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Date:         Mon, 7 Feb 2000 20:14:29 -0500
Reply-To:     Dominique Cormann <kozmik@HOME.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Dominique Cormann <kozmik@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Re: Engine oil change interval (VW content...)
Comments: To: Coddington <coddington@pacific.net>
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Its http://tdi.abahn.bc.ca/

Lots of great TDI related info on their.

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:38:47 -0800 "Coddington" <coddington@pacific.net> wrote:

> Hi Dominique, > Where is Fred's TDI Forum? I'd like to take a look at it too. > Tom, in NO. Calif. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf > > Of Dominique Cormann > > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 4:21 PM > > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > > Subject: Re: Engine oil change interval (VW content...) > > > > > > First of all you should visit Freds TDI forum. He has one forum setup > > for this topic! Its been talked about for a long time now, since people > > just can't believe what VW is asking. The folk their have dug up quite a > > bit of info to make this topic less fuzzy. > > > > What the dealer is saying is true. In europe and in north america VW is > > recommending 10K mile / 16K kms oil changes. What he didn't make clear > > though was that this was 10K mile or 6 months. So if you do lots of > > highway miles, then you can do upto this number, but if you do short > > trips, then you'll end up changing it by the months. > > > > Even VW's older engines had high numbers for the drain time. > > > > My 84 VW rabbit1.6 D is 12K kms or 8000 miles > > > > Our 91 TD jetta is 8000 kms or 5000 miles > > > > Both are OR 6 months. > > > > You can change it more often, and perhaps extend the engine life, but > > the oils quality plays a much higher role then changing it extra > > frequently. > > ( Use a CH-4 oil, the syntec is CF ) > > > > People in Freds TDI forum, several of them now have posted oil analysis > > data from their oil after 10K miles on the Castrol syntec that the > > dealer puts in. Every single person showed data from different oil > > analysis companies that said the oil did not need to be drain yet! > > > > So this number from VW was conservative enough that these people still > > hadn't used up the oil. If you don't trust VW, me, or people on the > > internet, test the oil yourself. Its not expensive. I can buy oil test > > kits at my local fuel/oil distributors for around $10 - $25 canadian. > > That will end the mystery pretty quickly. > > > > Do what the dealer says for the beginning, since they are giving you > > free synthetic oil ( they are supposed to, so make sure they are ), and > > because you want the engine to break in correctly, so don't change the > > oil for the first oil change to quickly! > > > > Regarding the warrenty. It isn't absolutely clear, what it says is that > > if they find that you did not properly maintain the car and they are the > > ones who decide what is proper ( see the catch ), then they can take the > > warrenty away. Its their ball game. But its not designed to screw you, > > it really is a waste to dump the oil sooner, and if you do it on the > > first oil change when the engine was filled with break in oil, you are > > now harming the engine since the rings won't seat properly. > > > > > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 04:26:58 PST > > Richard Bias <rbias@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Good morning All, > > > I see on the list that there are some people like me who have > > purchased a > > > new VW recently. I have a 1998 Beetle. I have always changed > > oil in new > > > cars at 1K, then 3K and then every 3K interval after that. I > > talked to the > > > service manager at the dealer when I bought my car and told him > > that I was > > > thinking about changing my oil in the new Bug at 1K then at 3K > > and then let > > > them do the free oil change at 5K and so on (The recommended oil change > > > interval on the new 2L gas VW engines is at 5K, 10K and then > > every 10K after > > > that). He said to me when I told him what I planned to do, an > > emphatic "NO. > > > It will void your warranty. These engines were designed to > > go 10K between > > > oil changes." Is any one else out there worried about this? Thanks. > > > Rich and Annemarie > > > 85 GL "Buba" > > > 98 Bug > > > ______________________________________________________ > > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > -- > > ============================================================--------- > > Dominique Cormann Email: kozmik@home.com > > Homepage: http://kozmik.guelph.on.ca > > Diesel page: http://kozmik.guelph.on.ca/gtdproject > > 84 Rabbit D - daily driver > > 84 Rabbit GTD - work'in on it > >

-- ============================================================--------- Dominique Cormann Email: kozmik@home.com Homepage: http://kozmik.guelph.on.ca Diesel page: http://kozmik.guelph.on.ca/gtdproject 84 Rabbit D - daily driver 84 Rabbit GTD - work'in on it


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