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[Richie83]

I've searched the forum and found that Castrol LM is the go to grease for the suspension grease nipples, but where do you guys buy it from at a reasonable price? I've Googled it and it seems to be rare. Am I looking too hard, for the wrong thing or place? Help appreciated 😀

[ChopperHarris]

any motor factors/Halfords

[A-Cell]

Cast roll LM grease was replaced by Castrol Multipurpose grease, which is what you will now find in Halfords and other places now.
It is a mutipurpose lithium grease. Good For wheel bearings and chassis lubrication.

[Richie83]

Cast roll LM grease was replaced by Castrol Multipurpose grease, which is what you will now find in Halfords and other places now.
It is a mutipurpose lithium grease. Good For wheel bearings and chassis lubrication.

brilliant. I thought that was the case; often the easiest answer is the right one.

[gazza82]

Cast roll LM

 

Don't you just love predictive text ...

[Tamworthbay]

Sad how marketing to the lowest denominator changes things, LM has been around decades but changed to multipurpose as it was expected to sell more.

[A-Cell]

Cast roll LM

 
Don't you just love predictive text ...

Ha ha. Completely off topic, however could have been worse e.g. Casserole multi porpoise Greece!!

[A-Cell]

Sad how marketing to the lowest denominator changes things, LM has been around decades but changed to multipurpose as it was expected to sell more.

Marketing over engineering! Life's great dumbing down process.

[Richie83]

This actually seems to be rare as hens teeth. Seems Halfords now stock Comma stuff. Anyone bought this recently?

[A-Cell]

Bought some last year in halfords. Not listed on their website now.
B&Q list it, available in store, ability to check stock at your local store here http://www.diy.com/d...g/218287_BQ.prd
Find your local motor factor, they should have it. Also useful for other consumables.

[Spider]

 

 

Cast roll LM

 
Don't you just love predictive text ...

Ha ha. Completely off topic, however could have been worse e.g. Casserole multi porpoise Greece!!

 

 

I'm waiting for a Castrate to come up!

[tiger99]

There are specialist wheel bearing greases which may give longer bearing life or lower friction than a multipurpose grease. Google will find them. Having said that, I almost always used LM, without problems. Not for CV joints, except in dire emergency for no more than a few days, sliding splines on pre-pot joint driveshafts, or water pumps, if yours is old enough to have a nipple, but useful anywhere else on the car, bicycle, lawnmower....

 

Was cheap as chips, but I expect they have made a large price increase, obscured by the name change. A well-known marketing trick.

 

Sad that the marketing men changed the name, LM always was a multipurpose grease. Reminds me of the time British Airways took the Union Jack off their tails and replaced it with seemingly random splodges of colour. It did not boost their business. The Union Jack is back.

[whistler]

Strange that Halfords don't sell Castrol grease anymore. They used to be owned by Castrol-Burmah oil company; don't know if that's still the case.

[Spider]

Strange that Halfords don't sell Castrol grease anymore. They used to be owned by Castrol-Burmah oil company; don't know if that's still the case.

 

BP bought Castrol a few years back.

[gazza82]

Strange that Halfords don't sell Castrol grease anymore. They used to be owned by Castrol-Burmah oil company; don't know if that's still the case.

 

Halfords has been in private hands for a while ... possibly venture capitalists ..