Maxlife 505.01

[ourfamo4]

Today while buying wheel cleaner, at Advance Auto Parts. I took my normal trip to the oil isle to look at Maxlife Syn10/30. I have the 10/40 dino in my 99 Passat 30V to see if it helps with my camshaft tensioner leaks. To my suprise the 10/30 which I knew was VW 502/505 is also 505.01. I thought a select few oils were 505.01 and I would never think Valvoline Maxlife 10/30 would; considering no of the durablends have meet this spec. So maybe once my stash of Havoline HM and Gold GC are gone this might be my new oil of choice. P.S. would PZ Plat. 5/50 be ok to run in a N.E. Ohio winter ?

99 Passat 30V,116k and counting
98 Golf 2.0l, 152k and counting.

 

[Clyde65]

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Originally posted by ourfamo4:
P.S. would PZ Plat. 5/50 be ok to run in a N.E. Ohio winter ?

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[Triple_Se7en]

I never seen or heard of Platinum 5W-50?

I thought Castrol Syntec was the only one doing the 5W-50 thing????

 

[Dominic]

You're not going crazy. I recently wrote Valvoline since my dad bought a new TDI and he told me 2 months ago the new "SM" rated Maxlife synthetic is 505.01 certified. They're working on the Synpower to meet it.

 

[schwartr88]

maxlife

 

[TallPaul]

Maxlife: King of Group III synthetics.

 

[ourfamo4]

Here is a photo of the 5w/50, I think it been replaced by the PP Euro oils. I'll end up running it in the Golf next spring.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/[email protected]/detail?.dir=b0e3&.dnm=9eb7re2.jpg&.src=ph

 

[CosmicFlash]

I recently put in MaxLife Synthetic 5W 30 in my 99' Passat 1.8T with 131,000 miles. It too has the cam tensioner leak. After a few months and few thousand miles it seems to using a bit less oil.

This is supposed to be a very good oil. I'm going from the Synpower 5W40 to this one.