Recent content by cammyfive79

@OVERKILL I think I’ve asked you a similar question in the past but if you’re cutting back from 15k (which you feel was too much) to 10k-ish intervals, wouldn’t ESPx4 0W20 give similar results?

Well said!

Indeed! I'm actually impressed it sounds this good for a turbo 4.

Some great life changes and a much much shorter commute (70 miles a day vs 4 miles a day now) and a company car led to me trading my 2025 GTI for a 2026 R. I'm no longer an employee of VW but was when I got the GTI and a fantastic employee discount so I was break even after a year. Obviously...

I had a 2016 GS350 F Sport that was a fantastic car. Personally, I prefer the looks of the '13-'15 cars as mine and the latter cars have the weird Predator looking grill. Aside from middling fuel economy (low to mid 20s on the freeway) it's a great car that makes great noises and if you get...

Got it. Pricing for me would be “same-ish” for this vs ESP so just curious if anything from this VOA stood out in a good or not good way.

I should have worded my question better. I chose ESP bc the feedback here is that it is clean running and a PAO/Ester base. Why would one run this oil if it was the same price and widely available vs say ESP or another 504/507 forum favorite.

Dealership pricing aside, if this formulation is unique, why would one choose it over anything else? Any specific benefits or drawbacks?

I have enough Mobil 1 ESP 0W30 that I bought last month to get me through 30k miles of 5k OCIs; I was just curious how the OEM branded stuff looked.

Seems to be!

Indeed. https://www.castrol.com/en_us/united-states/home/about-castrol/newsroom/vw-audi-select-castrol.html

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Interesting. I just posted a VOA of the VW/Audi brand black bottle 0W30 that seems to reconcile with their partnership with Castrol; good bit of Titanium in it.

Seems so! All of “1” Moly, too.

I bought this fresh quart bottle from our VW Parts Dept maybe a month and a half ago. It was shaken vigorously before a sample was poured into the sample container kit purchased via Amsoil for Oil Analyzers Curious what the crowd here thinks. I definitely did not mark the brand as Amsoil so...