VW 507.00 vs. 504.00 vs. 502.00 Oil: How to Choose
Use the VW specification required for your exact vehicle, then compare the oil’s published references and the amount supplied.
Use the VW specification required for your exact vehicle, then compare the oil’s published references and the amount supplied.
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Identify the requirement before choosing a bottle
Treat VW 502.00, 504.00 and 507.00 as specification references to match, not a simple good-better-best ranking. A higher number is not permission to substitute an oil. Confirm the exact engine, market and service requirement before buying.
A retailer may separate approved specifications from recommendations. Preserve that distinction: a recommendation is not automatically a formal approval. Check the current product information and the label on the exact bottle rather than extending a claim from another formula or package.
Compare Top Tec 4200 offers
Liqui Moly Top Tec 4200 5W-30 is an option to compare when its published specifications match your vehicle requirement. ECS and Turner list VW 504.00 / 507.00 among the specifications for the one-liter product sold under Liqui Moly part number 2004. Confirm the exact application with the retailer before ordering.
Both offers below refer to Top Tec 4200 5W-30 in a one-liter bottle. They are not Top Tec 4600, Leichtlauf 5W-40, a five-liter container or an oil-change kit. That identity check makes the two merchant offers useful to compare without merging different formulas.
Work out the quantity for the actual service
One liter is the amount supplied in each bottle. It does not establish how much your engine needs for an oil change or a top-up. Determine the quantity for the specific operation and whether the filter is being replaced before choosing the number of bottles.
Select the filter and any required service items separately unless a listing explicitly includes them. An individual oil bottle should not be compared with a bundled service kit as though the packages were the same.
Make the final retailer check
Before purchasing, confirm the vehicle configuration, required specification, exact formula, viscosity and package size. If those checks do not match, choose a product that does; do not use a general engine-family statement to override them.
Use the merchant page for current price, availability, shipping and returns. EWP links the matching product offers; the merchant handles the transaction and final application questions.
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Written by
Lee Shahin
Founder, European Wholesale Parts
Lee Shahin founded European Wholesale Parts in Pleasanton, California, after 18 years in the Mercedes-Benz and BMW parts trade. He came to the parts side from the shop floor: he opened a European repair shop in Northern California in the early 1990s, specialising in Mercedes-Benz and BMW, and grew it with his wife Laurie into a parts and delivery operation serving body shops and independent repair facilities across the region. Nearly two decades at the parts counter taught him where the expensive mistakes happen, and most of them are fluids: the wrong coolant in an aluminium block, an oil without the sheet approval the engine was designed for, a transmission topped with the wrong ATF. That is what he writes about here. Every article names the manufacturer specification by its exact designation, explains what the wrong fluid does mechanically, lists products that carry the approval, and gives the capacity and interval for the models and years the specification covers. When a reader needs a part sourced, the quote desk at European Wholesale Parts is where Lee and Laurie still answer the phone.