[Vwdiesel] 0w30 Mobil 1

[James Hansen]

----- Original Message -----
From: James Hansen <jhsg at sk.sympatico.ca>
To: <dieseltdi at earthlink.net>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] 0w30 Mobil 1


> > Also, I hope you don't live in a hot climate, the 0 rated oil may allow
> your
> > engine to simply burn it self out due to lack of lubrication.  Now if I
> > lived on the north slope of alaska then maybe, just maybe, I would use
it
> > for the winter time but NEVER in the summer.  Just my 2 cents, Hayden
>
> I use the 0-40 Shell synth oil in winter, very nice.  The 0-30 that was
the
> previous oil they produced for this application was not rated for td's, so
I
> tried it in the wife's gas car.... it sounded about like I was using apple
> juice instead of oil.When spring gets here, you want to change out the
0-40
> too- it's fairly noisy if you don't.  Would suspect that if it's noisy, it
> isn't doing a very good job of oiling either.
>
> EGR... yes the 97 Passat tdi uses cooled egr/ engine soot wearer-outer
> device.  It seems that it is now possible to defeat the thing with your
> handy Vag-Com by resetting adaptation channel 3 to 33768 (login code
12233).
> However, that said, it would be illegal to do this in the land of the
free,
> because of emissions regulations. Much better to wear your engine out
> prematurely in the name of nitrogen emissions measured by percentage of
> exhaust gases.  So where does the energy come from to make a rebuilt
engine
> you may ask... hmmmm.  If you are running the stock setup, never mind what
> the minimum spec for the oil is, use as good a soot handler as you can,
> 'cause you are going to be carrying a pocketful by the time the drain
> interval is up.  The ecu wants to see less airflow from the MAF when the
egr
> is called to open.  If this doesn't happen, it gives an error code and a
mil
> light because it's an emissions issue.
> Also bear in mind, that the oil sold by VW would not have been called
> synthetic a few years ago.  After some big court cases about how much
> modifying needs to be done to an oil in order to call it a synthetic,
rather
> than the idea of building the oil from scratch (natural gas or other
carbon
> source) , a whole pile of oil is now "synthetic" rather than what it
really
> is- a severely hydrocracked mineral oil.  "Synthetic" is more a marketing/
> advertising word used just to sell product than an actual description of
the
> product quality, as most people still consider it to relate to product
> quality.
> -James
>