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Originally posted by Paranoil:
1) It's just about the most expensive (street car) oil you can buy over here. Only difficult to obtain oils, such as Redline, are more expensive.
2) There appears to still be some reluctance by the general motoring public to accept xW-30 oils, especially in high performace engines
Same applies to Poland. Most people you ask will tell you that Xw-30 is like water and they'd never put it in their engines.
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On the Polish internet car forums they think I'm crazy for running it in a chipped turbo engine.
A few years ago over here there was also a big ruckus about SLX sludging up certain Toyota engines. At least that's how the news got spread through the grapevine. In the end, it turned out it was some manufacturing defect on those engines which along with poor fuel quality in Poland caused it, but at that point, the damage to SLX's reputation was already done. To recover from this fiasco, Castrol decided to reformulate the oil and started selling it under "SLX LongTec" name to differentiate it from the old SLX.
At this point it's still mostly a shop/dealer product. If you go for a scheduled maintenance to an Audi/VW or Toyota dealer, chances are they'll use SLX LongTec. Aside from that, due to price, most people don't buy it on their own. Besides, they prefer higher grades, so if the choice is betw. SLX and TWS (10w-60), and the price is about the same, they'll go for the latter. The "thicker is better" myth dies slowly, kind of like the "3K OCI" myth in the US.