Oil recommendations please?!

[golfgti818]

An engine thats had oil changes at correct intervals or even better more regularly, should not suffer from the gunge that will block it up after a flush. Without flushing you dont dislodge it all and it will only get worse with more neglect. But when flushing you are actually trying to dislodge these build ups and they tend to end up where you dont want them, oil galleries etc. Regular oil changes on an engine that has previously been allowed to run over schedule is better than flushing as the new oil isnt intended to try and clean up gunk from missed oil changes.

[monzablue16v]

So it's more a don't do it if you don't know how well and often the old oil changes were. OK well I have fsh so should be ok thanks for the explanation.

[Rhyso]

Just a quick question (sorry to hi-jack abit) but wot oil would you recommend for my humble 1.6 Driver?? The VW stuff or does anything go!!?? lol

Cheers

Rhys

[gstar-dubworld]

On most of our customer VW's we supply and use Synta Silver & Gold, on the older cars you have an option for using both and also very dependant on the customers choice.

Some of our customer prefer fully synthetic.

Our demo car runs Royal Purple 20/50w full race synthetic oil for the summer and then 15/40w for the colder months, both oils have reduced the oil drive temperature by up to 10c in some cases, although the thicker oil will run hotter then the lighter oil.

We provide engine flushes on most older cars now, and to date we have had no problems, we also recommend to all our customer that the oil is changes every 5k miles, a better policy or insurance then the VW service interval recommendations.

Also to reply to the 1.6 Driver question, Synta Silver with a genuine filter should be fine for the EZ coded engine, hope this helps.