What Oil

Hi Guys,

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

Any advice greatly appriciated

A discussion on this a few months back :-

http://www.vpcuk.org/forums/showthre...t=15354&page=2

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.

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.

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?

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Originally Posted by smithsc

Hi Guys,

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

Any advice greatly appriciated

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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 :)