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Im replacing mine soon...though since switching to 5-40 oil (as per recent VW specs) my oil consumption is far less than before.
Pros: oil consumption far less
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Passat
Mileage: 207000 km
My experience with oil consumption - 5W30 VW - First oil used by me in this car - 2000km - 200 ml added 5W40 Fuchs Titan Race Pro S - Now in the engine - 1000km - Same level as it was at the revision
Pros: Same level at revision
Cons: 200 ml added
Vehicle:
Seat Leon
Mileage: 1000 km
Once the oil temp reads the temp number, you're all set to do what you please.
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Fuchs Silkolene. Good stuff.
Pros: good stuff
My 15 S4 has seen 3 oils in <10k miles. The factory fill was Fuchs. Dealer first change was PP Euro and my latest change the other week was with M1. I've run M1 0w40 Euro in my B5 forever and have had 0 issues with it. Saw no reason to not continue running it in the B8.
Pros: no issues
Vehicle:
Audi S4
Mileage: 16093 km
I've changed my TDI's oil every 10K miles since it was new. It currently has 330K miles on it and runs like a watch.
Pros: runs like a watch
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 330000 km
Dark oil is actually a good thing believe it or not. It means that the oil is doing it's job and holding all the contaminants in suspension. In fact if my oil would look clear at the oil change I'd be very concerned and most probably change the brand.
Pros: oil doing its job
Cons: dark oil
Well, just got back the test results on for our oil analysis, here are the comments: " Nothing showed up in this sample that's too much of a surprise, though aluminum and copper are perhaps a little higher than expected. New parts wearing in tend to leave a lot of metal in the oil and that's what we suspect is going on here. You ran this oil pretty long for factory oil (we realize you were probably only following the oil life monitor). So that's why aluminum and copper are on the high side. No matter--everything should improve now that you've changed this fill. The TBN read 1.9, getting low but still okay. Potassium is from the EGR system. "
Pros: TBN still okay
Cons: aluminum and copper high
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 9979 km
We had 50700 VW spec oil in for 4,000 miles on the oil and 4,700 miles on the engine. The iron wear rate was about 15 ppm/1000 miles. The Longlife III oil did have impressive viscosity holding charictaristics. I did not care for the way the oil film of the 50700 wetted surfaces, it fisheyed on plastics.
Pros: impressive viscosity holding
Cons: oil film fisheyed
Mileage: 4000 km
Hmm... I just took the car in for its MoT and although it passed, they noticed that the exhaust was smoky and that oil level had been overfilled. The oil was last changed at the car's 40,000 mile service by the same VW dealer and on the invoice they've listed 9 litres of oil.
Cons: smoky exhaust, oil overfilled
Mileage: 64373 km
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