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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: willni on 28 October 2021, 15:44
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Out of curiosity I want to see how many people stick to VW's word that synthetic oil stays good for extended miles/time, or who believes fresh oil reduces stress on the engine internals.
I'm every 6k miles or 1 Year which ever is first and yes I've had 3-4 oil changes in a year before.
If you want an option added let me know, I've just added the most common for now.
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Whenever the car tells me it needs changing. Modern synthetic oils mean that it doesn't need changing prematurely any more.
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I do around 8k miles a year so just annually, easy to remember that way.
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I am set up for once a year or 15,000km. I usually change it every 12,000km (myself) with good quality oil and oem filter. Always a bottom drain.
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Oil is a car's lifeblood. Every year for me and I'm only doing about 4k miles per annum.
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Every 6 months with oem filter - annual service and interim by me. Do about 8k miles annually.
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Annual VW change which has meant less than 5k per year.
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I don’t like to spend money on servicing so just change my car instead. :whistle:
Anyway, it’s annually for me. Servicing that is.
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If you want an option added let me know, I've just added the most common for now.
You need to add a 6 month option for me, main dealer service once a year and REVO dealer oil n filter 6 months in between.
I only do about 6k a year but it is tuned so peace of mind for me.
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Out of curiosity I want to see how many people stick to VW's word that synthetic oil stays good for extended miles/time, or who believes fresh oil reduces stress on the engine internals.
I think both these statements are true- modern oils degrade only very slowly over time, but fresh oil is better.
I do around 7k annually in the golf- an annual service is sufficient imo.
So what should you do with an older engine doing low mileage and with modern oils? I will be doing my 3rd oil change in 2 years and 5k miles in my 32 year old Pug.
Probably too much, but it makes me feel good!
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I think both these statements are true- modern oils degrade only very slowly over time, but fresh oil is better.
I do around 7k annually in the golf- an annual service is sufficient imo.
So what should you do with an older engine doing low mileage and with modern oils? I will be doing my 3rd oil change in 2 years and 5k miles in my 32 year old Pug.
Probably too much, but it makes me feel good!
Good thing you brought it up, as this week I changed the oil & filter in the mk5 which was 12 months old but it only covered 500 miles, the oil was very black though so I'm glad I did it. Even used my Spendlocal card to pay for it so it was free!
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Yeah, mine is black when I’ve changed it, though it looks pretty clean on the dipstick.
How many miles on your mk5?
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Yeah, mine is black when I’ve changed it, though it looks pretty clean on the dipstick.
How many miles on your mk5?
27k, due it's mot tomorrow :smiley:
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Wow, barely run in then! Sounds fantastic.
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Along the same lines as preventative oil changes what does everybody think about using injector cleaner regularly?
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Wow, barely run in then! Sounds fantastic.
It was always on my must have list so it gets babied a bit too much haha
Along the same lines as preventative oil changes what does everybody think about using injector cleaner regularly?
For anyone that runs premium fuel (97+) I don’t think it’s necessary, the fuel has cleaning additives in it. Although I did periodically use a bit of Millers EcoMax in the common rail diesel GTD and it was on BP Ultimate.
Either way it does no harm anyway, I know a lot of boys in the south of Ireland use the octane boosters for the petrols but they only get 95 octane down there.
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Oil every and filter 6 months irrespective of mileage, currently on 12,400 in3 years.
Interested in the injection cleaner - might read up in that (though I only ever user Shell V-Max at 99 RON)
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Once a year, which is about 9k.
'Long life' 2 year/24k servicing was a terrible idea by VAG, plenty of blocked oil strainers on the 20v/TFSI's, but yearly/12k servicing is more than enough.
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Along the same lines as preventative oil changes what does everybody think about using injector cleaner regularly?
Interesting point. I have just used some on my mk6 gti as it has had to be filled with 95 Octane for the last few fills because that is all that was available. It is on 88k and subjectively it seems to have improved the consumption. May have been the oil and filter change just done though? Not a regular user of injector cleaner.