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Originally Posted by barry123400
Volkswagon diesel has been sythetic only since the end of 99 I believe and they are direct injection engines.
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True, if you consider Group III to be synthetic.
VW direct injection motors were first introduced to the NAmerican mkt in 1996 in the Passat B4 body. They did mandate an upgrading of the oil spec to "synthetic" per the April 1999 service bulletin. Keep in mind, the Castrol Syntec (topic of this thread) is of course Group III.