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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...

Great video for a hobby-ist like myself; clear explanations and commentary. It is nice to see only a minimal amount of Lake Derangement Syndrome in the comments , as well. Although to some, any feasible testing regiment is not good enough and they’ll say “but it didn’t include XYZ….test”. I...

It’s a feature, sir, not a bug.

Muh E92 M3?!?!?!

^ not unexpected. A couple of the posts did sharpen the concept in my mind. Funny enough, he referenced a Reddit post when explaining the differences, so there's that.

If I'm understanding him correctly, his argument is that the variable speed oil pump was put in the car specifically for 0W20. I totally get what you're saying but I'm trying to think of how to articulate that a variable speed oil pump won't know/care about 0W20 vs 0W30 which the Golf R/Audi S3...

*Disclaimer: I'm in no danger of ever being mistaken for an engineer* I was talking to a fellow Mk8 (2022+) GTI owner online the other night, and the subject drifted to oil selection. When I told him that I'm using Mobil 1 ESP 0W30 for a number of reasons every 5K he replied that I was in...

Yes. Our Parts Dept ordered this for me, so I'm going to presume that it is whatever their current version is. I read on our intranet that VW/Audi switched to Castrol as their OEM supplier, so I'm interested if they are still using ESP until that contract ends at whatever date, or maybe this...

Thank you, Glenda! I did this exact thing when I sent it in on Saturday.

Can someone directly me to the post in all 23 pages thus far of someone saying "Supertech for 25K mile OCI would do the same". lol. On a more serious note, this is a great experiment to see run out. Bravo.

Thanks, all. Will send this in tomorrow.