I change my oil once a year and buy a case. that gives me two quarts as spares. half way into the year, I put a quart in and just checked it as I was going to go a few extra months and the level is not even touching the bottom of the dips stick. I think I might have 3000 miles per year... so, is a quart every 1500miles excessive?

 

1/2 liter the past 4,000 miles for me.

 

Mine seems to be burning through a lot of the new BMW Twinpower M-car oil, along the same lines of a quart/1500-miles. I'm going to be switching back to the Castrol unicorn blood and to see if is the oil or my engine that's most to blame.

 

I need to get myself a supply of oil, though my '15 seems to be way better about it than my '11 was.

I've searched the forums numerous times, but what *EXACTLY* is the oil I should keep in stock at home to top up the OEM oil?

Thanks.

 

Do any of you get your oil tested at Blackstone? They will do an analysis of it

 

I do all the time for my Porsche race car... but , not on the Aston. figure its not in any danger yet of "issues".. I should do it, just for grins.


interesting that the oil burn is so high. 1 quart for 1500miles seems like a lot. usually, if there is no smoke, its rings letting things by and burning it up out the pipe, slowly. no leaks.. clean as a whistle underneath the car

 

If my car was using a lot of oil, I would want it tested. As you know it can tell you a lot.

 

Mines just a summer toy , don't track it , don't abuse it ....doesn't burn oil and it gets changed every year regardless of mileage .

 

Mine is in a similar situation to yours only difference is we don't have winter like some of you guys
I'm curious if you do low mileage in a perticular year and change oil do you replace the filter and clean the two metal strainers as well?
I have done less than 1000 miles with mine in the last 12 months and agree I will change the oil, but I'm thinking its a waste to pull the filter, what do you think?
Car not tracked but I do drive it enthusiasticly when I get it out, and it gets hot here sometimes.

 

I've seen Blackstone reports on oil but I honestly don't understand what I'm looking at on them.

I'll send in a sample of the BMW Twinpower oil. Just filled out the form for the sample kit. I'll send in the sample and post the results when I get them so you guys can interpret them lol.

Aston has officially been using Castrol Edge 10W60 (it's in the owner's manual).
It's the same stuff BMW used in their N/A M cars' V8 and V10 engines (M3 and M5/6) until recently.
BMW now uses a Shell-supplied oil which, logically, should be perfectly acceptable in the V8V.

I've noticed in an extremely unscientific manner that my car seems to be burning through more of the Shell oil than it seemed to burn of the Castrol oil.

Castrol's 'Edge' product line has been reshuffled, reformulated, and renamed so many times that the various lines within it are pretty much meaningless at this point. Edge, Edge Sport, Edge Professional... now some kind of Titanium buzzword nonsense...

All that said, any oil meeting minimum factory requirements (main one being SN rating) should be fine. Both the Castrol and Shell 10W60 oils used by BMW meet all of Aston's requirements.

There's tons of info on the forum for all of this if you want more detail.

 

Thanks, but I've searched through the threads an awful lot, and can't seem to simply locate which one I need to order.

I don't have the owners manual for my '15 and as far as I know, the oil that Aston use has now, as you've said, been renamed about 50 times, thus I'm utterly lost as to where I can buy/what particular oil to order.

 

Guys, mine is a part time toy as well. 3k miles a year and I change the oil every winter.
as far as the filter.. I don't change it, as the oil doesn't look that dirty, but I do dump out any residual oil. im sure the filter will not clog and restrict flow on 3-10k miles of use.. after all, im only changing every year because of time (and oxidation due to time) not useage.


so, ill probably change the filter every 3 changes.


by the way..... I just checked the oil level again! GUYS, its true, you have to measure the oil level after the car is cold and you start it and run it for 30secs at 2000rpm and turn off. the level went from no reading , to 3/4 full... so I guess im not burning any oil. ive always noticed that hot level was not much different.. do you guys see the same thing. however, I never knew cold level migiht be way down to the point of NO reading on the dipstick.. interesting!

 

I had my oil from my Lotus ELISE tested by them once. Very interesting results and quick as well. I have not had the oil from the Aston Martin tested yet no need. I have 7500 miles on my 2007 Vantage now. It had 2800 miles on it when I bought it in August 2014. I have the oil changed once a year. I have not found that the car uses any oil in between changes.
I drive the car fairly aggressively after it's fully warmed up .
Ron

 

The oil gets changed the screens are pulled and the the oil thermostat get removed so I get as much of the oil drained as possible . I have a hoist so it's no problem for me . I always change the filter what's the point in changing the oil if you don't change the filter ?
When I got the car it had a Bosch oil filter on it , that crossed to a Fram PH 9010 so I used that . I did get an Aston Filter cheap on flea bay so I just used that but I will go back to the Bosch or Fram or K&N whatever I can get locally . It's just a filter so I'm not paying 50$ just to get an Aston part# painted on a K&N or whoevers filter it is and seeing as it gets changed way more frequently than actually required I'm not concerned .

 

This probably has to do with the fact that it is a dry sump system.