What brand of oil do you use?

[vaggod]

Re: What brand of oil do you use?

I am paying $8.40 per liter for the 505.01 at the dealer.....Not really that high for a synth oil....Of course I would like to pay less!

The price of the Amsoil euro car formula is 9.85 a liter. However I'm working on a discount for newveedub members.

[Stonewall]

Re: What brand of oil do you use?

The price of the Amsoil euro car formula is 9.85 a liter. However I'm working on a discount for newveedub members.

Wow that makes me feel better for paying about $7 per litre for Delvac 1

[vaggod]

Re: What brand of oil do you use?

You get what you pay for.

[Stonewall]

Re: What brand of oil do you use?

You get what you pay for.

Can't really read that chart. I will have to have a chat with a good friend of mine who is a chemical engineer and deals with oils and engine wear all day and see what he things is the best. We talked briefly before about designing a secondard oil filter system using a 2 micron filter to clean the engine out of all particulates which cause engine falure more then anything else (well other then Barts crazy foot that is )

[RobG]

Re: What brand of oil do you use?

Where can Mobil Delvac be purchesed from?

[James]

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Well, according to that chart, the amsoil is well worth the $3 more a ltr. Count me in buddy

[Stonewall]

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Where can Mobil Delvac be purchesed from?

Brandon Petroleum
740-19th St SE
234-8954
They stocc it as I just bought some there today

[Gumby]

Re: What brand of oil do you use?

I know some of you know i work at a dealer... i'm NOT pushing castrol (i prefer mobil1) BUT i have seen a couple of problems with amsoil in our cars. On one he used amsoil since day one and at around 70000kms the rings siezed into the pistons (and took out the turbo). We sent it back to VW and they said it was an oil problem. We had another that chewed out turbos like crazy till he switched back to mobil1, since them no problems (over 500000kms on it). We have a tech working for us that came from GM and he had seen a few problems on GM products as well. It seems certain cars work well with Amsoil and some just don't like it. Remember both cases i saw were diesels. The thing i hate about it is it's like a "cult" (our amsoil is the best and that's all there is too it!!!) I have nothing against people that use it, in fact i have used it in my sportbike before. I'm sure i'll get thrashed for posting this... it's just what i have seen with my own eyes.

[R_Ethug]

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i use the dealer castrol syntec 5/40 when i first got my car i wanted to do the mobil1 0/40 but the dealers here told me i was nuts even though millions on vortex use it but i'm sure you all know how that is.. and since mobil1 doesn't have their 5/40 here in NA i stick with the syntec.. it works fine for how drive. My turbo has probably only glowed 3-5 times in a year so ya know..................

[vaggod]

Re: What brand of oil do you use?

I know some of you know i work at a dealer... i'm NOT pushing castrol (i prefer mobil1) BUT i have seen a couple of problems with amsoil in our cars. On one he used amsoil since day one and at around 70000kms the rings siezed into the pistons (and took out the turbo). We sent it back to VW and they said it was an oil problem. We had another that chewed out turbos like crazy till he switched back to mobil1, since them no problems (over 500000kms on it). We have a tech working for us that came from GM and he had seen a few problems on GM products as well. It seems certain cars work well with Amsoil and some just don't like it. Remember both cases i saw were diesels. The thing i hate about it is it's like a "cult" (our amsoil is the best and that's all there is too it!!!) I have nothing against people that use it, in fact i have used it in my sportbike before. I'm sure i'll get thrashed for posting this... it's just what i have seen with my own eyes.

So your saying because of the brand of oil used which meets all vw specs the pistion rings seized on to the pistons? Twice in two different cars? I find this highly unlikely , not only because I have never heard of any type of engine having the rings seize to the pistons but that your also saying this happened to two tdi engines which are nearly indescrutable.

Now the pistons and rings could "sieze up"if there wasn't enough oil or the wrong weight or the worng type of oil was used. But this wouldn't be the fault of the oil brand but of user incompentace. Same explaination for chewing through turbo's.

Amsoil can say it has the best oil as it is backed up with valid test data.


http://www.amsoil.com/performancetests/g1971/index.html

http://www.amsoil.com/performancetes..._vs_mobil1.htm

Which dealer do you work for?

[vaggod]

Re: What brand of oil do you use?

i use the dealer castrol syntec 5/40 when i first got my car i wanted to do the mobil1 0/40 but the dealers here told me i was nuts even though millions on vortex use it but i'm sure you all know how that is.. and since mobil1 doesn't have their 5/40 here in NA i stick with the syntec.. it works fine for how drive. My turbo has probably only glowed 3-5 times in a year so ya know..................

Go to a porsche dealer to get mobil 1 5-40 as it comes factory in them. However you will have to fork over about 14 dollars a liter for it.

[Gumby]

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Ahhhh... see i knew i would get the "our test results prove it" speach! I know on paper it's good oil but it did not like these two engines i saw!

[R_Ethug]

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nick i phoned SCFC about the mobil 1 the factory fill is 0/40 actually unless they changed it and yea they quoted me like 15bucks/litre

[vaggod]

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nick i phoned SCFC about the mobil 1 the factory fill is 0/40 actually unless they changed it and yea they quoted me like 15bucks/litre

sorry ryan I swear it used to be a 5w-40. Not cheap though eh?

[dubspeedGTi]

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well I ended up using mobil 1 0w40 euro car formula. I made sure it matched the vw equavlant oils in my manual. I also used a VW dealer filter I bought 4 at a time. This seemed to work good I have only put about 300 miles on since the oil change but no problems yet.