Engine oil Mobil or MOTUL

Stopped buying the dealer oil and switched to Mobil one esp x2, stopped asking for more oil between 5k changes.

I love my Motul Xcess 5W-40, just becoming harder and harder to find.

I’m from saudi and the owner’s manual recommends 0w20 or 5w30, never mentioned 0w16 despite that the engine is the same (A25A-FKS). Im using mobil 5w30 btw

I use 5w30 ESP Mobil 1, has the 507 grade spec and gets on sale at Canadian tire pretty frequently

I have a 2015 golf tdi and have had good luck with Mobil 1 ESP.

I pay about that. Quality oil and filters cost money. Many shops price oil changes as a loss leader. Euro oil changes are not sold this way, you pay the true price of the service (roughly $80 in supplies, half an hour of labor). I pay ~$160, But you get quality oil in return.

I used to run 0W40 in Lexus IS250 (4GR-FSE engine) with great results, towards the end of it's life (maybe... the car was stolen at around 200k miles, so not sure when it actually died) it was burning little bit of oil when 5W30 was used. However, I have noticed that when I changed for 0W40, it has not burn any oil at all and oil was noticeably cleaner.

I made myself the services, and used Motul 7100 10w50, I can feel the gearbox it's smoother.

Usually, motor oil goes bad because the additive packs that are in the oil get burned off or used up. I'd imagine that this new Mobil1 Annual Performance has more additive packs than what standard Mobil1 has but it's probably able to go that far because you're going to have to add additional oil that gets burned off because every car burns oil.

i got a little valve clatter when i went to 0w40 on my next oil change i'll be using 5w40 (synthetic)