for sure. Who knew? I don't expect 100's of thousands of miles but 200K would be nice. ;) re: Redline. I have no proof, but my gut feeling is that the Redline MT put in my previous "unknown" used transaxle helped nurse it along. Eventually it stuck randomly in 4th but was otherwise ok and working when pulled. Neil.
On 6/21/14, Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com> wrote: > VW never anticipated that we'd still be driving these beasts hundreds of > thousands of miles later. The transaxles were lifetime lubed, but only for > the anticipated five or ten year lives. |
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