[200q20v] winter oil and nasty comments

[Lawrence C Leung]

Personnally haven't had good luck with 5W-50 in heavy duty summer use
(i.e. auto-X. Caused lifter tap and who knows what else. Went away when
the oil cooled.). Works fine in the winter tho.

LL - NY

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:19:29 -0500 Huw Powell <audi at mediaone.net> writes:
>
>> actually, i just took a look at bentley and it recommends 
>5w-30/5w-20 for
>> temps of -20 to 20 degrees f and 10w-30/10w-40 for temps of 0 to 60 
>degrees
>> f.  but i recall one of my owner's manuals (can't recall if it's vw 
>or audi)
>> warning against the use of 5w-30 or thinner for extended, high 
>speed
>> driving.  i'll have to check next time.
>
>if you're gonna run synthetic, just use 5w50, covers it all...
>
>-- 
>Huw Powell
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