I only use Rotella, which is sold by Advance. No harm, no foul, not too expensive.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I gave up, I've been using Car Quest 5w40 synthetic in my Jetta, it tested > fine at 10,000 mile intervals, would probably be fine at 15k but this way I > change it spring and fall which is easy enough. Car Quest was bought by > Advance, I haven't stopped in to see if they're going to keep making the > oil, if they don't I'll use Rotella T6 which is the same price or a little > cheaper. I use this in most everything, the lawnmowers at home and at camp > plus the generator at camp. > The Golf has to have a super specific VW 505.01 spec oil of which I think > theres a Castrol (I forget, I've got a quart in the car) or I can order > Fuchs brand which IDParts can have at my house in 2 days for not much more > than M1... > -Curt > From: Curly McLain via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Curly McLain <126die...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 9:29 AM > Subject: [MBZ] Uh oh! Oil info > > We need to reach out to Larry. Our resident oil expert is AWOL. > Last notice his ISP was blocking list mail. commiecast, I think. He > was resisting using a gmail acct for the list. > > Unfortunately our M1 is no longer Herr Doktor Booth's M1! > > I came across this looking for centistoke to API equivalents: > > How do I know what motor oil is a Group IV (4) based PAO synthetic motor > oil? > As more and more large oil companies switched their "synthetic" motor > oils to the less expensive/more profitable Group III (3) base stocks > it has become much easier to identify which are PAO based true > synthetic. Of the large oil companies, only Mobil 1 Extended > Performance, as of this writing (12-16-2012), is still a PAO based > true synthetic. The rest, including regular Mobil 1 and Castrol Edge > have switched to the cheaper/more profitable Group III (3) petroleum > based "synthetic" motor oil. AMSOIL Synthetic Motor Oils are PAO > based true synthetic motor oils with the exception of the short oil > drain OE and XL synthetic motor oils sold at some Auto Parts Stores > and Quick Oil Change Centers. This leaves more than 20 PAO based true > synthetic motor oils manufactured and marketed by AMSOIL with only a > few Group III (3) based synthetic motor oils identified by the "OE" > and "XL" product name. > > http://www.upmpg.com/tech_articles/motoroil_viscosity/ > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
