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Offline stealthwolf

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Re: top up oil
« Reply #10 on: 20 March 2009, 20:55 »
Quote from: mark.w on 20 March 2009, 20:10
erk. just had a look on the bottle i've got in the garage and it does say approved for VW, Merc and BM.  :sad:

Have a read of this: clicky

Just because it says "approved for VW" means jack$hit.

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It is simply down to the wording on the bottle.  If it says something like 'approved by Volkswagen/Audi to VW 506.01 standard', then the oil will have to have been formally submitted to Volkswagen Germany and undergo VWs own in-house stringent tests.  But if they use some kind of weasel words, such as 'meets', 'complies with', 'suitable for' - then phrases like those don't actually mean anything - but the one thing absolutely certain about those kinds of phrases - they will NOT have been formally tested by VW.  Mobil are particularly guilty of using those kinds of words.  Look at a bottle of Mobil 1 0w40, and it will list a whole shed load of VW standards which it claims to 'meet', yet look on VWs own master lists, and you will be lucky if it actually complies with just one!  Virtually all the US based oils are like that.
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Re: top up oil
« Reply #11 on: 21 March 2009, 06:56 »
Quote from: bacillus on 20 March 2009, 20:48
Quote from: mark.w on 20 March 2009, 20:10

erk. just had a look on the bottle i've got in the garage and it does say approved for VW, Merc and BM.  :sad:

Does it say that it conforms to VW 502 standard?

So if the bottle says "approved to VW 502.00/505.00 (01/97)" can I assume that will be the correct oil for the mkV gti and wont
fook my engine?
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