Recent content by scrllock

Manuals can be bought on erwin, or found on other more VW-specific forums. This place is pretty strict about anything more specific than that. I have posted excerpts on other threads recently showing the 502/504/508 interchange, but in general you can use 504 in just about any modern VW engine...

Look at a newer repair manual, 504 wasn't released in 2015.

300V also doesn't have approval. And as mentioned, redline, other driven products, etc. Strange decision. 0w30 LL is mid-saps, API CF. 0w30 A3/B4 is the API SL product. FCP is not selling the latter (the one you probably actually want, or at least the one @edyvw frequently touts). Also a...

No, the FCP one is mid-SAPS. The API SL bottle you've shown is the full SAPS product (not LL or K).

Unless you can transfer the fluid from the original container to your bleeder in vacuum, there's always "moisture" but it's negligible compared to what the fluid is going to experience in actual service over time. That said, the Motive stuff is junk these days and getting replacement parts is...

Be nice if they sold the 502 0w30, guess I'll ask..

The testing on that video showed very little wear even with ESP 0w30 (on a duramax 3.0), to me the main thing would be cost. Unless availability is better out there, I wouldn't spend close to double on the price chasing 1-3ppm of wear metals. It is obviously a really good product, but Walmart...

Grade (kv100) is meaningless compared to HTHS. The 0w30 will shear (slightly) below 3.5 HTHS whereas even KRL, the 0w40 is well above the 3.5 mark. So if you want to absolutely positively not have to worry about shear in a high output engine, the 0w40 does provide that. The downside these...

liquimoly is a joke. most of their products are either snake oil or very overpriced (mostly group 3, hydrocracked oil, on par with $4-5/qt products made in the US but with "it's german" markup). motul makes some nice stuff, some mediocre stuff. nothing i think is worth the extra cost for street...

It's mostly Group III. Which is fine. But the ester thing is mostly marketing. I wouldn't pay the double motul/nissan markup for it.

Mobil 1 FS 0w40. Cheap, widely available, high quality. VQ engines aren't picky but it's the factory fill for the VR38.

Difference in what way? The oil is very easy to pump at that temperature, "less viscous" doesn't mean anything. Bimmerworld is a vendor that exists to sell products, mostly to owners with more money than sense. It behooves them to sell both the "OEM" 10w60 oil as well as the "thin" 15w50 to...

Pour points are irrelevant to cold flow and "penetrating the bearing surfaces" is just made up garbage. This is just bimmerworld wanting to sell another SKU, there's no real reason to use a 15w50 over a 10w60 except reduced VI spread.

I don't think you'll notice a major difference compared to something like Mobil 1 FS 0w40 (which is still $2-3 cheaper here) but it's good.

some 502 oils are lower end (e.g. castrol 5w40) compared to other oils. there is nothing explicitly worse about 502, but since 504 does add some additional test requirements, you generally see better oils in that category (Though there are 502 oils which likely exceed 504 reqs, aside from SAPS...