0W-20 SAE oil which I thought maybe a touch ‘thin’ when the recommended oil is a 5W-30 oil.
So, what oil are people here-abouts using to top up?
I don’t want to give Kia any excuse to invalidate the warranty by using oil which doesn’t meet Kia’s obviously ‘exacting standards’, but they are sure making it difficult to hunt down the correct oil!
I will be getting fleeced at the main dealer at this rate!