"The 3000 mile or 3 months thing is something left over from the days of
poor quality oils, and poor quality engines"

And our VW engines are left over from that time too. NO?
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Dominique Cormann <kozmik@HOME.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: Engine oil change interval (VW content...)

>On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:13:14 -0800
>Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>The article talks about BMW's oil analysis computer, but thats just one
>company. In europe for the MY2000 vehicles VW cars, they now come with a
>similar computer. The vehicles are filled with a 0w30 VW 505 oil ( mobil
>1 for example meets VW 505 ), and the computer tells you when to change
>the oil. They achieve similar numbers to BMW, city drivers change around
>10,000 miles and mostly highway drivers the computer tells them around
>18,000 miles. Porche and MB also recommend pretty high drain times as
>well.
>
>The 3000 mile or 3 months thing is something left over from the days of
>poor quality oils, and poor quality engines.
>
>
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