what type of oil is better

[ats at longcoeur.com (Patrick Bureau)]

Well assuming your living where temperatures where its like freezing, I
would suggest looking at the user manual of your car and compare the
temperature range and select the appropriate rate of viscosity for your car.
There is not much of a difference between 10ww30/10w40. 

I always worry about people that tell me to use 10w30 in a car (wife did
that when I got the scirocco from her) and her simple explanation was, the
oil light would never go out unless the 10w390 oil was in the car... of
course I put 20w50 (recommended in hot weather) oil and the light came on...
after verification I changed the oil pump and the light when out, 178K on a
single oil pump was the determining factor. I would investigate why you are
told to use 10w30.

PS: all vw's run 10w40 now from factory (newer models because of them being
low friction engines), but if it a scirocco, 20w50 in summer, 10w30/40 in
winter is fine.

I use a Kamei X1 13" stering wheel and aside from trying to turn whithout
moving forward *no power steering) there is not much of a difference
really.. for comfort zone though if my car was a daily driver, Iwould keep
the larger steering wheel, just smoother feeling, the small the steering
wheel the tigher you got top keep a grip on it... sportier the car feels.
No seriously it does feel a lot sportier with a 13" versus the 15" steeing
wheel.



-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Stefan P
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:18 PM
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: what type of oil is better 

While in the shop the mechanic scolded me for using 10w30 in the car he says

use 10w40  its  got 125000 miles on it and it runes pretty good.  I was told

when i got the car to use 10w30. which way do I go?
Next question, why is the steering wheel in the scirocco so big, my freind 
owns a truck and his steerinng wheel is smaller. Are there cons to getting a

smaller (after market) steering wheel, like momo? would it even matter? Just

wondering

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