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Hi. Resurrecting my old post! Just to give an update, the car has about 150k km now and I am doing yearly oil changes with between 15-20k km per year. One time a couple of years ago I added about 0.5 liter as make-up oil but that was the only time. We will probably sell it in the next year...

Yes, it has a DPF. On the receipt it shows the dealer used "Castrol Long Life 3" oil. Doesn't mention the brand name. A spare liter I bought 1.5 years ago is called Castrol Edge but doesn't mention Long Life anywhere on the label.

http://www.volkswagen.de/de/Volkswagen/nachhaltigkeit/praxis/rat_und_tat/einfahren.html

Don't know why the fuel contamination was there but it cleared up for the second uoa. Someone on tdiclub thought the previous owner might have used biodiesel thereby causing it. I bought the car with 16k km and it was a rental so I doubt it had any fuel in it other than the standard German pump...

Here's the second report after another 15,264km. By the way, I don't have any issue with rude comments, this is the internet by the way IMO, the jiffy lubes and others in the US have kept people thinking they need to change oil every 3000k miles or death will occur. The shops here in germany...

First oil change on a 1.6 TDI in Germany. Car has the Long life OCI option. The MFD showed 1900 km left on the oil when it was changed. Total mileage is at 27,048km. Opinions? Recommendations? Thanks.