Hey guys,
Bit of a lurker, I just wanted to get some opinions on Oil suggestions for my golf. There are alot of recommendations floating around, but most of them are quite old. The golf has about 170K km's on it. I bought it about a year ago and put nulon 10w-40 in it and swapped it for the same at ~8k km's. I'm coming up on the next change and want to see what others think? I've been lurking a bit and am thinking group 4/5.
Premium oil is a bit harder to come by here in Australia, and I'm not really sure about what weight would be best for a 170K km car. I'm thinking of going with Motul X-cess or X-Clean 5w-40 as they are pretty high quality possibly the 502/505 specific, theres also the newer 504 specific but is only 5w-30 which I think might be a bit thin for so many KM. I've also looked at Penrite 10 tenths (a local brand) but it only comes in 10w-40 and 5w-50 and has a zinc level of ~2000ppm which might be bad for the CAT right?
Car stats
2002 Volkswagen Golf GTI, Stage 2 160KWish (up from 110KW), k03s turbo swap, 3" downpipe sports CAT, upgraded intercooler 4BAR FPR
VW 502/504
Sydney Australia, pretty temperate lowest temps you would see is 50F, high of 104F
I'm a bit of lead foot on occasion, but not all the time, I want to start taking the car to a few track days 3ish ~15min sessions
Mostly 30 min trips to and from work, then maybe once a fortnight a 2 hourish drive up or down the coast
Recently replaced the crank angle and cam hall due to an issue where the engine would shutdown, new fuel pump other than that looks good at the moment
the standard go to quality brands of oil are a bit harder to come by here, mostly oil would come from ebay, or shops called supercheap and sparesbox, I'm looking at ~$80 for 5L of motul X-cess
Let me know, thanks,
jsmccc
Bit of a lurker, I just wanted to get some opinions on Oil suggestions for my golf. There are alot of recommendations floating around, but most of them are quite old. The golf has about 170K km's on it. I bought it about a year ago and put nulon 10w-40 in it and swapped it for the same at ~8k km's. I'm coming up on the next change and want to see what others think? I've been lurking a bit and am thinking group 4/5.
Premium oil is a bit harder to come by here in Australia, and I'm not really sure about what weight would be best for a 170K km car. I'm thinking of going with Motul X-cess or X-Clean 5w-40 as they are pretty high quality possibly the 502/505 specific, theres also the newer 504 specific but is only 5w-30 which I think might be a bit thin for so many KM. I've also looked at Penrite 10 tenths (a local brand) but it only comes in 10w-40 and 5w-50 and has a zinc level of ~2000ppm which might be bad for the CAT right?
Car stats
2002 Volkswagen Golf GTI, Stage 2 160KWish (up from 110KW), k03s turbo swap, 3" downpipe sports CAT, upgraded intercooler 4BAR FPR
VW 502/504
Sydney Australia, pretty temperate lowest temps you would see is 50F, high of 104F
I'm a bit of lead foot on occasion, but not all the time, I want to start taking the car to a few track days 3ish ~15min sessions
Mostly 30 min trips to and from work, then maybe once a fortnight a 2 hourish drive up or down the coast
Recently replaced the crank angle and cam hall due to an issue where the engine would shutdown, new fuel pump other than that looks good at the moment
the standard go to quality brands of oil are a bit harder to come by here, mostly oil would come from ebay, or shops called supercheap and sparesbox, I'm looking at ~$80 for 5L of motul X-cess
Let me know, thanks,
jsmccc