If anybody needs to buy any oil with the above VW spec Costco have a special offer at the moment, Castrol Edge 5W 40 FST - 4 litres for £25.90 incl vat. The can has the old style branding but is a good deal.
If anybody needs to buy any oil with the above VW spec Costco have a special offer at the moment, Castrol Edge 5W 40 FST - 4 litres for £25.90 incl vat. The can has the old style branding but is a good deal.
Each to their own, but I think that's far from a good deal for VW502 especially as it's only 4L, not to mention the brand, check out Opie oils website..
Jeez! Who puts 502.00 in their Leon? If you have it serviced at a VW/Audi/SEAT/SKoda dealer they will almost certainly use 507.00.
My car is on fixed intervals and my dealer used a non vw507 oil, Mobil Super 3000 which is 502 spec. 5w30
My understanding is that 507 is a must for those on variable/long life intervals but not a requirement for fixed intervals.
The Castrol mentioned is 5w40 so the wrong grade for many.
I bought 4 litres for topping up, my car is on a Seat Fixed price service plan for 3 years so don't intend to do any oil changes myself as I only do low mileage.
Four litres of oil sounds like quite a lot for topping up over three years! Does your car use much oil between services, do expect to use it?
I may have been very lucky but I have never needed to add any oil between services to any of my VW group cars!
Let's just get this straight:
502.00 is for fixed service intervals - petrol
504.00 is Long Life variable - petrol
507.00 is variable/long life for most diesel engines except for V10, R5 and VW commercial vehicles without DPF.
So if you have 507.00 in your 1.8 TSI I would suggest draining it and adding the correct grade of oil for your vehicle.
Information was taken from the Opie oils website.
Jeez! Who puts 502.00 in their Leon? If you have it serviced at a VW/Audi/SEAT/SKoda dealer they will almost certainly use 507.00.
That won't be necessary since Castrol Edge 5W-30 meets both 504.00 and 507.00.