On Monday, February 07, 2000 11:12 PM, Dominique Cormann
[SMTP:kozmik@home.com] wrote:
> AFAIK, your manual should state that the correct oil is an oil that
> qualifies with at least one of the following:
> B3
> VW 505
> CF-4, CG-4
> It doesn't have to meet all of the specs, just at least one of them.

Right you are!  I should have checked my manual before replying.

It's interesting that VW is instructing dealers to use the synthetic oil
for the free maintenance oil changes, instead of the presumably cheaper
dino oil.  See http://tech.vw.com/pdf/V99-05TDIsyn_.PDF  (you need Adobe
Acrobat Reader to view this.)

Maynard
'82 Westy Diesel "Reinhardt"
'93 EV GL "Klinger"
'00 Golf GLS TDI "WooHoo"