oil
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:21 pm
just about to change my oil this weekend. i was gunna put in gtx magnatec 10/40, what do you guys recommend, bearing in mind my gt has done 137.000 miles?
cheers
james
cheers
james
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 8:04 pm
Quantum synta silver, 10w40. All I use in GT's.
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 8:25 pm
cheers hardhitter, but id assume that gtx magnatec would be fine to use?
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 9:09 pm
agree with wot he said! use it in my 1ltr and the g40hardhitter wrote:Quantum synta silver, 10w40. All I use in GT's.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 2:48 am
Magnatec will be ok but for the money you may as well use the synta - it's made by VW for VAG cars after all 
and it's cheaper!
Not to mention i've heard some "funny" things about the longevity and long-term effects on your engine that magnatec can have. Nothing that's been backed up, but some claims that it's not all it's cracked up to be (or indeed, quite a lot it cracks down to be).
After 150k you might want to go on to the quantum blue (15w40) as its a little thicker/heavier, and will give wearing components a little extra cushioning - unless you've given it a good overhaul / an easy life. (it's what i'll be re-running-in the 1L with, just to be sure).
If you're brave or its a bit of an old smoker, tesco value 20w50 (used chippie oil, probably!) will still do the job in summertime if you let the engine warm a half minute before setting off in the morning. After all we never used to have 12-month multigrades...
BTW be VERY CAREFUL with the lid on the magnatec, if it's still the way it was 18 months ago - when it broke to pieces in my boot on the way home after a quick corner, and poured more than 3 litres over the boot, spare tyre (ruined), and under the carpet! Fragile, hard to open, and impossible to pour properly with too.
and it's cheaper!Not to mention i've heard some "funny" things about the longevity and long-term effects on your engine that magnatec can have. Nothing that's been backed up, but some claims that it's not all it's cracked up to be (or indeed, quite a lot it cracks down to be).
After 150k you might want to go on to the quantum blue (15w40) as its a little thicker/heavier, and will give wearing components a little extra cushioning - unless you've given it a good overhaul / an easy life. (it's what i'll be re-running-in the 1L with, just to be sure).
If you're brave or its a bit of an old smoker, tesco value 20w50 (used chippie oil, probably!) will still do the job in summertime if you let the engine warm a half minute before setting off in the morning. After all we never used to have 12-month multigrades...
BTW be VERY CAREFUL with the lid on the magnatec, if it's still the way it was 18 months ago - when it broke to pieces in my boot on the way home after a quick corner, and poured more than 3 litres over the boot, spare tyre (ruined), and under the carpet! Fragile, hard to open, and impossible to pour properly with too.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 9:48 am
Do not use 20W50, unless you really do not give a s**t about your engine!
As mentioned, use Quantum Synta Sliver 10W40, with a genuine VAG oil filter.
Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 7:43 pm
ok, ok, if its that bad, i rescind my comment - though i thought itd be alright for emergency use in the warm months?
Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 4:51 pm
Thing is, changing your oil shouldn't be an emergency. That supermarket value stuff really is crap and is completely the wrong grade.
As a rule of thumb, stick with what VW specify (10w40 - 15w40) and use nothing else.
As a rule of thumb, stick with what VW specify (10w40 - 15w40) and use nothing else.
Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 6:37 pm
Okey doke then 
It looks like pikey oil for travellers' ecosystem-murdering scrambler bikes anyway.
(Tangent::: got a load set up camp on a quasi-layby (gated-off bit of an oxbow road*) on my route to work - last time i was heading off that way i had to dodge them doing a bit of Fast and the Furious quarter-miling in an oddly shiny looking Paxo and Festa. Granted that road is just about perfect for it, but the sharp blind bends at each end and the amount of traffic mean only a pikey would attempt it outside of the wee hours.)
*oxbow road - like an oxbow lake, it's a bit of a former tarmac route that's been made pointless by redevelopment such that it now goes nowhere and is cut off at least at one end from the other road(s) it used to have a junction with, or even from the rest of it's former path. With this particular one, you have to negotiate a chicane-like pair of sharp junctions, going briefly down two completely different roads, in order to get back on the route you were on - the former surfaced stretch still being in existance but gated off and only used as a lover's lane... or for pikeys to park their caravans on and use as a base of operations from which to terrorise the populace. In particular the poor folk in the farmhouse directly opposite.
(PS if i'm to be a complete and unneccesarily pedantic arse about the oil: 15w50, 20w40 & 20w50 are all in one "class" among the 5 different ranges of oils reccomended in the official owners handbook; in that particular case, for temperatures from -15'c to above 40'c... as is 10w60, for temps ranging from under -30 to above +35! Not that i'd want to stray too far from the usual stuff - the only ones specified as being available in "improved lubricity" forms suitable for every single imaginable running environment are the common 5w30 thru 10w40. Interestingly the non-improved 10w40 (can you even buy that?) is shown as only suitable between -15 and +10 celcius, not reccomended for lower and strongly not reccommended at higher - makes you wonder what happens to it at normal engine running temps!)
Note: this is not to say I beleive that bit of the book, particularly as it was written more than fifteen years ago.
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It looks like pikey oil for travellers' ecosystem-murdering scrambler bikes anyway.(Tangent::: got a load set up camp on a quasi-layby (gated-off bit of an oxbow road*) on my route to work - last time i was heading off that way i had to dodge them doing a bit of Fast and the Furious quarter-miling in an oddly shiny looking Paxo and Festa. Granted that road is just about perfect for it, but the sharp blind bends at each end and the amount of traffic mean only a pikey would attempt it outside of the wee hours.)
*oxbow road - like an oxbow lake, it's a bit of a former tarmac route that's been made pointless by redevelopment such that it now goes nowhere and is cut off at least at one end from the other road(s) it used to have a junction with, or even from the rest of it's former path. With this particular one, you have to negotiate a chicane-like pair of sharp junctions, going briefly down two completely different roads, in order to get back on the route you were on - the former surfaced stretch still being in existance but gated off and only used as a lover's lane... or for pikeys to park their caravans on and use as a base of operations from which to terrorise the populace. In particular the poor folk in the farmhouse directly opposite.
(PS if i'm to be a complete and unneccesarily pedantic arse about the oil: 15w50, 20w40 & 20w50 are all in one "class" among the 5 different ranges of oils reccomended in the official owners handbook; in that particular case, for temperatures from -15'c to above 40'c... as is 10w60, for temps ranging from under -30 to above +35! Not that i'd want to stray too far from the usual stuff - the only ones specified as being available in "improved lubricity" forms suitable for every single imaginable running environment are the common 5w30 thru 10w40. Interestingly the non-improved 10w40 (can you even buy that?) is shown as only suitable between -15 and +10 celcius, not reccomended for lower and strongly not reccommended at higher - makes you wonder what happens to it at normal engine running temps!)
Note: this is not to say I beleive that bit of the book, particularly as it was written more than fifteen years ago.
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