Oil for doing 8,000 miles a year?

[mrggg]

Hi i heard you should use longlife oil regardless off mileage? but when I spoke to the garage they said longlife oil is bad for mk5 gti engines, is this true?

What would you recommend? Time and distance oil  and change every 5,000 miles compared to using longlife oil?

[bacillus]

I use Castrol edge 5W-30 long life oil and change it annually.
I suspect the garage meant that your gti should not use the long life service regime but time/distance instead.

[J400uk]

I'm making sure mine gets changed every 10k miles/ 12 months at a bare minimum. Don't really need the Longlife oil if your strict with keeping to shorter intervals.

[dansmith180]

Supposedly long life changes are more for long journeys and higher milage per annum cars, for more shorter journeys and fewer miles per annum (like yourself) time and distance is going to be much better. For a performance engine like ours I don't agree with long life servicing regardless TBH.

[Frodo-anni]

Im sure there was info about the GTI engine is to be run on Time/distance service regime, ie 10k or 12months, on long life oil only.

My average service gap has been 7k each 12mths, but mileage now roughly 15/16k a year, so i will probably get it serviced every 6/7 months or so now.

[Richn83]

On most of the premium oils you can only by the longlife certified oil, so as posted thnk they were meaning you would be best to follow the time and distance regime rather than the longlife regime, the parts used for either service should be the same.

[mrggg]

On most of the premium oils you can only by the longlife certified oil, so as posted thnk they were meaning you would be best to follow the time and distance regime rather than the longlife regime, the parts used for either service should be the same.

Ok thanks a bunch and thanks to the others who replied too.

Would it be better to change the oil every 5000 miles. So I would do a full service every 10,000 miles and then a oil change every 5000 miles using long life oil?

[Frenzy]

The bottom line is always use a fully synthetic oil. Castrol Edge 5w30 is an oil which meets VW recommendations, there are other oil brands that also meet VW recommendations but they are few so stick with Castrol Edge 5w30.

Don't let any garage or the stealers try and confuse you with LL service plans vs T&D as if the car can magically get by on some inferior oil and basically fob you off with some pishy semi synth oil.

[Frenzy]

Here you go this is probably the definitive thread on what oil you should use:

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,5586.0.html

[mrggg]

Here you go this is probably the definitive thread on what oil you should use:

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,5586.0.html

Ok thank you :) I did see that thread but theres 2 types of oils:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Castrol-Professional-III-5w-30-fullysynthetic/dp/B007UJMBAQ

or

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004GZQTQ4/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=479289247&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B007UJMBAQ&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1MCZ9QM3AM2SVA1AABVZ

I want to know for definite which one to get 

[Frenzy]

They are both the same (notwithstanding one is 1Ltr and the other is 4Ltrs) it's merely the label on the bottles that are different 

[bacillus]

Much cheaper on ebay plus free postage.  You need about 4.7l for full oil change including filter.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=06J906262AA&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1311.R1.TR11.TRC1.A0.H0.Xcastrol&_nkw=castrol+edge+5w-30&_sacat=0