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Offline 55golf

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Question about long life oil
« on: November 04, 2012, 10:18:10 am »
If my ed 30 has been on long life oil, is it just  case of draining it out and putting normal 5/30 shor life oil in

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Re: Question about long life oil
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2012, 10:31:57 am »
Longlife oil is the only oil you should use in a GTI. This is VW's position, not mine.

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Re: Question about long life oil
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2012, 04:05:39 pm »
For longlife only 5/30 504.00 can be used,for 10k intervals 5w/40 502.00 can be used or the longlife oil previously mentioned.  No 5/30 shortlife oils i have seen meet Volkswagen spec so dont use it,they tend to be for Zetec fords.

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Re: Question about long life oil
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2012, 06:38:16 pm »
Castrol Edge 5/30 seems to be very popular. I guess that this is long life and it's only £35 from ASDA!!
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Re: Question about long life oil
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2012, 12:09:46 am »
Try not to think of it as long life or normal life oil but as Fully Synthetic ("long life") and Semi Synthetic ("normal"). It's very much advised that Golf GTIs should be run on Fully Synthetic Oil for best performance.

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Re: Question about long life oil
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2012, 12:35:59 am »
so what oil is most people using,,, 5w30 - if so any specific brand to recommend

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Re: Question about long life oil
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2012, 06:59:01 pm »
Volkswagen uk use Castrol so you may as well get that but really any thats got the spec 504.00 written on it for Longlife.

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Re: Question about long life oil
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2012, 07:12:17 pm »
Castrol Edge seems to be the popular choice on here. I'm on Mobil 1 at the moment, only because I got a good deal on it.
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Re: Question about long life oil
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2012, 08:53:54 pm »
So is the TFSI different to the mk6 TSI as my dealers been using VW Quantum platinum 5W40 in our Mk6 GTI the past two years services.
My manual does say 502.00 for non long life or 504.00 for long life. The quantum is approved to VW 502.00

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« Last Edit: November 05, 2012, 09:06:20 pm by Snoopy »
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