I have been told the same by Blackstone on my cars, though I still do it once a year given the cost is <$75. However, I do follow their advice on intervals, after once being a 5,000 mile interval guy. On all three of our cars, using Castrol Edge 5W-20, I've repeatedly gotten analysis that tells me that, at 7,500-10,000 miles, the oil is still performing as intended.
I've had good luck with Castrol for several years in two WRXs.
If your interval is 30,000km / 20k mi (2Y) then you should use the higher spec VW 503 / 504 (left page) if you have the 15,000km / 10k mi (1Y) interval then you can use the lower grade VW 501 / 502 oil on the right page.
I run Leichtlauf 5W-40 on my B7 A4 2.0T; just hit \~250K km. Used to run Castrol and Motul but as I started doing my own oil changes, switched to the LiquiMoly stuff. Oil consumption issues gone, no complaints from me.
My 3.0T doesn't seem to care one way or another what gets put into, it all seems to act similar. I have liqui moly molygen 5w40 in it now because...My 5.2 absolutely hates Mobil 1, Castrol Edge and Valvoline Syntec. Burn off/deposit rate of liquid moly molygen or leichtlauf seems to be about half of the other 3 I've tried, so I'm just going to stick with that until I see a reason to change.
Yes, liqui moly great german quality, can recommend
LiquiMoly Leichtlauf 5W-40. (blue bottle). It’s got great anti friction properties. Using it for past 40K miles. No issues.
I always use Castrol, good quality oil won't hurt the engine and is just slightly more expensive than off-brands.
I run Liquid Molly in my Audi SQ5, great stuff for a high performance engine.
I've noticed going from cheap synthetic 5W-30 to Liquimoly 5W-40 seemed to help a little with my intermittent light issues.
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