Full Version: What type of oil does everybody recommend using?
Okay, I have to lay it out there......What oil type and viscosity is everybody running in their teeners?
Brad Penn 10w30 in the winter.
I buy Brad Penn from Original Customs when I get close to there. Locally, I can get Royal Purple 20W50...
Is 20W50 the recommended viscosity by Porsche and VW?
Mobil 1 15/50
amzoil z-rod 30 wt. all year round.
Mobil 1 20/50 Synthetic as the engine has always received. 145,000 miles on engine with compression and leak down within one percent etc. This is used on a 1987 Sixer Carrera.
Steve
Steve
Swepco 306 15/40 always.
QUOTE(jersey914 @ Oct 24 2012, 05:37 PM) 
Is 20W50 the recommended viscosity by Porsche and VW?
No sure but you have to realize that oils have come a long way since our cars rolled off the line and may be quite different, hopefully better, than what they filled it with at the factory and recommended in the owners manual. If I recall, Castrol was recommended in the owners manual.
Isn't there a zinc content consideration now that it is being phased out?
QUOTE(okieflyr @ Oct 25 2012, 04:30 PM)
Isn't there a zinc content consideration now that it is being phased out?
yup.... you gotta do your homework. all oils are not created equal.
QUOTE(cwpeden @ Oct 24 2012, 09:37 PM)
Swepco 306 15/40 always.
+1
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