Engine oil Shell or MOTUL

Try the Rotella 10w-30 T5. Thin oil may work better to free things up.

I always run rotella 15w-40 in my mk3 2.0 8v. No complaints and its cheap

Good quality synth 5w40 alllll dayyy eryyy dayyy. Flip open your owner's manual, 5w40 is the recommended oil. 30 weight thins out too much during extended drive periods or in high temp areas. FWIW the previous owner of my Golf sold it because it was an "oil burner" he was using gas station brand dino 5w30 :screwy: I switched to Motul and then Gulf 5w40, and drove it for 55k+ kms, had to add about 1L between my 10K OCIs.

I just did the 4th oil change (first non-dealer change) on our 40k mile Tiguan TSI and used Rotella T6. I use it in my stage 2 WRX and think it's fantastic, so why not in the TSI. Great oil overall.

I run the T6 in my 2.0T FSI.

Rotella T6 5w-40 is a great Diesel full synthetic.

Another vote for the Shell Rotella 15w-40. I run it year round in my Rabbit.

I use Shell Rotella 15W40. It is C grade oil specifically for diesel engines.

Well, today is the day. My TT get's its first oil change. Motul X-Clean is going in!

This is a 2009 GTI, just over 27k miles on the car, and 10,000 miles on Rotella T6. Car is tuned APR stage 1 93 octane, and has a Carbonio intake. I had some concern that maybe I didn't oil the air filter enough, and it looks like that is verified with the high silicon.