so should i stop using this veggie oil from Tesco's then??

OMG - you just reminded me.

I must stop using the PD oil - the chips taste horrible :P

I was browsing the Halfords near to the garage i'd dropped the car off at, and was looking at the oils and noticed that the Halfords own brand oil no longer stated 505.01. I had to double check, yes i was looking at the right ones it was labeled as a 5-40 semi but just not to VW specs.

They are still selling the stuff right?

I rushed to Halfrauds and I could not find any marked 505.01 it would have been handy, as my nearest Millers is thirty miles away :-(

Do you know what Halfrauds has the 505.01 what colour container is it in

is it semi synth? etc

Would be handy do know

Regards

National aka Jimbo

I was browsing the Halfords near to the garage i'd dropped the car off at, and was looking at the oils and noticed that the Halfords own brand oil no longer stated 505.01. I had to double check, yes i was looking at the right ones it was labeled as a 5-40 semi but just not to VW specs.

They are still selling the stuff right?

They had 505.01 in Chelmsford Halfrauds yesterday. Labelled fully synthetic.

Chris

the 5w40 in a light silver container is fully synthetic but not 505.01.

the 5w40 in the dark silver/ grey container is fully synthetic and does meet the 505.01 so suitable for pd engine.

but to be honest the halfords oil is rubbish compared to millers etc. i put some in once to give it a try. the engine was noiser on start up and generally less smooth.

put some millers xfe pd in and cold morning start ups are definatly alot better.

the 5w40 in a light silver container is fully synthetic but not 505.01.

the 5w40 in the dark silver/ grey container is fully synthetic and does meet the 505.01 so suitable for pd engine.

but to be honest the halfords oil is rubbish compared to millers etc. i put some in once to give it a try. the engine was noiser on start up and generally less smooth.

put some millers xfe pd in and cold morning start ups are definatly alot better.

I would be careful when assessing oils. That an engine gets more noisy as the oil breaks down is often the case, but that an oil is good because it makes an engine quiet, or bad because it makes and engine noisy is simply not true.

The Fuchs Titan Supersyn Plus is a highly regarded product, but t does leave the engine a little rattly from fill up onward. The sound does not change through the service interval, so indicates that there are probably no major changes in the oil.

Chris

Be careful, 'meets 505.01' and 'has been tested by VW to 505.01' are two very different things. Many oil companies claim the former but VW have never released the test specification so the best they can do is to try to match a properly tested oil's general characteristics.

One oil I know has passed the VW test formally is Valvoline Durablend 5w-40. Valvoline sent me a copy of the VW certification. I suggest anyone who is really concerned about oil gets confirmation that their manufacturer has paid VW the several thousand pounds for the proper test before buying. I believe Millers have also gone through this process too.