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Car Forum / Volkswagen / Water Cooled Volkswagen Cars / September 2008having a bad day
breaking news, customer gets his 2006 VW towed to shop because it will not start! Guess what the problem is considering the engine has less than 1 qt of oil in the pan! customer admitted he has no service records and can't even remember when the last oil change was done! OUCH! I have seen that with a New Beetle Convertible with 1.8T, 17K miles, never serviced. Repair bill for that car was more than my last new car purchase > breaking news, customer gets his 2006 VW towed to shop because it will not > start! Guess what the problem is considering the engine has less than 1 qt > of oil in the pan! customer admitted he has no service records and can't > even remember when the last oil change was done! OUCH! Back in 1977/1978, I saw one engine (non-VW with pushrods) that went over 90K miles before its first oil change or tune up. That sludge inside was unbelievable, but after a thorough clean up inside the engine it was quiet and strong again. So what was the verdict Lost In Space? New engine or the owner traded it in to destroy another? I thought that with the newer synthetic oil and oil filters that it could last up to 24K miles or 2 years? At least in theory! ;-)  Signaturelater, (One out of many daves) >I have seen that with a New Beetle Convertible with 1.8T, 17K miles, never >serviced. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> 1 qt of oil in the pan! customer admitted he has no service records and >> can't even remember when the last oil change was done! OUCH! >breaking news, customer gets his 2006 VW towed to shop because it will not >start! Guess what the problem is considering the engine has less than 1 qt >of oil in the pan! customer admitted he has no service records and can't >even remember when the last oil change was done! OUCH! I guess we can assume the last service was in 2006, right? How many miles did he get on it? <bg> |
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