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Castrol › Engine oil

usernamesherearedumb 28 Dec 2022, 22:36

Rating 5.0

Last oil change (Sep 2022, 100,094 miles), I used Castrol Edge 0W-40.

Vehicle: BMW

Mileage: 160903 km

Castrol › Engine oil

mossyoaktoe 28 Dec 2022, 02:00

Rating 4.0

Better to use cheap oil and change often than to buy expensive oil and run it out to 10k+ miles. Personally I typically use Castrol products and change my gasoline engines at 3k and Diesel engines at 5k miles.

Pros: use Castrol products

Cons: cheap oil

Vehicle: Jeep

Mileage: 3000 km

OEM Volkswagen › Engine oil

Queasy_Chicken_5174 25 Dec 2022, 02:33

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Rating 5.0

Put 100k miles on my mark iv jetta tdi while using the stuff. No problems.

Pros: no problems

Vehicle: Volkswagen Jetta

Mileage: 160934 km

Castrol › Engine oil

Zeccede 29 Nov 2022, 04:22

Rating 5.0

I use the castrol gtx high mile full synthetic 10w-40 and a sohn adapter with ideimitsu. I’m sure non of the name brands will hurt As long as you change it frequently.

Pros: change it frequently

Castrol › Engine oil

ARAR1 25 Nov 2022, 10:04

Rating 5.0

I change every 10,000 km - 7000 mi.

Castrol or Mobil full synthetic.

To me that is much better than running any brand of oil longer.

Pros: better than running longer

Vehicle: BMW

Mileage: 10000 km

Castrol › Engine oil

UnderPantsOverPants 23 Nov 2022, 11:57

Rating 5.0

I’m a Castrol 0W40 guy myself.

Pros: good quality

Castrol › Engine oil

Michael07gti 20 Nov 2022, 05:02

Rating 5.0

It doesn't seem like I burn any oil in my Rabbit. 0w-20 seems too light to me, also, I'm running Castrol Edge 10w-40.

Pros: no oil burning

Cons: 0w-20 seems too light

Vehicle: Volkswagen

Mileage: 48000 km

Castrol › Engine oil

keboh 18 Nov 2022, 21:24

Engine noise:

Rating 5.0

I run Castrol GTX 10w40 in my FD. Premix TCW2 2stroke oil .5oz/gal.

Engine seems happy as can be.

Pros: Engine seems happy

Vehicle: Mazda

Castrol › Engine oil

human8706543901 8 Nov 2022, 22:12

Engine noise:

Rating 4.0

I use mobil1 or castrol full synth 0W-20 for prius engines below 200k and 0W-30 for those above it. More than 30k mi now so far so good. I like the castrol better bec my engines sounds much quieter vs m1.

Pros: quieter engine sound

Vehicle: Toyota Prius

Mileage: 30000 km