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smithsc
Friday 5th September 2008, 10:06
Hi Guys,

I'm about to change my oil on a P2 T5 whats the best one to get ????

Any advice greatly appriciated

cornclose
Friday 5th September 2008, 10:54
A discussion on this a few months back :-

http://www.vpcuk.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15354&page=2

lance
Friday 5th September 2008, 11:38
0-30 may be ok for a newish R and that long life castrol aint cheap and maybe too thin for an older phase 2, DPA uses 5-30 fully synthetic Valvoline for phase 2s
Older T5s Phase 1s seem to like 10-40 magnatec.

dave stew
Friday 5th September 2008, 18:33
I run Valvoline fully synthetic 5W40 (SynPower) in my T5. HLM tuning put me onto it at the 100k service and 40k on, I haven't used anything else. It very rarely needs topping up and I am very pleased with it.

shemtek_racing
Friday 5th September 2008, 19:37
ive always used 0w40 either mobil 1 or castrol edge mines on 150k it it does use half a litre every few thousand miles but i prefer it this way as the oil gets abit of fresh oil between services. just out of interested how long are people going between changes?

Rufe
Friday 5th September 2008, 21:00
Hi Guys,

I'm about to change my oil on a P2 T5 whats the best one to get ????

Any advice greatly appriciated
Here are the official oils that volvo/castrol recommend for your car in case it helps you, heres a portion of an image i made before to help show which one looks like what-

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v17/rufe_v6/oil1.jpg

OPTIMUM Protection – (2) Castrol SLX Professional Longtec 0w-30
STANDARD Protection – (3) Castrol SLX Professional 5w-30


(note, excludes vehicles with 18k service intervals, and excludes 'R')

Simon :)