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Your mechanic is completely uninformed on the oil on two counts: 1) you can't use 'regular' oil--it has to be diesel-specific (due to the soot produced by a diesel engine), and 2) VW released a TSB back in 1998 (IIRC) mandating the use of ONLY synthetic (diesel-rated) oil in the TDI engines, due to the number of oil-related engine and turbo failures that they were seeing in this country.eskimocounselor said:No, it is not green. It is Alpine White. My mechanic said that the 96-97 TDIs take regular 5w-30 oil. Not sure what the previous owner used, but he had his mechanic do it all for him. I am just outside od Portland, OR, by the way.