What grade oil is to be used in the vRS?

I've not got the manual to hand.

My Fords (Zetecs had narrow oil channels) always seemd to be fine on the Chevron Synthetic stuff from Costco.

Fixed or variable service intervals? For the former you can either use a multigrade high lubricity oil which meets specs VW 500 00 or 502 00, or a multigrade oil which meets spec VW 501 01. If on variable servicing then you must use a spec VW 503 00 synthetic LongLife oil. The latter often comes in the same container as 506 00 and 506 01 oil. Examples include:

Aral SuperTronic LongLife II SAE 0W-30

BP Visco 7000 LongLife II SAE 0W-30

Castrol Longlife 2 Top Up SAE OW-30

Castrol SLX LongLife II SAE 0W-30

Elf Evolution CRV SAE OW-30

Esso Universal LD SAE 0W-30

Fuchs Titan Supersyn SL Longlife Plus SAE 0W-30

Q8 Formula Excel EDX SAE OW-30

Mobil SHC Formula LD SAE 0W-30

Motul Specific 50601 50600 50300 SAE OW-30

Shell Helix Ultra X SAE 0W-30

Texaco Havoline Synthetic 50601 SAE OW-30

Some of these oils are being superceded by versions meeting VW 504 00/507 00 which are backwardly compatible with 503 00.

I understand that the VW 503 00 is for variable servicing, but can it but used on cars on fixed servicing?

I understand that the VW 503 00 is for variable servicing, but can it but used on cars on fixed servicing?

Yes - but it is an expensive oil to be changing every 10,000 miles/12 months.

Wasn't planning on using it for servicing, it's just I happen to have a 1lt for topping up purposes.

0w-30, I can cope with that. I'd use synthetic as far as possible anyway.

I've no idea whether the servicing is fixed or variable(???).

I've had the car since December and thought I'd change the oil....

I've no intention of taking the car to a main dealer to pay silly money for it to have the oil changed and the screen wash filled.

Will there be a service light that needs re-setting? Will the car decide it's had enough and just stop? Am I going to need to have somebody with VAGCom tweak something?

I've no idea whether the servicing is fixed or variable(???).

I've had the car since December and thought I'd change the oil....

I've no intention of taking the car to a main dealer to pay silly money for it to have the oil changed and the screen wash filled.

Will there be a service light that needs re-setting? Will the car decide it's had enough and just stop? Am I going to need to have somebody with VAGCom tweak something?

Check the details in the Service Schedule of the last service done and you should be able to work out from the details recorded for next service what type of service regime it has been set for. There should also be a service sticker on the RHS of the dash with details of next service.

You need VAG-COM to reset the service indicator display for variable servicing, and resetting it is pointless unless you have actually had the necessary servicing done. Regardless of fixed or variable, you will get advance warning of the need for a service. This appears for a few seconds only in the odometer display on startup once the countdown to the service starts, ie at 1000 miles.