At 09:24 PM 11/11/2008, Allan Streib wrote... > 2. VW-Audi changed the FIRST OIL CHANGE drain interval from model > year > (MY) '95 to MY '96 So what? The link you provide simply says VW changed from 5K to 7.5K oil changes. ALL statements about why are personal opinion. You claimed "VW and other makers who ordinarily require synthetic in their new engines have a requirement to NOT change the oil during the initial break-in period." "Have" is present tense, and your 12 year old, second-hand source says nothing about "other manufacturers." It only references a Passat manual, so it's also not clear whether the statement applied to Vanagons, which had engines with a relatively old design in 1995. Can you offer any evidence that VW used a special factory fill for Vanagons, or uses one for current engines? What argument is there for not using a synthetic from day 1? Break-in = engine wear. Why accelerate it? To use a bit less oil initially? You also ignored the fact that multiple other (mostly high end/high performance) vehicles are factory filled with Mobil-1 synthetic, and offered no response. Are they deliberately sabotaging their customers? |
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