At around 4000km I did a break in oil change and switched over to liquimoly and noticed my oil regularly stays at 90-95C and only goes to 104 if driven hard.
I want to say it was 7 quarts of synthetic (N54), and if I was buying I used either BMW branded oil or Liqui Moly (at the recommendation of my friendly local BMW centric indy mechanic)
Walmart sells the Castrol full synthetic eurocar recommended by Audi.
Just buy liquimolly. Best oils I’ve ever put in my cars.
Just to let everyone know, VW/Audi recently dumped Castrol and they now roll with Mobil 1.
Liqui Moly only, imo…not worth the risk to save a couple bucks.
You could splurge out on Liquimoly if you want la crème de la crème however.
I use liqui Molly 5w 40 and love it the 5w40 is euro spec not sure the 5w30 is. Depending on your car though you could mostly likely use 5w40 and get great results
Liqui molly is good never tried apex but I run Mobil super and it runs very smooth
Ughh. How did I miss that! I thought I was just saving $5 a liter for the same thing. I am so annoyed with myself. :banghead: I just pulled up the specs for both and indeed the Synthoil has a viscosity index of 171 vs 180 for the Leichtlauf. Also the NOACK for Synthoil is 12.9% vs 10.0% for Leichtlauf. From what I can tell the 12.9% NOACK of Synthoil is what doesn't allow it to have the VW 502 00 approval.
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