[s-cars] Synthetic oil weight rec's

[Taka Mizutani]

My big problems with Syntec 5W50 were twofold:

1. massive lifter tick on startup after the oil change on a cold engine,
every time.
2. big jump in oil consumption

Observed in a sample of 3 cars- '86 5ktq with 170k, '91 200q with 120k and
'01 VW NB from new.

After that, I stopped using it.

Taka


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:49 PM, mike schowengerdt <urdrquattro at yahoo.com>wrote:

> i spend 50-60 hrs @week servicing and repairing nothing but audi-vw and
> have used 5w50 casrtrol syntec in all turbo motors for the last ~15 years
> w/ nothing but good results............my experience, of course
> YMMV........................m
>