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7500 miles religiously, including filter every time. Full synthetic 5-30 Castrol.
Pros: religiously, full synthetic
Mileage: 12070 km
I buy Castrol edge and Mazda oil filter off Amazon.
I HIGHLY recommend 5k oil changes with a quality synthetic oil and factory oil filters. There may be others that are OK, but you are sure to have a good filter if you use a factory filter. Stay away from brands like Fram and anything from the quicky oil change places. The filters they use a not good.
Pros: quality, good filter
Cons: Fram not good
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Tiguan
I've been very surprised by how easy the Golf has been to work on so far, actually. Oil changes are super easy because the filter is a cartridge on the top of the engine, reservoirs are easy to reach and the battery doesn't require anything else to be removed to replace.
Pros: super easy oil changes
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
a 5qt Castrol edge 0w-20 container is $19. + $8 for a filter .. $30 every 5K miles is cheap imo..
Pros: cheap, good price
Mileage: 5000 km
I use factory filters and 0w40 Castrol (German one) when it’s on sale for $4.99 a qt. I too have 100k on my 2015 gsw 5MT and runs great I been using that oil since new.
Pros: runs great, since new
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 160934 km
I just completed my first oil change on this car and it was a breeze compared to my MK5 R32. We have a bone stock 2018 SE AWD and I didn't even need to get the car on jack stands. Oil Filter, VW P/N 06L115562B
Pros: easy oil change
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Tiguan
Part number: 06L115562B
I changed out the factory fill today at 2,347 miles. I could not find any VW 502 oil in 0w30 locally, so I used Valvoline MST 5w40 which is certified for VW 502, so no warranty concerns. I also used an OEM VW filter which was 15 bucks delivered also on line, but I hope to find those locally for a bit less in the future. I could see small shiny specs of debris in the creases of the old filter, which is why I (and many folks) don't like to run factory fill oil very long.
Pros: OEM quality
Cons: expensive
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Passat
Mileage: 2347 km
Das original VW öl bekommst du für 10€/l auf ebay und den ölfilter wahrscheinlich für um die 10€.
Pros: günstig auf ebay
Cons: massiv überteuert
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Me too, so I went back to the stock size filter and the issue improved.
Cons: caused startup rattle
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Part number: 068 115 561B
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