whats the best oil to use fo gti 1.8 t?

whats the best oil to use fo gti 1.8 t?

any suggestions?

Asked by: Ghost @ 2009-07-22 02:11:46

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i use full synthetic 5w30 . . . i like mobil 1

Jeremy

synthetic pretty much any brand you want to buy

kelly_f_1999

It is best to use what the manufacture states in the manual.

Sheepgal

mobile 1 synthetic oil

bobbysmema2

I would say fully synthetic oil, mobil one is good. I think that anything with a turbo needs careful attention to the engine oil. Most people dont know that the turbo bearings are cooled by the engine oil, and that they spin around 300,000 rpm. So having good, quality oil is probably best. The dealer puts in regular oil but I wouldn't. If you take it to have the oil changed be sure to watch them change your oil because they often will tell you one thing and put in another.

Also make sure to use a vw oil filter, the aftermarket oil filters are made to filter out too fine a particle and causes pre-mature wear on your oil pumping system. You have a bypass valve on your oilcooler in your car, and since these filters slow down the flow of oil to the turbo, the oil bypass opens sooner. In my opinion a slightly higer flow of oil is more important than filtering it more.

Just my $0.02

Dan S

Pentosynth 5w-30 made by Pentosin, a German company. It will last for 15,000 miles, but I change mine at 10,000 because of the precious turbo.

eten_23

Crisco

Shoop Da Whoop

Edge 5w30 it takes 4.5 litres.Check on link for alternatives:
http://www.castrol.com/castrol/iframe.do?categoryId=9024084&contentId=7044829

Gear M

is walking 2miles the same as driving 2miles why does it seem longer?

Asked by: msladyher @ 2009-07-22 20:23:17

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It seems longer because in a car, you can clear it in a couple of minutes going 25 mph. With legs, you walk very slow and ealk 2 miles within 30 minutes.

.:{FUGG operative}:.

yes its the same distance. 2 miles is 2 miles no matter how you travel. it just takes longer because driving is much faster. an average walking pace is around 3 miles per hour i believe.

TXSupermanTTU

Are you kidding? If your not because at average the car will go 60mph which means in 2 minutes it would have gone 2 miles. While if u were running and the average running speed is 7 minutes per mile which is about 8.5mph it would take u 14 mins to run that same distance that the car took 2 minutes to complete.

if u aint first ur last

When you are walking you are traveling at about 3 MPH. When you are driving you can be traveling at 60 MPH or more. To walk 2 miles at 3 MPH will take 40 minutes. To drive that distance at 60 MPH will take 2 minutes.

It seems longer because it takes more time,

fire4511

you are a super hero. you shouldnt walk or drive, you should just fly.......

Jhon

sounds like ur taking baby steps.. could this be?

So Cali Guy

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND A BRAKE KIT FOR MY 2002 VW JETTA 1.8T?

IF POSSIBLE CHEAP OR A GOOD AFTERMARKET

Asked by: HPRINZE @ 2009-07-22 15:26:36

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Auto Zone, O'Rielly's, or Advanced Auto Parts, maybe.

CountryGirl

Autozone or Advance Auto

Bubba B

like everyone else said, Auto Zone if not in stock they will order it for you.

william m

Also try: www.rockauto.com

John E

Just a suggestion; don't buy the cheapest brake rotors or brake pads, you'll find they don't hold up well. You need to buy a high quality parts, sure they might be more expensive, but in the long run you'll save time & money. I've redone a lot of brake jobs where people have bought the cheapest parts; no name parts made in places like India, China, Sri Lanka, Vietnam etc..

Non OEM (non VW) is ok, just be sure that's its quality. Rotors that have a quality finish, brake pads that are at least semi-metalic or better and hopefully the best that a national brand has to offer. Bendix, Raybestos, ATE, etc... why is it that its ok to do a job over, but not to due it right the first time. Brakes have to stop the car; you want fade free and the shortest stops possible. There are places to cut costs: brakes, steering & suspension aren't the places do it. Less expensive, ok, but quality first.

a car nut

Go to CarQuest for those. They carry reputable brands, especially for VW's and such. Try to avoid AutoZone and Advanced Auto Parts, they don't sell products of the same quality as CarQuest. There are many places online for quality VW parts, so you could Google vw brakes. I have bought many items off of ecstuning.com and have never had a bad experience. They just got some new brakes to suit all types of drivers for a good price.

DON'T GO CHEAP ON BRAKES, you need them.

eten_23

30m deciding between New Prius, 07 Audi A4, 07 BMW 3-Series, or 07 VW passat.?

Also what is the best color? Dark grey or black?

Asked by: Nick C @ 2009-07-21 23:31:45

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def 3 series in dark grey

worty24

damn that charcoal grey or black audi is where is at in my opinion.

aight tty im audi 500 OUT good luck ps fk a prius

BKE>

Prius is on the list why??? did you lose a bet??

I like the Audi myself...everyone has a BMW 3 series

former customer

Prius:
+Fuel Economy.
-It's a Prius.
+Some people like that sort of thing.
-The people who do are pretty much boring.
+It will never, ever, ever go wrong.
-The inside is horrific when compared to the German cars.

3-Series
+BMW makes amazing pieces of engineering.
+Best handling out of all four.
-It's sort of blandly styled.


Passat
+It's safe and sensible.
-Maybe a bit too much so.
+Comfortable, reliable, fairly economical.

A4
+It's an Audi.
-Shares it's platform and various bits with the Passat, Seat Exeo, and Skoda Superb.

Dark grey. Black shows dirt too easy, gets hot, and makes you look like a gangster. Which is fine, if you happen to be a gangster.

Other cars to consider: VW CC, VW GTI.

Felix C

You have quite the array of choices. In my opinion the audi is the choice. it has AWD, a sweet interior, likely the 2.0t motor (fuel efficient and tunable), and nice looks to boot.

The reasons for the others to be in the running is a mystery to me. The prius? why would you consider a prius compaing it to three really fun cars to drive? You sit in a prius and then get into any one of the other cars.


BTW black is very hard to keep clean, dark grey is a little better and looks better with regular alloy wheels.
For almost 30k brand new you think they would give you an interior that wasn't totally cheap and cheap looking plastic. and the seats? try driving one whole tank of gas in those seats, they suck and anybody telling you different has an iron ass.

But of the three (because the prius is silly) choices, you have awd, fwd, and rwd. That choice depends on where you live. If you live in the northeast like me, the awd is definitely handy, as is the front wheel drive. (i've owned and audi, and laguhed at the bmw guys having their "ultimate driving experience" while stuck in the snow spinng their tires.) The bmw is a sweet car and no one can discount that, but if you live where your going to have snow and can't afford the 5grand extra for the 330ix then go with the audi. The vw is probably the most fuel efficient of the three based on it probably being a 2.0t and it is marginally lighter than the audi. You get much the same features as the audi as it is the same platform car as the audi.

My honest opinion, the audi. You'll be happy. and you can laugh doing dogunuts in the snow in a fellow bmw owners driveway when hes stuck at home in the snow and can go out for starbucks..... haha

Dan S

the passat or the audi in black with dark tint and black chrome wheels.

flamin- pants

Why won't the valves on my vw engine move?

None of the valves on my brother's 1600cc air cooled vw engine will move. I know the engine is not locked up because it will turn over although it won't start. There was water in the valve cover on one side.

Asked by: Donny @ 2009-07-21 19:03:23

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I'm not sure about a vw engine but if none of the valves aren't moving its probably because the cam isn't turning.

mad dawg

Broken timing chain or timing gears

DodgeDude

the pushrods may be broken, the camshaft bearings may be bad and arent pushing the valves far enough up and down.

How do you know the valves aren't moving? if you have opened the heads and do not see them moving?

If you can turn the engine over and it dosent start it could be a mulititude of reasons. If your vavles weren't opening you probably would have some strange noises coming from the engine when you crank it over. Propbably like a bent/broken pushrods.

I would say that it is likely a fuel or spark problem if you can turn it over. Valves have to move when you crank the engine over unless the pushrods are missing. there is something else likely wrong other than the valves.

Dan S

I guess that your saying that with the valve cover off, while some one is cranking the starter the rocker assembly is not pussing the valves open? you cant push them open by hand those springs might not look like much but there stiff as h3ll. the cam could have badly worn lobes but this usually only happenes on one lobe at a time. remeber there are only four lobes and they each operate 2 valves a peice. i have burnt off a lobe once and it kills 2 cylenders at the same time.
I would do this. if you know how to do a valve adjustment, start there. maybe there is a lot of lash I.E. too much space between the rocker and the valve stem. the valves only move a little bit 4-5 MM. I think. set the gap to .004in.with a feeler gauge. To see if the cam is ok, do this: with the valve cover off, one side. put four fingers on the bottoms of the rockers where the push rods touch and have some one crank the starter. you should feel the rise and fall of the cam lobes. if not make sure the push rods are not out of place. they should not be anywhere but right in the middle of the rocker arm. they should all rise the same amount when the cam is turning. if not you either have a broken cam(it happens) or a worn down lobe. if you had been driving with a dropped seat and never readjusted the valve lash this would put a bunch of wear on the cam. once you get through the 2mm of nitriting (Hardening) on the cam the lobe just melts away. the water in the valve cover is not part of the problem. the valves cant rust in to place, the valve guides are bronze and don't rust.
valve adjustment, check points gap, spark at the coil, put in fresh gas(remove the old) check fuel filter.
if you have spark and you have air the only thing left is the right amount of fuel. check for vacume leaks once you get it running.
one more thing if one or more of the valves is tight, has no lash(.004 space) then that valve is held open all the time, therefore no compression in that cylender. it'll run with one or two tight valves but not well and will have a real hard time starting.
if you don't know how to do the valve adjustment rock each rocker back and forth keeping track of where the distributer is pointing. in other words, pull the dist cap look at the rotor and the cap to see what cylender is supposed to be firing(follow the plug wire). you can rock the car forward in first to turn the rotor where you want it. so with the rotor pointing at No1 rock the rockers on cyl no1. the rockers should be free to move a little bit. now rock the car forward so the rotor points at no4 and wiggle those to feel for lash. and so on check all 16 valve rockers. if one does not rock( on a cylender that the rotor is pointing at) losen the adjuster a touch. get a manual and youll figure it out. good luck

TomatoeP

Water? In an AIR COOLED Engine? Prob. just from condensation or from cleaning. THere is no source of water in a VW engine.. even a blown one so water must come from an external source.

As far as your question goes:

Do you mean you can not push them open?
YOu should not be able to.. the springs are strong.

or do you mean that when the engine rotates the valves do not open..
If that is the case then they are badly out of adjustment and the pushrods are not going far enough

.. hope that helps...

ca_surveyor

I am buying a Jetta 1999-2003 and want to know good miles to buy it at?

I want to buy a Jetta between 1999-2003 and i was wondering what the engine it like for miles. like is 100,000 miles too much?

thanks.

Asked by: Simon @ 2009-07-22 18:27:29

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depends on the Dealer and old onwer

also ckeck with carfax the dealer has more on that

Random

In 2005 I purchased a 2002 Jetta with 30k miles on it.

Currently it has 84k miles and is just starting to get to the point where repairs will become costly.

VW is a great brand to purchase because they have a long shelf life and they don't require repairs as often as other makes. The problem is that when you do need a repair, it costs a lot and it is hard to find a mechanic with experience in European models.

If you purchase the car at 100k miles, be prepared to spend a few hundred bucks every couple of months to get the system running. 100k is right where most warranties expire and parts wear out. They need to be replaced, but if you can afford it, the car will last you another 100k easily.

Cee Eff

take how old the car is an multiply it by 12k miles. ex. if the car is 7 years old 7 x 12 is 84k miles. should be around the mileage on the car. plus highway miles are better then city miles on a car. good luck

Mr.Gifford

idealy you want something that has about 10,000 miles per year on it. so if its a '99 100,000 would be perfect. for a 2003 you would want 60,000 miles. its rare to find but it just means there hasnt been a lot of wear and tear on the engine

TXSupermanTTU

I *just* bought a 2002 Jetta 1.8T 5 hours ago (lol). 100,850 miles, purrs like new so far. Obviously I can't speak to how well it will hold up, but I can say it seems to have held up fine until now.

Word is these engines will go well over 200,000 and that in general, what breaks is the extra features as opposed to something that will kill the car.

If you're in the 80,000-100,000 (and certainly anything above it), check to see if they've changed the timing belt & water pump. I believe those are the only major concerns at that mileage.

Again, I'm obviously a newbie with Jettas myself, but that's what I know based off the research I did before buying the car.

Caleb

How do you open the roof on the VW beetle?

Asked by: Karen @ 2009-07-21 17:20:39

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this may sound stupid but you just open the roof.

is it a convertible?

roobeh

Is it a convertible?

If so, you push the little part in the center that says "OPEN" and the handle pops down. You pull down on the handle and twist it and the roof is loose. There's a little button by the parking brake and you pull that up and it'll lower the top.

If it's a sunroof/moonroof...

There's a little dial between the rearview mirror and the sunroof. Turn it all the way back and it'll open it up.

Sleazy P. Martini

Twist the knob above the rear view mirror.

Evil O

angle grinder, or sawzall will open it too any size you wish. your dad might need to help you.

TomatoeP