Does a VW Jetta require premium gasoline?

The previous writer is correct: only the 2.5 5 cylinder and the old 2.0 liter non turbo four can run on regular gas. All other recent model VW's require premium grade fuel of at least 91 octane.

Also, your engine unless its a 2.0 non turbo four, requires synethic oil that meets VW requirements of 501.000, 502.00, of which either a special Castrol Synthenic oil (says it meets VW-Audi requirements) or the Mobil 1 european formula are the only oils I know that meet VW requirements. Be sure to use the right oil for the longest engine life.

Just though you ought to know, a car nut.

I had both a 2000 Jetta 2.0, and a 2000 Jetta VR6, and can tell you this... both of them ran horribly when I used regular/87. When I was driving the 2.0 I used premium and flogged the hell out of it & never had an issue. When my ex started using it, she drove it pretty gently but insisted that there was no difference between 87 and 91, so she used the former, and it promptly became a piece of crap: misfires, low idle, bad mileage. As soon as I started putting 91 back in, most of the problems fixed themselves.

If you're running a 1.8T or VR6, don't even think of using regular... you'll lose so much power it's not even funny, and problems will start popping up. Whenever my ex would take out my VR6 and bring it back, I could immedeately tell if she'd filled it up with regular, because it lost so much of its giddyup.

Volkswagen Jetta Gas

AS far as I know, the 2.5 liter 5 cylinder and the former 2.0 liter nonturbo 4 cylinder will run fine on regular. All of the Turbo motors and 6 cylinders require premium. I am not fond of cars that run on premium. I feel all cars should be engineered to run on the lower grades. You can get away with it on some of the Volvos I here

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your owners manual should tell you what the recomended octane fuel should be used in the vehicle. most vehicles now days unless they're high performance vehicles will require an octane rating of no less than 87 octane. and i would recomend staying with 87 if it can be run. 89 octance is sometimes cheaper but that ethonal can clog your fuel injectors and replacing them or having them cleaned isn't a cheap fix.

Actually, you can run non-premium on the turbos and the V6's. They both are equipped with knock sensors, however the performance of both will be diminished.