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Title: Best oil
Post by: e-lustrious on 12 February 2004, 21:55

This may have come up before but I couldn't be a***d going through all the pages...What is the best oil to use in my 8v.... :-\
    Cheers.

Title: Re:Best oil
Post by: turbo on 13 February 2004, 01:31

anything which is api, acea approved!
normaly says api sj or sl / cf..... acea A3/B3

valvoline maxlife---- semi synthetic.
valvoline durablend----semi synthetic.
valvoline synpower------ fully synthetic.
castrol rs ------fully synthetic
mobil 1-----fully synthetic
vw quantum synta gold----fully synthetic.

all of theses oils are very good....
i use valvoline maxlife........
on the valvoline website there are feedback from people who have used just valvoline in there cars and have got very high over (263.000) miles from there engines! so i neednt say anymore!
but most top synthetics are the same quality and there is no difference in engine wear tests!

mobil 1 vs valvoline synpower and it said on the net that synpower was better!
ive alwaysed used good oil in the gti and its on 197000.......
if it doesnt have api sj/cf acea A3/B3 on the back of the bottle it isnt any good!

abit like formula1 supermarket oils! 20w/50 nasty oil!

Title: Re:Best oil
Post by: cheech on 13 February 2004, 09:11

Try putting in some slick 50 man, that stuff is the sh!t ;D

Title: Re:Best oil
Post by: GTI16vGaz on 13 February 2004, 11:22

Does any1 now exactly how much oil to put in a mk2 GOLF GTI16v.
My dipstick has been damaged and i'm not sure on the reading it may be wrong.

If i know the amount 2ltr etc... then i'll put that in..

Cheers,
Gaz

Title: Re:Best oil
Post by: cheech on 13 February 2004, 12:00

To fill it from empty i thik its about 4.5L...it says somewhere in the haynes manual if you have one?

Title: Re:Best oil
Post by: m4nesh on 13 February 2004, 20:54

I use Syntha Silver does the job and its only ?13 from the VW garage so its relatively cheap and it conforms to all those ABCDEF tests that vwsystems was on about in an earlier post 8)

Title: Re:Best oil
Post by: turbo on 14 February 2004, 01:34

its the same as the 8 v
with oil filter change 4.0 litres
without filter change 3.5 litres

from min to max on dip stick is 1 litre!

Title: Re:Best oil
Post by: VeeDubGTI16v on 14 February 2004, 13:46

vwsystems are you sponsored by valvoline?

Title: Re:Best oil
Post by: turbo on 15 February 2004, 00:10

 ;D ;D ;Dtheses valvoline questions  ;D

no i'm notnotnot! ;D i rave on about it because its good....good at stopping leaks and making a 197000 mile car go like the clappers! ;D
i'm sure this oil is the only thing keeping the engine from falling apart!!