My wife drives a 2013 VW Polo with a 1.2 12v 3 cylinder engine that she drives reasonably hard (hey, it's got 60hp, it's flat out or nothing).
The car has just shy of 30k on the clock and it does around 5,000miles a year. Her daily commute is appropriately 5 miles to work and 5 miles home again through a mix of 30mph and 60mph roads.
I do 6 month oil changes on it (well, I've done one so far as we've only had the car 8 months) and noticed everything inside the engine seems to have an orange tinge/varnish to it. I changed the oil 2 months ago and it's done about 800 miles since and the new oil has turned to a very dark amber colour very quickly.
Looking at the previous service history it has been serviced every 10k or 1 year as per the manufacturers specification by VW and has had a mix of 502 or 504 oil (unsure of viscosity). I guess they used whatever the mechanic fancied on that day.
I know 504 only seems to come as a 5w30 but 502 comes in 0w30, 5w30, 10w30, 0w40 and 10w40.
Ambient temperatures bottom out about -10°c (14°F) with a maximum of around 30°c (86°F).
So what would you use and why? And what viscosity?
At the moment I'm thinking M1 New Life/Turbo Diesel 0w40 (502/505) or M1 ESP 5w30 (504/507).
The car has just shy of 30k on the clock and it does around 5,000miles a year. Her daily commute is appropriately 5 miles to work and 5 miles home again through a mix of 30mph and 60mph roads.
I do 6 month oil changes on it (well, I've done one so far as we've only had the car 8 months) and noticed everything inside the engine seems to have an orange tinge/varnish to it. I changed the oil 2 months ago and it's done about 800 miles since and the new oil has turned to a very dark amber colour very quickly.
Looking at the previous service history it has been serviced every 10k or 1 year as per the manufacturers specification by VW and has had a mix of 502 or 504 oil (unsure of viscosity). I guess they used whatever the mechanic fancied on that day.
I know 504 only seems to come as a 5w30 but 502 comes in 0w30, 5w30, 10w30, 0w40 and 10w40.
Ambient temperatures bottom out about -10°c (14°F) with a maximum of around 30°c (86°F).
So what would you use and why? And what viscosity?
At the moment I'm thinking M1 New Life/Turbo Diesel 0w40 (502/505) or M1 ESP 5w30 (504/507).