5w30 or 5w40

knight85

Money spending clown
Dec 30, 2008
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South East
Changing my glow plugs at weekend and will also do an oil change for good measure - confused as to whether I need 5w30 or 5w40 fully synthetic oil

any advice?
 

great_kahn

Spooge
Nov 19, 2009
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2
Leicestershire
5w-30 VW 507 00 is the latest spec, it superceeds vw505.01 5w-40 in most applications. So either is fine tbh. Except the Cupra tdi which calls for VW 506.01 0w-30, which again is superceeded by 507 00.
 
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