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Hi booze Glad your liking your new car. There are a few lads in my office that class that as one of their dream cars. It is a nice motor mate. Great DSG box and sweet engine. I reckon you'll be getting mid 30's on the m-way. 2p less in fuel too per litre and you've lost what, 5 - 7mpg over the t180? On your mileage which i think is probably 10k or less from memory? your looking at about £4 per week more. Peanuts!!! Pop back from time to time and let us know how you are getting on. I might have my 335d by then but i will still be around here too.

If you trust the dealer, go back, explain what's happening. They'll probably realise they've made a mistake and change the oil. It's an understandable mistake, as apparently the techs were originally instructed to use 5W-30. Otherwise, you can do a quick and dirty viscosity test to check the oil grade Get a bottle lid and drill a small hole in the bottom Get a small container (1 litre) of 0w-20 oil from your dealer Fill the lid with oil Measure how long for the oil to run out. If it takes longer than 5 minutes, you need a bigger hole! Now get some oil from the car via the dipstick hole (use a thin plastic tube, a bit longer than the dipstick - poke it down the hole, finger over the end and lift) Repeat fill the lid and get run out time. (Make sure the oil is the same temperature (not from a hot engine.) If the times are roughly the same, the oils are the same grade. If the oil from the car takes longer, then they've charged for 0W-20 and used much cheaper 5W-30 or similar. You might even find the car oil is visibly thicker. 0w-20 is very thin indeed.