Renault Scenic 1.6 (2001): Identifying Previous Oil Type or Opting for Complete Oil Change

Hello! I bought a Renault scenic 1.6 from 2001. Unfortunately, I don't know what oil was poured in earlier. Is there any way to check this or should I change the oil completely? Please help!

Look for a bottle in the trunk, a sticker on the pillar between the doors, or notes under the hood.
If nothing is found, the oil needs to be changed.

Theoretically, all oils are miscible, so in the case of a (small) refill, nothing can happen, but you will not miss the replacement, of course, remember about the oil filter - it costs 20 zlotys.

marek19_70 wrote:

Hello! I bought a Renault scenic 1.6 from 2001. Unfortunately, I don't know what oil was poured in earlier. Is there any way to check this or should I change the oil completely? Please help!

Hello, after buying a car with an unknown past (no original service book and, above all, no bills), I would recommend that you replace all belts and body fluids of the car immediately, because NOBODY does it when planning to sell the car!

robertmaciej wrote:

In theory, virtually all oils are miscible

If you have a mineral car in your car, let it be synthetic. - engine to be replaced. If you don't find any sticker, it is safest to pour semi-synthetic.

lukkii wrote:

If you have a mineral car in your car, let it be synthetic. - engine to be replaced.

Why to replace the engine? What will happen to him? (Answer with the facts - not that someone .. sometime ...)

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If you have a mineral car in your car, let's pour a synthetics-engine to be replaced

As he will pour water instead of oil it too
Such myths come from the times of polonaises and toddlers ... We pour the oil we can afford. If the car is to serve longer, it's just a synthetic. If we like to change the car every 2-3 years, such an unstrained petrol 1.6 and it will go on agrol and there will be no major problems. We pour oil that meets the manufacturer's standards, and this can be easily checked. If a car is in great condition, it does not take oil and, most of all, we can afford to maintain it, we pour synthetic and change every 10-15 thousand. If the engine is already old and limp, it is only cheap mineral oil that needs to be added anyway. Because semi-synthetics are actually enriched minerals, and 80% of synthetics are enriched semi-synthetics.

You can pour 10w40 from a good company into this car in the dark and it will be a git, unless you keep the car until its death, you can try a synthetic. Nothing will happen to the mineral one, it is important to change the oil and filter in time.

PS: I admire people who, when changing, for example, the gaskets under the bowl, tell me to pour the old oil into the engine

Because the synthetic will dissolve all the muck deposits, which will remain after the old mineral. And I will not prove it to you, I only advise you. I can take a picture of the Nissan Primiery 2.0 engine, seized, sent to you and seized after such an oil change.

The bowl can be unscrewed and cleaned.
You don't have to send me photos.
I saw the Mazda 2.0V6 engine - the idiot advised to pour 15W40 - after 20 thousand there was nothing to repair.
Fiat Ducato 2.5 TDI - 500.000km mileage - only 5W40 cast oil - no oil drips.
These are examples from my practice, I can list them for a long time.
15W40 is a slow engine killer but if you prefer .....


And one more story - Audi 1.9 TDI PD - oil change in the workshop - Lady - you have a leak
You ask what can be done with it?
Workshop - we will pour 15W40, it will silt up and there will be no leakage.
I was crying with laughter when she told me this - I replaced the simering, the oil with the right one and it's ok.

lukkii wrote:

Because the synthetic will dissolve all the muck deposits, which will remain after the old mineral. And I will not prove it to you, I only advise you. I can take a picture of the Nissan Primiery 2.0 engine, seized, sent to you and seized after such an oil change.

The times of Selektol and carbon deposits are gone forever. In a regularly and properly serviced engine there are no carbon deposits - unless the car was bought from Turas or imported from France where they do not know what an oil change is - they only make refills