What is Longlife oil?

[Hartside]

Car just serviced, despite being on Time and Distance, they put in Longlife Oil, which going by other posts is the norm. I've got a top up litre of Castrol Edge in the boot, will this be compatible with what they put in?

Got to say I question whether they changed the oil as the car only has 3500 miles on it. I expected to see clean golden oil but it doesn't seem so. Is longlife a darker colour? The filter has been changed for sure, as I have a previous under bonnet photo but jury's out on the oil 

[Hartside]

It's a petrol GTI

[Lewy]

Reference the compatibility you'll need to check the code on the back of the Edge bottle to see if VW recommend it, and if I remember correctly, it is a little darker than the norm.

[Hartside]

Thanks for the quick answer. The Edge is VW compatible, just wondered if it's compatible with the oil they used for the service (if that makes sense)

[Snoopy]

Yes it is. VW dealers even sell the castrol stuff from the parts department. Just make sure you have the correct version of the castrol edge as theres more than one version. It should say on the label on the front for audi/VW long life or something like that.
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[Hartside]

I got it from the dealer when I took delivery of the car. Checked it over and it's the right one. Still not sure they changed the oil though 

[Hyperspace]

Longlife oil is any oil approved by Volksawgen to standard 504.00/507.00 and is designed for variable service intervals. Non-longlife oil is VW 502.00/505.00 and is meant for fixed service intervals.

504/507 oil can be used for both Longlife or time & distance service regimes, whereas 502/505 oil should only be used for the latter.

See here for more information.

[F17BAD]

Reference the compatibility you'll need to check the code on the back of the Edge bottle to see if VW recommend it, and if I remember correctly, it is a little darker than the norm.

Im using Longlife 3 in mine (Gold bottle), iv got the audi S3 engine in my mk 3 GTI, did the oil last week. If i check the dipstick and wipe it on some kitchen roll (as i did today), mine looks golden colour

Hope this helps

P.S, if they have changed the filter, id put money on it they have changed the oil too 

[Hartside]

Hmmmm, just checked it again and took a photo. I reckon it's on it's old oil and they haven't changed it, what everyones thoughts. I've done 10 miles since they were supposed to have changed it:

[Steve30]

If the filter has been changed ? Are you sure the filter was done ? Reason I say it is because you can't change the filter with out the oil ? Looking at the oil on the tissue it's to black , if it was me I would dump the car back on there forecourt tell them to change it properly !