[s-cars] Black Gold, Texas Tea, Oil That Is

[Taka Mizutani]

Nathan-
I can't agree with your assessment- where do you see that Mobil 1 is "not
rated for turbos?"

Also, in the UrS cars, the VW spec that you reference came much later-
regular Mobil 1 is fine. In the much later cars with much tighter tolerances
and engines spec'd for much lighter oil for fuel efficiency purposes, you
will
need the 505.02 stuff. Also, for cars under warranty.

Taka

On 11/2/06, Nathan Belo <nathan at license2sell.com> wrote:
>
> Jethro.....?  Yes, granny!  Mobil 1 rebadged the SUV/truck synthetic oil
> to Mobil 1 Turbo Diesel Truck 5W-40 and now sells it in 4 qt. jugs
> instead of the 5qt. jugs at Wal-Mart & GI Joe's.  Need to stay away from
> the Costco stuff because it's not rated for turbos or VW 505.02.  YMMV.
> The M1 TDT has all the expensive chemicals in it.  Rotella is great
> stuff for the money for non-turbo cars (info came from Eliot Lim whom
> runs the stuff in his 993 Targa & swears it runs and sounds better).
>
>
> http://www.mobiloil.com/USA-English/MotorOil/Oils/Mobil_1_Turbo_Diesel_Truck_5W-40.aspx
>
> Nathan Belo
> '92 S4 running M1 Turbo Diesel Truck 5W-40 from G.I. Joe's
>
>