That's nice to see an endorsement from someone with more than a passing interest in the product.
Up until my 1.9tdi VE Cordoba Vario died - from terminal body rot and increasing difficulty getting some parts (I'd run her for 21 years) - I'd run "the family fleet" on whatever good quality, spec compliant mostly, lubricant I could get at a good price. During searches for product I came across the Fuchs brand and bought it when it was attractively priced - often from Opie or Powerenhancer. What especially made me concentrate on engine lubricant was when my oldest boy bought a 1.9tdi PD Fabia. The PD engine had been around for a while at that time and several people I know at my local VAG specialist independent workshops were all telling me what a good engine it was but that it was very critical of it's oil due to the cam lobes being quite narrow and prone to wear if the specific oil was not used. (they also told me of the injector loom problem which his car actually suffered later in it's life and which I found quite easy to sort being pre-warned). Anyway, at that time the VAG recommended oil was a Castrol product - which was very good but seldom discounted anywhere. Not many other companies were making suitable product at that time but one I did find was Fuchs. Having been prewarned about the camshaft problems I was very nervous about using anything other than the Castrol product so I dropped an email to Fuchs and was quite surprised to get a very detailed and informative reply. As a direct result I started using their stuff and had no problems.
When The Cordoba "died" back in 2016 - rip my good friend - I bought the Ibiza which has the wee, highly stressed in my opinion, 3 cylinder turbo EA211 engine. during her warranty period she was serviced by the dealer but when that expired I took that over myself and was even more worried about lubrication than I had been with the PD. I'd also become aware that Fuchs were now an original fill supplier to VAG - or so I think? - and that they had replaced Castrol as supplier of their Quantum range of oils - which I sometimes bought through TPS and had never had problems with. So I dropped quite a lengthy email to Fuchs regarding their recommendation for the Ibiza's engine and again got a very comprehensive and interesting reply. Shortly after that a number of other questions came into my mind so I actually rang them and, to my astonishment, was put through to one of their technical staff. We had an absolutely fascinating conversation during which he recommended one particular product to me and I ran the Ibiza exclusively on that until I part exchanged her 8 years later for the Scala. The engine was "as sweet as a nut" when I sold her.
Got about another 18 months until the warranty is up on the Scala and it goes without saying that I'll be running her on the relevant Fuchs product after that - which I note is an even lower viscosity product than the one the Ibiza ran on even though they are both EA211 family engines!
For those who might be interested here's a couple of links to Fuchs:
Discover our large range of engine oils, made for modern high-tech engines: powerful, fuel-efficient, highly durable and with maximum wear protection.
www.fuchs.com
And this one regarding their becoming the supplier of the Quantum brand to TPS:
Although I do tend to always buy the Fuchs products for my own vehicles I don't do so exclusively for the other older family cars. I'm very happy running the more mundane and less stressed engines - Honda Jazz, Mazda2, etc on other manufacturer's product. I even use the NAPA oils supplied by our local factor which I believe to be supplied by Valvoline but might be Exol - still looking into that one - but these are non turbo units which stress their oils much less. Valvoline is a name we'll all recognise? but Exol maybe less so? So here's a link for anyone who might be interested:
Exol Lubricants is the largest independent lubricants company in the UK. Manufacturing and supplying a range of lubricants and associated products to automotive, commercial, agricultural & industrial sectors.
www.exol-lubricants.com
