hi want to ask one question about engine oil

[anjay]

which brand that i should use for the engine my sales said motul is good?
but my fd said mobile 1 is the best? and how often should i change the engine oil?

[KfabR8]

First off - change the oil when the car requests it. You'll get a notice on the dash board around 1500 miles before it's due. Usually it's about every 5K miles that it will want new oil. Changing more often than that is not necessary.

As far as what brand? Castrol, Mobil 1 and Motul are all top tier and all three will work just fine - I very seriously doubt that anyone here on this board would be able to tell the difference among them.

The main thing to make sure of is that you use an oil that meets Audi's specifications of the VW502 00 rating. If it doesn't have that somewhere on the bottle, don't put it in your car. Read your manual - it will tell you what weight and it also mentions the VW502 00 spec.

[rmicroys]

As far as I know it needs to meet the VW 504 specification (at least that's what my 2010 V10 asks for). I stick with the Castrol SLX Professional LL03 - you can get at the dealership. At least that's what I've found in Canada - a distinct lack of 504 oils available through normal retail channels (ie, big box stores). This oil is available at both Audi and VW dealerships for 9.59$ CAD where I am. I was quite surprised that the Porsche/Audi dealer didn't mark up the price over the VW dealer.

[M3R8]

rmicroys, consider yourself lucky, here the same oil is marked up to 33 Euros a liter, which is only $46 CAD.

I wonder how they can get away with this. People around here are plain stupid I guess.

[rmicroys]

Wow, that particularly sucks for people driving VW TDI's, because they use the same oil. I can't imagine just paying 200$+ alone for the oil in an oil change on a little 4 cylinder car.

[M3R8]

Indeed it sucks for them. But sucks in general, and the suckers pay for it - because people accept what they are told as facts

[rmicroys]

The whole cost of living, income and all is rather different from North America to Europe. I suppose partly for what you guys get paid, and what the market will bear for the price of goods. I remember when we bought our '93 VW Corrado on Euro delivery, in Canada we only got the VR6, fully loaded - we picked it up in Europe and everybody was goo-goo gaa-gaa over it. Then we found out why, over there they came in about 7 different engine configurations, and the VR6 loaded up was very spendy. More than twice the cost of the same car in Canada. Kinda crazy.

[M3R8]

While you could be right, you're wrong. Cost of living, to the same standard, is much higher in Europe vs Canada. Even if you compare the salaries dollar to euro after taxes, Canadians in the major cities would probably be making more - very broadly speaking.

There is no free market in Europe. Layers upon layers of middlemen ("major" resellers, smaller resellers) make sure too many people along the chain get compensated for every step you take. And they make sure each and every link in the chain gets compensated very handsomely.

I think it's actually a matter of culture that's affecting it here. People here pay what is asked of them, they are used to thinking it's non negotiable and should be paid as is. Royally raped with a smile.

7 Euros per liter (best price give or take) vs 33 Euros per liter at the stealer's, this is not a matter of cost of living or any other economical parameter, it's daylight robbery plain and simple.

Personally I have no reason to complain, however.

[v10]

First off - change the oil when the car requests it. You'll get a notice on the dash board around 1500 miles before it's due. Usually it's about every 5K miles that it will want new oil. Changing more often than that is not necessary.

As far as what brand? Castrol, Mobil 1 and Motul are all top tier and all three will work just fine - I very seriously doubt that anyone here on this board would be able to tell the difference among them.

The main thing to make sure of is that you use an oil that meets Audi's specifications of the VW504 rating. If it doesn't have that somewhere on the bottle, don't put it in your car. Read your manual - it will tell you what weight and it also mentions the VW504 spec.

Isn't it VW502 00? That's what my manual shows.

[KfabR8]

Arrrrgghhh..

I was correct originally - it's VW502 00 spec.

I originally said 502, but rmicroys said 504 and since I said 502 from memory, I thought I was incorrect.

I'm now going back to re-edit to the correct 502 00 spec.