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    ZF Lifeguard 8,VW Amarok, 8HP45 transmission

    2014 VW Amarok, 225K kms. Ute has done a fair bit of towing, glad I changed the oil! It's supposed to be "lifetime fill" but this is most certainly not the case in this application. Trans holds 9L of oil but only 5 came out, (rest is in the torque converter) so I'm considering changing it...
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    2008 VW Golf GT Sport, 15000kms OCI (est)

    Just bought this car, thought I'd do a UOA before I serviced it. Unknown oil, OCI 15000kms approx I'm pretty happy with it, let me know what you think! Hendo
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    Less oil consumption due to PAO base?

    Hey All I just checked the oil level in my '94 JZZ30 Soarer as I'm doing a long trip this weekend (1200 Kms) and to my delight found that my oil level hasn't changed in 2500Ks. Using group III synths and HDDEOs my oil consumption was about 1L/5000ks (1 qt/ 3000 miles) and this has been...
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    Re- using oil from a race car

    Hi All Here's the question. At Uni, we build a car for a competition called FSAE. Pretty much design and build a car from scratch to race against other Unis. We run a R6 motorbike engine and use moto specific oils and have tried 5w30 (motul 300v), 10w40 and 20w60 oils to do get data for the car...
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