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Offline brett

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gearboxoil
« on: 06 July 2011, 11:22 »
mornin all again looking to change my gearbox oil wondered how much i'd need and whats the best stuff to use (direct from vw?),soz if a lame question ,done a few things to the car myself lately and fancied ticking something else off the list lol,cheers brett

Offline pigbladder

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Re: gearboxoil
« Reply #1 on: 06 July 2011, 11:33 »
if its the 8v rod change box ..2 quarts of redline mtl  (yes its quarts its u.s stuff)

if its the 16v cable change redline mt90 , 2 quarts

its harder to find so prob mail order , but the redline is really good and cures a few notchy probs etc

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Re: gearboxoil
« Reply #2 on: 06 July 2011, 11:34 »
ah rite cool cheers will have a look and ye its the 8v ,thx again

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Re: gearboxoil
« Reply #3 on: 06 July 2011, 20:53 »
EPX 80/90 will be fine

Offline thai-wronghorse

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Re: gearboxoil
« Reply #4 on: 06 July 2011, 23:05 »
I did look into running the Redline gear oil in mine but after much research i was reading lots of mixed reviews and as it was quite expensive as well i opted to stick with genuine VW gear oil which worked out to be less than half the cost and has really smoothed out the changes.....now to loose the sloppiness.