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There has been a lot of talk about oils as of late. I would like to present a few facts here. The VW air-cooled engine was built to run on 30 weight oil. Nothing has changed on this engine design since the engineers in the Black Forest (I know, Wolfsburg is far from there, but Dr. Porsche was in Stuttgart during the design back in the 30's) designed it for that single weight oil. With that said, if you run a multi weight oil.... you are running oil weight of the lowest number. if you use 10-30, you are using 10 weight oil. Additives break down real fast in these engines so the multi viscosity stuff does too. If you are running 20-40, you are running 20 weight oil. This stuff is for modern engines not our beloved air-cools. I have seen several engines die an early death from 10-30. If the pump is trying to pump light oil.... cavitation happens. Not good! If 30 weight was not used in our engines anymore, why does Castrol make a great one. So does Kendal. So does Pennzoil. Just my thoughts....... Flat4pat ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/