Hello,
Long time lurker of this forum but this is my first post. I am looking for an oil for my new-to-me VW Touareg TDI. It has a 3.0 V6 diesel with 12k miles. Because of the diesel scandal VW will be extending the powertrain warranty to 10yr/120k - therefore I will be sticking with the 504/507 spec even though I feel a 5w40 would be better in this application.
I have narrowed it down to two choices - Motul X-CLEAN+ 5w30 or Liqui-Moly Top Tec 4200 5w30. Both being 507 oils they are extremely similar in spec and the same price. The Motul is advertised as 100% synthetic while the Liqui-Moly is not. I am not sure if the rules in France are the same as Germany where it must be PAO/Ester to be labeled as synthetic.
From what i've seen the 3.0 V6 TDI is much harder on oil than the 4-cylinder engines. I planned on setting the OCI at 7500mi.
Here are the spec sheets for the two oils:
https://pim.liqui-moly.de/pidoc/P000323/3706-TopTec42005W-30-31.0-en.pdf
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/motul-production2/images/product_descriptions/technical_data_sheets/55/8100_X-clean__5W-30_%28GB%29.pdf?1484040375
Thank you for your insight
Long time lurker of this forum but this is my first post. I am looking for an oil for my new-to-me VW Touareg TDI. It has a 3.0 V6 diesel with 12k miles. Because of the diesel scandal VW will be extending the powertrain warranty to 10yr/120k - therefore I will be sticking with the 504/507 spec even though I feel a 5w40 would be better in this application.
I have narrowed it down to two choices - Motul X-CLEAN+ 5w30 or Liqui-Moly Top Tec 4200 5w30. Both being 507 oils they are extremely similar in spec and the same price. The Motul is advertised as 100% synthetic while the Liqui-Moly is not. I am not sure if the rules in France are the same as Germany where it must be PAO/Ester to be labeled as synthetic.
From what i've seen the 3.0 V6 TDI is much harder on oil than the 4-cylinder engines. I planned on setting the OCI at 7500mi.
Here are the spec sheets for the two oils:
https://pim.liqui-moly.de/pidoc/P000323/3706-TopTec42005W-30-31.0-en.pdf
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/motul-production2/images/product_descriptions/technical_data_sheets/55/8100_X-clean__5W-30_%28GB%29.pdf?1484040375
Thank you for your insight