Hello, my first post here, but I've peeked in here and there for last 10 years.
I take possession of a Audi TT next month. It's a 2000, 1.8T with 225hp Quattro. 100,000km, 6 speed manual. I like to push my cars a bit, drive a bit aggressively, but take extremely good care of them. I live in Canada and see a temperature swing from +30 to -30 Celsius. My hope is to run one oil year round, and probably change at about 5000km but would like to push that back a bit if safe to do so.
I spent last couple nights searching posts from others regarding the Audi 1.8T, but they all seem to be pretty old, and the oil on the shelf today has changed a bit over the years. So my questions:
-What oil to run. I currently have 5w-30 and 5w-20 Castrol Edge titanium that I use in my Honda Odyssey. And I recently picked up some castrol edge titanium 0w-40 (made in Germany) on a good sale. My plan was to run the 0w-40 but have read some opinions that it's a bit thin and increases valvetrain noise. The 0w-40 is VW502, which my research suggest is good as long as I dont try to do long change intervals? Or do you think this oil is a mistake and I should go with something completely different?
-second question, I don't know what kind of oil was used previously, and want to play it safe/get a fresh start. Any recommendations on cleaning out the oil system. I don't like those flush type products, too aggressive on old seals I think. So my limited knowledge would be either change oil with something cheaper, only run a few hundred Km, change again with the synthetic oil. Or what about adding a different oil with high cleaning properties, like a Diesel engine oil or something along those lines?
-third question, oil filter. In the past I've used wix gold, but I've read some people recommending Mahle or Mann filters for the Audi?
Thanks a ton for any help, I am new to this so please try not to lose me with a bunch of abbreviations and slang words!
I take possession of a Audi TT next month. It's a 2000, 1.8T with 225hp Quattro. 100,000km, 6 speed manual. I like to push my cars a bit, drive a bit aggressively, but take extremely good care of them. I live in Canada and see a temperature swing from +30 to -30 Celsius. My hope is to run one oil year round, and probably change at about 5000km but would like to push that back a bit if safe to do so.
I spent last couple nights searching posts from others regarding the Audi 1.8T, but they all seem to be pretty old, and the oil on the shelf today has changed a bit over the years. So my questions:
-What oil to run. I currently have 5w-30 and 5w-20 Castrol Edge titanium that I use in my Honda Odyssey. And I recently picked up some castrol edge titanium 0w-40 (made in Germany) on a good sale. My plan was to run the 0w-40 but have read some opinions that it's a bit thin and increases valvetrain noise. The 0w-40 is VW502, which my research suggest is good as long as I dont try to do long change intervals? Or do you think this oil is a mistake and I should go with something completely different?
-second question, I don't know what kind of oil was used previously, and want to play it safe/get a fresh start. Any recommendations on cleaning out the oil system. I don't like those flush type products, too aggressive on old seals I think. So my limited knowledge would be either change oil with something cheaper, only run a few hundred Km, change again with the synthetic oil. Or what about adding a different oil with high cleaning properties, like a Diesel engine oil or something along those lines?
-third question, oil filter. In the past I've used wix gold, but I've read some people recommending Mahle or Mann filters for the Audi?
Thanks a ton for any help, I am new to this so please try not to lose me with a bunch of abbreviations and slang words!