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Old 16th July 2014, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Duffy View Post
My summer toy is a Porsche Boxster 987 3.2S, the perceived wisdom to stop the engines going 'bang' is to double up on oil changes. It's relatively common practice for us to use Kwik Fit for this as they usually use Mobil 1 fully synthetic and an OEM filter, all for 25-33% of the price of an OPC.
Kwik Fit use an oil change as a loss leader to get you in the door in the hope of getting other, more profitable,work whilst you are there).

I wouldn't use them for a proper service, however, for an oil change, it's a no brainer.

I hang around whilst they do it though.

I know about this as a previous Boxster owner too.

However, both my local indy and local OPC would both price match - an oil service at Solihull OPC for the same price as KwikFit, now that was a no brainer!

There have also been instances reported on boxa.net about KF messing up Boxster services, overfilling being quite common, but also doubts whether it is actually Mobil 1 being used
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