As long as it meets the spec, you should be okay. Walmart actually had 5 liter jugs of the Castrol Professional LL03 5w30 oil pretty cheap (online only). Sorry, misread it previously and posted about filters instead haha.
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That is weird but looks like decent quality
Again, go Mobil1 ESP 0W30 or preferably 5W30.
Available in Auto Zone and Advanced Auto Parts around $37 for 5qt.
Is that a diesel gate car? If so can you even register it?
Its has the updates done from VW. That being said I never understood the hate VW got for that. I for one want a car that cheats on emissions testing. More power better fuel economy and they snooker the govt.... seems like a win win
I have four TDIs. The most important thing is to do the periodic maintenance on schedule. And use the right oil, which I believe must meet the VW 507 standard for your car’s year. There are lots of good vendors. My fave is idparts.com. I have no connection with them other than as a customer.
Also vital: If winters are bad where you are, you must use an additive to prevent your fuel from gelling up and stranding you in the middle of nowhere at 4 am when it’s minus 10 outside and there’s no cell phone service.
Also vital: If winters are bad where you are, you must use an additive to prevent your fuel from gelling up and stranding you in the middle of nowhere at 4 am when it’s minus 10 outside and there’s no cell phone service.
I recently bought an extremely clean 2015 Golf Sportwagen SEL 6-speed manual in excellent condition. Drives nice.
If your state doesn’t have periodic emission checks, gut the dpf and EGR from it. It will become a totally different vehicle and will routinely get over 50mpgs. Your oil won’t even get jet black.
If you have emissions and you don’t do a lot of highway you will need to ensure you drive long enough for the regen to happen.
If you have emissions and you don’t do a lot of highway you will need to ensure you drive long enough for the regen to happen.
My 2003 TDI was too old for an emissions test. Not so my 2015.
Like Edy said before, VW 504 00/507 00 is only 0W-30 or 5W-30.
And VW 511 00 meets the same requirements, but is either 0W-40
or 5W-40 instead. However, according choice is extremly narrower.
See my sig below for all and the very latest VW 507 00 approved oils.
Any VW 504 00/507 00 is fine, even better one along with MB229.51
or 229.52, BMW LL-04, Porsche C30 (C40 corresponds to VW 511 00).
My personal favourites are M1 ESP 5W-30, Ravenol VMP 5W-30 and
Pennzoil Platinum Euro LX 0W-30 (= Shell Helix Ultra ECT C2/C3 =
Shell Helix Ultra Professional AV-L 0W-30).
I actually do use Purflux with 'chevron' pleats since it came from the
factory for my Mini Cooper. This application seem to use all synthetic
media. I still don't believe their 'more surface are' thing. Probably just
another marketing BS . . .
(genuine BMW/Mini and Purflux are the EXACT SAME)
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