Not to make an excuse for a shop that did not inform you of this but they *all* will develop a leak over time. The case material is aluminum and the drain plug is steel. You run a steel plug into aluminum threads and no matter how careful you are they will strip over just a few times. The proper way to fix (and what they should have had straight from VW) is a Time-Sert threaded steel insert. Also, you must use the aluminum crush ring for the drain plug that is specifically for the Vanagon and not the copper ones for the steel pans of the Golfs/Jettas. It got to the point that while I was working as a VW dealer tech that I hated to see a Vanagon in for an oil change because sure as John Anderson dropped his trans into reverse instead of drive they would leak afterwards. Poor design by VW- IMO. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Todd Hill VolksWerks Transaxles Olympia, WA |
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