Engine oil. What are you all using?

[RichardSEL]

I have used that before Vespa and put in the VW507 specification search which brought up 17 oils that meet the specification with the usual offenders listed Castrol Edge, Valvoline, Shell Helix, Fuchs, PETRONAS etc. Hence I have bought PETRONAS SYNPOWER AV 5000 from ECP at £24.99 / 4L with a free Bosch Oil Filter (worth a fiver). £25 for an oil change with really good stuff AND a filter???...that's a BargaFin - yes an F in Bargain!!

Unfortunately, the promotion has "expired", according to ECP.

With a consumption of 1L per 2,400 miles-ish I feel confident my Comma stuff won't suddenly turn to water.
Nor will the Quantum III I'll be using next. But it'd be daft to go to a no-name soup at nothing-pence for a vat of the stuff.

Long ago and far away I drove an Armstrong Siddley Lancaster (how much worth today?) Used to burn a sump full every two hundred miles or so. So used to use "commercial" grade. Whatever that was, it was rather thick. So much so had to park on a hill in winter and roll down to bump start. "Eeee y'don't know y'born, lad..." etc

[oilman]

Hi

That's why I said most are hydrocracked. There are some that are group IV, but I'm not sure if there are any approved ones that are group V.

Cheers

Tim

[vwcabriolet1971]

[QUOTE=DMitch16;973695]Read the Castrol Edge / Magnetec bottles anyone?

One states "Meets or exceeds", the other just has the standards marked on it (so it meets but does not boast it exceeds the manufacturers specs), of which one is the VW spec. So our famous Castrol oil is not an APPROVED VW oil it seems but by reputation and endorsement is chosen by many...

PS The Tesco VW oil is a "Meets or exceeds" type too.


Castrol edge 5W-30 504/507 IS approved by VW ! This oil is even in my official VW Golf TDI handbook & is on the approved VW oil list !
Castrol magnetic is NOT 504/507 VW approved and has never been labelled as such.
Seems there is still a lot of confusion over oil specs !
I'm amazed that my tongue in cheek comments about Supermarket oil specs were taken at face value - I only posted these to show how ridiculous some spec claims are !

[DMitch16]

Here you go - VW do not publish an Approved list per se but a "Meets the Oil Quality Standards of VW" list. So called "approved" oils are therefore not technically approved but do meet their standards and are on the VW list (I have renamed this the "VW Recommended Oil List").

http://my-gti.com/wp-content/uploads...ngine_oils.pdf

This is not the most up to date list so is STILL not exhaustive but most of the oils are currently marketed.

[vwcabriolet1971]

Here you go - VW do not publish an Approved list per se but a "Meets the Oil Quality Standards of VW" list. So called "approved" oils are therefore not technically approved but do meet their standards and are on the VW list (I have renamed this the "VW Recommended Oil List").

http://my-gti.com/wp-content/uploads...ngine_oils.pdf

This is not the most up to date list so is STILL not exhaustive but most of the oils are currently marketed.

Semantics ! It used to be called the VW approved oil list.

Here is a later list- google "VW approved oil list 2015" - "www.anciravolkswagen.com/blogs/949/.../2015/.../Approved-Oil-List.pd..."

[RichardSEL]

Thanks for the list...

Not only is Quantum Longlife III SAE 5W-30 listed by VW as meeting 504/507,
it's also the best buy for serious-named engine oil at £27 for 5L

[DMitch16]

Semantics ! It used to be called the VW approved oil list.

Here is a later list- google "VW approved oil list 2015" - "www.anciravolkswagen.com/blogs/949/.../2015/.../Approved-Oil-List.pd..."

Ha ha ha! Still only a list of "oils that meet..." ignoring the fact that an American franchise dealer has decided to name a VW TSB as an approved list on their web site.

[vwcabriolet1971]

It's still an official VW bulletin.

[vwcabriolet1971]

Ha ha ha! Still only a list of "oils that meet..." ignoring the fact that an American franchise dealer has decided to name a VW TSB as an approved list on their web site.

It's still an official VW bulletin and a much more up to date one at that . Ha Ha.

[DMitch16]

It's still an official VW bulletin and a much more up to date one at that . Ha Ha.

Ha ha ha!! Can't get more up to date than this...1997 to 2016

READ: TECHNICAL SERVICE BULLETIN - AUDI * DeniaHauskauf.Com

TSB 17 15 57 2010043/14

All the standards listed are VWS.