Re: What Oil to Use in a 16V and 8V?

[Jan Folkson <jfolkson@optonline.net>]

I run 20/50 Quaker State in my car and haven't seen any problems with it.
Ryan, perhaps you had oil circulation problems with the Jetta.  20/50 is
what the dealer recommended to me when I bought my car in '86 btw.


- Jan Folkson 
NYC, NY 

http://www.janfolkson.com

'86 16V
'99 Passat GLS 1.8t
'00 Beetle GLX 1.8t

> 
> --- Ryan McCarthy <scirocco777@juno.com> wrote:
> 
> Please, please, do not run 20-50
>> in your engine.
> 
> Bzzzzt.  20w50 is the recommended oil for our engines.
> 
>> My father did that to my jetta, before I bought it from
>> him, on the
>> advice of a mechanic. Two bearings spun and I directly
>> link that to
>> running too thick a grade in the car.
> 
> Nope.  Total coincidence.
> 
> I run Castrol 20w50 in every VW I own, and will likely
> continue doing so for the forseeable future.
> 
> 
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