My mother's 2003 New Beetle is over due for an oil change. The car has the 2.0L 8v engine with only just over 43000 kms on it and has been serviced by VW up until now, but the warranty just finished and I thought I would do the oil change myself instead of having her pay huge amounts of $$$ for a VW tech to change the oil. Now I'm a Honda guy and I don't know what synthetic oils go well in this motor. What synthetic oil should i put in this car that can handle the severe Canadian winters and also meets VW 502 00 specs? It mentions I can use either a 5w-40 or 5w30 in this engine... I was thinking about maybe using Shell Rotella T syn diesel 5w-40 or Valvoline Synpower 5w30?
