Well....
I put in 1 quart of Mobil 1 Synthetic 5W-30
and the rest is Rotella.... I guess this is my own "blend"...

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Townsend [mailto:townsend@rtp.ericsson.se]
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 1:03 PM
To: Michael Sullivan; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Cc: vw tdi
Subject: [VW-TDI] Diesel Oil again!

Here we go again,

I agree that Delvac 1 is the best synthetic for my Passat TDI.
Unfortunately, it is too expensive and hard to get, so I use Mobil 1.  Now,
I am starting to hear that Mobil 1 15W-50 full synthetic is also not good
enough because of soot removal properties!  I know that CF is not as high as
CH, but I thought it was still good enough for a TDI!  Even Shell Rotella T
dino oil is only CF, right?  So what's the real story here?  (I change every
5K miles).

Thanks,
Michael Townsend

P.S.  I have put Rotella T in my gas 2.1L Waterboxer before, because it is
SJ or something like that.  I wonder if there is any huge reason to not do
that?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sullivan < sullivan@OPENMARKET.COM
<mailto:sullivan@OPENMARKET.COM> >
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>  <
vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> >
Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: Why my 1.9 turbodiesel died....

Dear Karl,

Mobil 1 is NOT rated for use with modern Diesels. For that I believe you
need an oil rated CH-4 or better. Mobil Delvac 1 is the way to go (also good
is Amsoil). You can find a lot of info about this on the TDI forums at:

http://www.ufies.org/~fred/forums.html

also try another excellent Diesel forum at:

http://www.vwvortexforums.com/forums.html

Cheers,
MJS

At 02:30 PM 5/10/99 -0400, Karl Mullendore wrote:
>Well, as soon as I began to drain the oil from the engine today (or tried
to
>drain!), it became very apparent why it died! In the 7000 miles I drove it
,
>to Oregon and back (fresh Mobil 1 oil at departure), the oil became SO
thick
>from soot that it now looks like nasty black molasses.

Michael J. Sullivan
Director of Catalog Design
Open Market, Inc.

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