Oil filter Motorcraft or Castrol

Motorcraft are good. Mobil1 Filters are very good, and are a great idea if your going to for long OCI's. I've used filters from Baldwin - they got very good reviews on the cut-apart tests - and I have a place where I can order a half dozen at a time for less than what I pay for Frams at Walmart. I am using Motorcraft on my F250

I would go with 0w30 or 0w40. I changed my oil and filter at 1k with castrol 0w40 and it runs just fine. I did find a few metal flakes and slivers in my oil filter. Guess they were left overs from being built.

Actually, I can do it myself for less than half of that. I usually pickup 6 quarts of Mobil 1 at Costco for $25.99, and an OEM Motorcraft filter at Walmart for $3.95. For less than $30, I have a complete synthetic oil change.

Buy a 1.8t Make sure to do a T-belt waterpump service. Then use oem oil filters and castrol syn. 5w40(syn. is optional for VW 1.8ts but I would personally only run syn in a turbo car). Also flush the coolant system. If you do that you will have a 1.8t that will a very nice running car and will not do you wrong.