VW MK7 wagon oil/OCI poll from FB

[TiGeo]

Ran a few polls over the last few days in the MK7 Sportwagen/Alltrack group. Results. Not suprising. LM wins (thank you LM marketing + FCP Euro Lifetime Return Guarantee) and most folks doing ~5K changes. Castrol in second makes sense, it's on the oil cap and has always been popular in VWs from my experience. Had about 200 participate. Many of these are enthusiasts w/modified cars (tuned, larger turbos, etc.). There was a "book says 10K so I do 10K" and of course a "I do no more than 3K" person as well but overall, most do reasonble changes with oils having the correct approvals. Nothing really more here, just interesting info/data for the BITOG Euro sub kollective to chew on.

Yes, I know I left an "n" out of Pennzoil and spelled it wrong, BITOG-pedantic comments incoming.

 

[fantastic]

Interesting to see what the VW collective says. Most liking that 3.1-5k interval.

 

[TiGeo]

Interesting to see what the VW collective says. Most liking that 3.1-5k interval.

Not suprising to me. 5K has been ground into many people like 3K was back in the day and of course that's a fine interval to use on a DI turbo car without much drama/a few a year for most and not that much $$ on what you can get at the store/FCP. I've done 20 changes over 6 years/110K miles and my average is ~5.4K with a ~3-9K range.

 

[Zee09]

What no Amsoil or Redline-Kendall

 

[The Critic]

I would have expected a stronger showing for Motul.

And no Amsoil?!

 

[Zee09]

No Triax?

 

[TiGeo]

Hold on kids....I only had a screen shot of the most frequent - OP updated with all options...come on now...you know I have them all or at least the ones that matter/folks in that would would have used/heard of!

 

[TiGeo]

No Triax?

"other"

 

[TiGeo]

I would have expected a stronger showing for Motul.

And no Amsoil?!

It's there...

 

[TiGeo]

What no Amsoil or Redline-Kendall

They are there...

 

[Vercingetorix]

Looks like Liqui Moly has the best bot.

 

[Zee09]

They are there...

I smell Edit fraud

 

[TiGeo]

I smell Edit fraud

dirty delete

 

[Zee09]

I'm calling for a 6 month suspension. Polls like this should not be tolerated....Bogus low quality polling

 

[TiGeo]

I'm calling for a 6 month suspension. Polls like this should not be tolerated....Bogus low quality polling

Ice luge oil races are next up.

 

[edyvw]

What is the correlation between this poll and testimonies of blue smoke from current GTI's?

 

[The Critic]

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Reminds me of the Castrol GTX fanboys in the 90's.

 

[Zee09]

Ice luge oil races are next up.

Calling Project Farm

 

[shortyb]

Looks like LM's "Made in Germany" so it's much better than anything else just cuz marketing is working well .

 

[slo town]

It looks like the people who responded to that poll take good care of their cars by using respectable fluids and reasonable OCIs. Good on them.

Scott