Recent content by Ganton

then is 502.00 their (VW's) numerical code for a full synthetic? My owners manual from 2003 states 502.00 but says nothing about synthetic.

Mine's not a TDI, runs on Premium unleaded.

Has 63,488 two-owner miles on it, and I've had it since 23,700.

A few yrs. ago, a service writer at a local VW dealership had his tech. put Castrol full synthetic in my '03 New Beetle's Turbo 1.8 engine. They had been putting Castrol GTX 5W30 dino up to that time w/o any probs. whatsoever. When I asked why they switched oil on me, the service guy said...

I'm a "newbie," so am still learning (quite a lot) by reading this site. I have a '91 Chev 1500 reg. cab pickup with 126K actual miles on the 4.3L V-6 motor and have most recently been running Supertech dino 10W30 with the Supertech filter, but I've been getting a good wiff of blue smoke on cold...

Anyone who posts on this board see anything adverse about my using Wally World Supertech synthetic 5W30 in my '01 Mustang Cobra which calls for 5W20? I feel that 5W20 is much too thin for my "mental comfort" in this engine. I'm an "older guy" (age 60) who rarely drives "hard," but only on...

Not all. I know that Penzoil 5W20 isn't and I just discontinued using it in my '01 Mustang and am switching to a 5W30 full synthetic.

Why do the auto manufacturers (or at least the ones I encounter) say, in their vehicle owner's manuals, to change oil at, let's say, 7.5K miles and not change the filter until some ludricrous interval like, for example, 15K? Why would you want to put new oil thru an old, "contaminated" filter as...