VAG fool
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Horn mod didnt happen today as I used up all the daylight with a long lunch and faffing about over the radiator skew issue* and then an oil change** which has revealed a dipstick/tube mismatch.
*This was down to a badly installed top mounting rubber being 90° out and not clipped into the rad frame. All is now well, a fresh air guide (which works quite hard as it is in tension) brought it all into line.
**PO helpfully supplied a brand new suffix G dipstick, but being a replacement has a "bead" on the cable very close to the end, which prevents it going down the metal tube, so its not compatible anyway.
Furthermore, the handle is the wrong type to clip/plug into the top of the tube and so doesnt even seal properly, it also fouls the flap and has gouged the aircon gas label on the back...
The sump had about 4 litres in it and the oil looked old.
Filler tube off, filter off, clean up, primed the new oil filter and then put a total of 3.3 litres in so at least that is correct.
Suggestions for which dipstick this AUA should have that will correctly clip onto the tube please!
I will happily swap this new unused suffix G dipstick for one that will work with this tube (suffix P?)
*This was down to a badly installed top mounting rubber being 90° out and not clipped into the rad frame. All is now well, a fresh air guide (which works quite hard as it is in tension) brought it all into line.
**PO helpfully supplied a brand new suffix G dipstick, but being a replacement has a "bead" on the cable very close to the end, which prevents it going down the metal tube, so its not compatible anyway.
Furthermore, the handle is the wrong type to clip/plug into the top of the tube and so doesnt even seal properly, it also fouls the flap and has gouged the aircon gas label on the back...
The sump had about 4 litres in it and the oil looked old.
Filler tube off, filter off, clean up, primed the new oil filter and then put a total of 3.3 litres in so at least that is correct.
Suggestions for which dipstick this AUA should have that will correctly clip onto the tube please!
I will happily swap this new unused suffix G dipstick for one that will work with this tube (suffix P?)
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