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As an aside, on a thread that's about hydraulic fluids
Have TOTAL officially stopped stocking their filling stations with LHM? They never seem to have it any more. I just got rooked because I needed some quickly and the only place I could get to after work before it closed was Halfrauds. Do you know they now call it a "Specialist" fluid, and therefore it's over £10 for 1 litre??? They seem to have pulled the Bendix/Castrol LHM which is what I used to get when I was in there.
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Have TOTAL officially stopped stocking their filling stations with LHM? They never seem to have it any more. I just got rooked because I needed some quickly and the only place I could get to after work before it closed was Halfrauds. Do you know they now call it a "Specialist" fluid, and therefore it's over £10 for 1 litre??? They seem to have pulled the Bendix/Castrol LHM which is what I used to get when I was in there.
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Sadly, this would not surprise me, LHM seems to be getting more difficult (and expensive) to buy casually (ie not from someone good like Lockwoods).
Last time I went to GSF, I bought the last 3 bottle they had in stock, and the last time I went to a motor factors they had only 3 in also, and were somewhat expensive.
Last time I went to GSF, I bought the last 3 bottle they had in stock, and the last time I went to a motor factors they had only 3 in also, and were somewhat expensive.
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GSF still seem to be able to order in 20l drums, i dont know why people are buying it in 1 litre containers, when will you ever use just one litre? Always seems to be 20ml or 5litres for me!
Its not really a surprise that its getting rare, there are less and less HP cits on the road every year. That said you should be able to bulk buy 1 litre containers at the Stratford meet!
Its not really a surprise that its getting rare, there are less and less HP cits on the road every year. That said you should be able to bulk buy 1 litre containers at the Stratford meet!
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20 Litres I know my cars leak a bit of lhm, but even all 3 would struggle to get through that over 3 years Ideally i'd like to buy a 5 litre can, but they only seem to do 1 litre jobbies, i'll be buying some more at stratford as they are normally only £10 for 3 litres
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Yeah, Stratford for sure. I never found anywhere that did a 5L can off the shelf. When I was last at Citromobile in Utrecht, they were flogging 5L flagons very cheaply. I picked up a couple of 1L bottles when I was last at the Carrefour in Calais, but I've gone through those.
Pesky rear HC leak
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Pesky rear HC leak
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I disagree it is getting harder to buy LHM!jonathan_dyane wrote:Sadly, this would not surprise me, LHM seems to be getting more difficult (and expensive) to buy casually (ie not from someone good like Lockwoods).
Last time I went to GSF, I bought the last 3 bottle they had in stock, and the last time I went to a motor factors they had only 3 in also, and were somewhat expensive.
For me it has always been hard to source a supply of LHM in the land of the long white cloud Impossible to be able to get anything other than 1ltr even from Citroen. Although I have found a source that sells it from a bulk supply.
Yes it has become more expensive but I also doubt its becoming a specialist oil considering as I pointed out in another thread LHM is in use for Argricultural Machinery more. Then again maybe thats why its becoming expensive and harder to find? The blardy farmers are hoarding it
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kiwi wrote:I disagree it is getting harder to buy LHM!
For me it has always been hard to source a supply of LHM in the land of the long white cloud Impossible to be able to get anything other than 1ltr even from Citroen. Although I have found a source that sells it from a bulk supply.
Yes it has become more expensive but I also doubt its becoming a specialist oil considering as I pointed out in another thread LHM is in use for Argricultural Machinery more. Then again maybe thats why its becoming expensive and harder to find? The blardy farmers are hoarding it
I think I will stock up on some LHM too, if the price is going up to these dizzy amounts as listed by THIS e-bay sellerMULLEY wrote: I'll be buying some more at stratford as they are normally only £10 for 3 litres
Edit/update 'E-bay/seller' has now altered the Start/bidding price from £99 to 99p , that's better
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Could I suggest that a sticky - if anyone on here now has the means to do that - on various stockists of LHM would be a good idea?
I last made a distress purchase of LHM in the local branch of Partco - what used to be Unipart. More expensive than GSF/Eurocarparts but certainly much cheaper than the Halfrauds price quoted elsewhere.
They also had plenty of it in that particular branch, though that might be because they're used by a local ex-Citeroen mechanic running his own business now who services all makes but still has oleo-pneumatic-Citroen-owning customers (including one with a GTi 4x4 I saw and spoke to him about yesterday).
My most recent experience in France (ok - haven't been over there for about a year now) suggests LHM in the French hypermarkets is getting more expensive than it used to be, though at least it's still available there.
As for the larger sizes, would suggest it's a case of "grab it while you can" - and the European meets are probably a good source if you go to them. In reference to Total service stations no longer stocking lhm - in my experience it's been many years since their standard outlets have done so. This I think is particularly because many of their outlets are fast-turnover sites on motorways or main roads where mainstream but heftily-priced fast-movers have long been the name of the game for what's stocked.
I last made a distress purchase of LHM in the local branch of Partco - what used to be Unipart. More expensive than GSF/Eurocarparts but certainly much cheaper than the Halfrauds price quoted elsewhere.
They also had plenty of it in that particular branch, though that might be because they're used by a local ex-Citeroen mechanic running his own business now who services all makes but still has oleo-pneumatic-Citroen-owning customers (including one with a GTi 4x4 I saw and spoke to him about yesterday).
My most recent experience in France (ok - haven't been over there for about a year now) suggests LHM in the French hypermarkets is getting more expensive than it used to be, though at least it's still available there.
As for the larger sizes, would suggest it's a case of "grab it while you can" - and the European meets are probably a good source if you go to them. In reference to Total service stations no longer stocking lhm - in my experience it's been many years since their standard outlets have done so. This I think is particularly because many of their outlets are fast-turnover sites on motorways or main roads where mainstream but heftily-priced fast-movers have long been the name of the game for what's stocked.
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