RE: What Oil to Use in a 16V and 8V?

["Joel Leclerc" <tofunit@yahoo.com>]

Weight is 10W40.

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From: thescirocco@juno.com [mailto:thescirocco@juno.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 3:50 PM
To: tofunit@yahoo.com
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: What Oil to Use in a 16V and 8V?


On Sat, 26 May 2001 14:45:33 -0400 "Joel Leclerc" <tofunit@yahoo.com>
writes:
> I use in my 16v 87 Agip synt 2000... Had use it also in my
> GTI 86 8v... Always had good result with it since 10 years.

What weight is it?
 
> BTW: I'm used to change it every 3000km but last year one
> mecanic guy told me that changing it too often, like 3000km,
> is not that good for the engine... And I'm not agree with this
> since in my head I think that when the oil is black(dirty)
> it means that it's degrated and so not good protection anymore!
> 
> Who's right?
> 
> /Joel 87 16v

You both are...

You can go longer than 3000km with synthetic oil, I'd say 5-6000km
easily.

When the oil turns black, the carbon, and whatever else slips past the
rings and seals, 
is bad for the lubrication properties of the oil, but it's still usable. 

Unless you have a $10,000 engine or something, THEN I'd change the oil
when it got dark...
Then again that should be towards the end of the 3000 mile oil change
interval, because
if the engine is in good condition, the oil doesn't turn black so
quickly. 

I change my 15-w40/20-w50 dino oil, the equivalent of every 4800-5000km,
and it seems to work...

Peter - http://thescirocco.com -  Bear, Delaware                         
                                                                         
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