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Offline GTI CV7

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Checked your oil lately?
« on: 07 July 2007, 23:45 »
Bit of a shock today. I checked the oil and found only a tiny bit on the bottom of the dipstick :embarassed:

Does anyone know the correct oil to use to top it up? The manual's as clear as mud and gives a VW spec for the oil. I assume it's fully synthetic, but what grade?

Cheers :rolleyes:

 
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Re: Checked your oil lately?
« Reply #1 on: 08 July 2007, 00:04 »
504 00.  AKA Castrol Edge.  :nerd:
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Re: Checked your oil lately?
« Reply #2 on: 08 July 2007, 00:12 »
On this note. Did you unscrew your cap? Mine seems to have some sort of vacuum thing going on - take the cap off and the oil sinks to the sump (even after being standing for 2 days).

Going further off topic I cant read my dipstick very well. Minimum and maximum are covered in oil but there is a bit in between those 2 which doesnt seem to have any oil on it :shocked:
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Offline Hurdy

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Re: Checked your oil lately?
« Reply #3 on: 08 July 2007, 10:46 »
Quote from: TeddyKGB on 08 July 2007, 00:12
On this note. Did you unscrew your cap? Mine seems to have some sort of vacuum thing going on - take the cap off and the oil sinks to the sump (even after being standing for 2 days).

Going further off topic I cant read my dipstick very well. Minimum and maximum are covered in oil but there is a bit in between those 2 which doesnt seem to have any oil on it :shocked:

Can't see how there would be a vacuum as the dipstick hole isn't air tight anyway!?!

I'm assuming that you wipe the dipstick and then re-insert it, pull it back out and then read the oil level?
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Re: Checked your oil lately?
« Reply #4 on: 08 July 2007, 11:13 »
Yep I do this a few times :grin: There is always abit that the oil doesnt seem to touch so it's hard to tell if you've under or overfilled :undecided:
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Offline GTI CV7

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Re: Checked your oil lately?
« Reply #5 on: 08 July 2007, 11:29 »
Quote from: 2007GTI on 08 July 2007, 00:04
504 00.  AKA Castrol Edge.  :nerd:
Brilliant, thanks. Hopefully they'll have some at the Shell garage... I have a feeling of being ripped off at Halfrauds, even if I don't buy anything :angry:
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Re: Checked your oil lately?
« Reply #6 on: 08 July 2007, 13:26 »
its castrol, not shell!  1 litre cost £14.99 from Halfrauds   :grin:
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Re: Checked your oil lately?
« Reply #7 on: 08 July 2007, 13:36 »
Quote from: 2007GTI on 08 July 2007, 13:26
its castrol, not shell!  1 litre cost £14.99 from Halfrauds   :grin:
Yeah, Like a tw4t I thought you could get Castrol oil from all half-decent garages... I ended up in Halfrauds in the end. The litre cost £13.99.
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Re: Checked your oil lately?
« Reply #8 on: 08 July 2007, 14:34 »
I got mine from the parts counter at my local VW, £12 for a litre.
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Offline illyun

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Re: Checked your oil lately?
« Reply #9 on: 08 July 2007, 14:55 »
I wouldn't put anything in mine except the longlife stuff the stealers sell.  :rolleyes:
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