At 09:17 PM 2/7/2000 EST, you wrote:
>Have you refered to your maintenance booklet that came with the car? 10K is a
>LONG interval. My '98 passat 1.8T interval is 5K. I don't think I'd go beyond
>that.
>Rob
>
See Road & Track 'Technical Correspondence' column of August '99 (also at:)

http://roadandtrack.com/RoadAndTrack/FrameSet/0,1169,_sl_RoadAndTrack_sl_Art
icle_sl_0_cm_1182_cm_1828_1_8_cm_00,00.html

Jeez, that may not work *directly*; if not, just do a search for 'synthetic
oil', which returned 4 ref's for me; then go to the 8/99 article (1st
question)

Austin