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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2009, 01:08:44 pm »
I bought 5 litres from VW a few months back for topping up it's 5W-40, and just had a service this week and received a 1 litre bottle of 5W-30.  Not sure how these line up under the VW gradings.

From memory one of the original VW grades in the manual has been discontinued, but can't recall if its 502 or 504?!
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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2009, 01:30:35 pm »
I'd also be a little concerned as to why a fairly new engine is using so much oil too. When was it last serviced?
You're kidding right? Have you seen the tolerances from VW on oil consumption? They're MASSIVE. My cousin bought a new beetle a few years ago and it was drinking about a litre of oil every month. She complained and 2 VW dealers told her 'that's within expected tolerances'.  :surprised:

The tolerance for a mk5 R32 according to the dealer is 1 litre of oil every 600 miles. That's a hell of a lot of oil!

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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2009, 04:29:59 pm »
Just to make sure, are the oil specs 502/504/507?

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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2009, 05:41:17 pm »
I've done 6,700 miles since getting the Pirelli  :laugh:


As soon as the Oil light came on, i filled her up. She was low  :signLOL:


What is the best Oil for my Pirelli then ?

Castrol Edge 5w\30  ?


Would like to know and i shall get some and fill her fully up - only put 1 litre in yesterday, had very little money on me.

Since i've put this Castrol Edge OW-40, is it recommended i use the same Oil or is it still OK to use, lets say - i.e Mobil 1 OW-40 ?


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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2009, 06:09:31 pm »
I'd also be a little concerned as to why a fairly new engine is using so much oil too. When was it last serviced?
You're kidding right? Have you seen the tolerances from VW on oil consumption? They're MASSIVE. My cousin bought a new beetle a few years ago and it was drinking about a litre of oil every month. She complained and 2 VW dealers told her 'that's within expected tolerances'.  :surprised:

The tolerance for a mk5 R32 according to the dealer is 1 litre of oil every 600 miles. That's a hell of a lot of oil!
my last 3 cars have had the 2.0 tfsi  and none of them ever used a drop  :innocent:

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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #20 on: December 10, 2009, 07:07:24 pm »
I'd also be a little concerned as to why a fairly new engine is using so much oil too. When was it last serviced?
You're kidding right? Have you seen the tolerances from VW on oil consumption? They're MASSIVE. My cousin bought a new beetle a few years ago and it was drinking about a litre of oil every month. She complained and 2 VW dealers told her 'that's within expected tolerances'.  :surprised:

The tolerance for a mk5 R32 according to the dealer is 1 litre of oil every 600 miles. That's a hell of a lot of oil!
my last 3 cars have had the 2.0 tfsi  and none of them ever used a drop  :innocent:

That sounds more like it. Just because tolerances are (apparently...) silly doesn't mean you should not be concerned when it does drop quite low relatively quickly. It doesn't rule out a holed-sump or ruptured line.


That said, even if the tolerances are silly, it wouldn't be an issue if you kept a regular eye on it.
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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #21 on: December 10, 2009, 07:52:15 pm »
What is the best Oil for my Pirelli then ?

Castrol Edge 5w\30  ?

Whatever your owners manual says.  :smiley:

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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #22 on: December 10, 2009, 09:51:03 pm »
What is the best Oil for my Pirelli then ?

Castrol Edge 5w\30  ?

Whatever your owners manual says.  :smiley:


I was reading for 10 mins through my owners manual and all i could find was We Recommend Castol... but it didnt say specifically which one :innocent:
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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #23 on: December 10, 2009, 10:12:04 pm »
I use halfords VW spec 5W30 in a 2 litre bottle for my top ups (plenty of them!)  :confused:
Is that 502 or 507 spec??

504 and 507 and exceeds all other standards :)
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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #24 on: December 11, 2009, 09:10:04 am »
my last 3 cars have had the 2.0 tfsi  and none of them ever used a drop  :innocent:
Out of my last 15 cars, only 1 has ever needed a top up between services  :wink:
That was a Saxo VTS with a big leak on the cylinder head.

I do check regularly, I think I have just been lucky  :smiley:

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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #25 on: December 11, 2009, 09:14:52 am »

[/quote]my last 3 cars have had the 2.0 tfsi  and none of them ever used a drop  :innocent:
[/quote]

funny that me too  :smiley:, and none of them have used any oil :happy2:

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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #26 on: December 11, 2009, 08:36:32 pm »
I use halfords VW spec 5W30 in a 2 litre bottle for my top ups (plenty of them!)  :confused:
Is that 502 or 507 spec??

504 and 507 and exceeds all other standards :)
castrol do a special oil for vw /audi  which helps with the pcv / dirty valves thing , i read up about this and changed to it straight away and plan to change the oil now every 6 months

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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #27 on: December 11, 2009, 09:16:10 pm »
Which one is this?  Does it have a name?

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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #28 on: December 11, 2009, 10:13:17 pm »
castrol edge 5w30 for vw / audi  engines , it has been designed for fsi , funny though vw or audi service dont use it unless you ask !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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Re: Whats the best Oil to use for the GTi ?
« Reply #29 on: December 12, 2009, 10:23:43 am »
What do they use instead?