amazak 3 Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Gonna do an oil change on the vr and my best friend who is a mac recommended fully synthetic oil as he says the car has low miles and that would be the correct way to go. I have used the VW syntha silver on my previous vr so not too sure about full synthetic?? Any suggestions....Thanks in advance Link to post Share on other sites
Eat this 2 Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 fully synthetics absolutly fine just make sure its 10-40 not 5-40 Link to post Share on other sites
amazak 3 Posted July 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Cool, what about long life is that 5-40 then? Link to post Share on other sites
xyber 1 Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 mine seemed to guzzle fully syn oil big time, how about synta gold, nice and cheap from TPS Link to post Share on other sites
VR6_Absy 0 Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 Personally I would stick with the Semi Synthetic as its not as tho its a new car. Link to post Share on other sites
Eat this 2 Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 mine seemed to guzzle fully syn oil big time' date=' how about synta gold, nice and cheap from TPS[/quote']iirc synta gold is 5-40 too matefully synth semi synth or mineral doesnt directly relate to the thickness of the oil ie 0-40 5-40 10-40 etc it just tends to be that fully synth is usually thinner than semi synth Link to post Share on other sites
xyber 1 Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 mine seemed to guzzle fully syn oil big time' date=' how about synta gold, nice and cheap from TPS[/quote']iirc synta gold is 5-40 too matefully synth semi synth or mineral doesnt directly relate to the thickness of the oil ie 0-40 5-40 10-40 etc it just tends to be that fully synth is usually thinner than semi synthI used to use fuchs 10-40 fully syn, but went back to synta silver as it really does seem to best the best option, for mine anyway Link to post Share on other sites
amazak 3 Posted July 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2008 What is the website for TPS? Gonna go with Syntha Silver Link to post Share on other sites
Phat VR6 3 Posted July 30, 2008 Report Share Posted July 30, 2008 im hearing TPS pop up alot? what and where is this place. and whats the score with it? Is it another gfs of proper VAG parts cheeper?ps id also stay away from fully syn, Best to stick with what vw say imo Link to post Share on other sites
craggsy 91 Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 TPS is VW parts Link to post Share on other sites
amazak 3 Posted July 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 Here is the website.... http://www.thetradepartsspecialists.co.uk/Just picked up 6 Litres of Syntha silver and an oil filter for £27 incl vat. Happy days! Rang VW for a quote. The guy started by quoting £23 for 5 litres, stopped him right there and said never mind I will go to TPS Link to post Share on other sites
Saunders82 0 Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 tbh when ever i sold oil for vr6's if a customer hasnt requested 10w40 then ive recommended synta gold 5w40 both are within the spec list for a vr6 engine i had a giant quantum wall chart at work with all what oils went into what but for some odd reason management binned it and i cant find anything with any information on pre 99 cars now.Tbh its really dependant on the condition of the engine ie higher mileage's will have less tolerence for thinner fully syntheic oilput it this way some 2.8 4 motions mk4's are on long like service schedule which is even thinner spec oil 5w30 longlife from factory ive only stuck 5w40 synta gold in my vr6 ps i work for tps staff discount rocks Link to post Share on other sites
rigs 0 Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 More recently we've used 5w-40 Silkolene Pro S with no issue - brilliant oil. Link to post Share on other sites
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