Hi

As many of You know I have been using Castrol GTX 2 in My beetle since 2005 when it went on the road.
I change My Oil very frequently...
Less than the VW recommended 3000 MILES.. [5000klms]
sometimes 1000 klms sometimes 700klms or 1500klms the MAXIMUM...

but as I had forgotten to tighten hose clamps on an external oil cooler - hose came off last monday.. losing ALL the oil on the side of the highway.. refilled with New Oil... engine goes..
but something IS damaged... so the engine will be pulled down shortly... and I will change My Oil...

YES MY Brand of Oil..

Castrol has deleted GTX2 from their oils ...

Just read the PENRITE fact sheet on their classic car oils..
[as posted in My No Oil post.many thanks for that toplessbug]

These Penrite classic oils are Excellent Oils...

they also recommend 3000 miles... MAXIMUM.. use between changes

I haven't priced this oil yet... but have seen it for sale .. locally

so it may be the One...

BUT What Do You Use???

LEE

Penrite HPR30 suits me as it is compatible with the Beetle and my old Holden. I just buy 20L drum, and change the vehicles at 3000 miles.

I could buy ACE 30, or Penrite Classic light for the Beetle, or any brand for either vehicle, but for simplicity and value the 20L drum works well for me.

Really at the end of the day, unless you have a specialist application, a quality brand standard oil will do the job.

I run Penrite HPR 30 in all my air cooled cars, if you have any questions penrite have a engineer available for you to answer any question that you might have, have not had any issues with there products and have been using it for for years

Until I put the Subaru engine in the Microbus, I used Penrite HPR30 exclusively. The Subaru needs a very light semi synthetic, so it is separate now.

i found that that oil hpr30 bumped my oil pressure through the roof as for the vintage oil very high in zinc and detergent was thinking of going that way my self as they have 20/50 and 15/40

I use ACE product oils, made by QPL in Australia.
It is an axcellent product formulayed specifically for VWs.
I recently went back to a thinner ACE 20 for the engine, and their synthetic for the gearbox.
yeha

Ace 30 would be what I would begin with for stock applications though.

Lee, firstly let me congratulate you on being 'man enough' to admit that it was your fault. Not very common these days.

HPR 30 is good oil.

I use ACE, as Dave has said, this oil is formulated for air cooled engines.

BradPen, forget which one?

or better yet Joe Gibbs DT50.


Penrite is good in water pumpers but I don't know how it works in a AC engine?

Hi

I use Nulon 20W-50 High Kilometre Engine Oil in my sons 1904cc bug, my sons R31 Skyline, my sons R31 Pintara and my wifes 2002 3.4 Prado, I buy a 20 litrre drum.

Steve

castrol edge sports
10/60
25/50
for big bore street machines

i use penrite for most of mine, i also use the cheap castrol stuff for one of my cars which leaks like a sif, penrite is too deer to waste

The best Castrol oil to use now is GTX 20W-50 in the [size=5]WHITE [/size]bottle.

Confusingly, they also make another product with the exact same name in a grey bottle. It won't hurt your engine, it just won't give quite as good protection against heat damage. So use the one in the white bottle.

This is the one you want:
http://www.castrol.com/castrol/productdetailmin.do?categoryId=8000012&con...