In Winnipeg - I'm using 5W30.

Marshall Ruskin

>I thought T.O. had all that hot air from Ottawa keeping it warm?  After
all, the
>election *IS* decided by how T.O. votes, right?
>
>All jokes aside...
>
>I was going to pick up some Mobil 1 the other day, and they have 10W30,
15W40 (or is
>it 15W50?) and 20W50 and was a little befuzzled about which one to get.
That brings
>up another question - is running syn in my high mileage engine just going
to cause
>it to weep oil too much?  Or should I stick with dino?  I put Mobil 1 when
I got it
>(one oil change ago), cause that's all my Golf gets (and has got since
new).
>
>Anyways, with the current 20W50 Mobil 1 in it, I noticed the engine was
much noisier
>at startup yesterday morning (-13 or so) so I think I may switch to 10W30.
Now I
>have to decide if it's dino or syn.
>
>Keith Adams
>Calgary, Alberta, Canada
>1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia
>
>Doug Alcock wrote:
>
>> >What I'm driving at is, I know full well that the 20W50 is too heavy for
>> >winter in these parts.  Is the 10W30 a better choice, or is another
weight
>> >better?
>>
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>>      I use 10w40 here in the Great White North (Toronto, Canada)....
though I'll
>> bet
>> my fellow countrymen in even colder climes (Ottawa, Winnipeg, Alberta
etc) will
>> argue that
>> Toronto isn't cold at all.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Doug Alcock
>> '84 Westy
>> Toronto, Canada
>