Castrol is fine. It’s literally the manufacture recommended brand
Have also used castrol once on my alltrack and I use castrol in all the cars I work on/ take care of at home and never had a problem with it.
I've used Castrol in all my VWs and have never had any issue.
Other Euro brands such as Castrol or Motul are also fine choices
I used Motul and it made shifting noticeably better
I used the Kawasaki 10w-40 for the first year I rode mine, it would always have an odd mis shift here and there. Last year I used Motul 7100 and it made a huge difference, way less shifting issues
I always use Castrol on both my Honda and Volkswagen.
If you are considering an oil additive, best practice is to instead use higher quality oil (I like motul) and select one which matches your use case.
Last oil change (Sep 2022, 100,094 miles), I used Castrol Edge 0W-40.
I was using the OEM Castrol 5w40 and recently switched to Castrol European Formula 0w40. I found that I had the oil level drop a bit (oil burn perhaps) with the latter. For the current change I went back to OE Castrol and will see if things go back to no level drop.
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