Its http://tdi.abahn.bc.ca/

Lots of great TDI related info on their.

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:38:47 -0800
"Coddington" <coddington@pacific.net> wrote:

> Hi Dominique,
> Where is Fred's TDI Forum?  I'd like to take a look at it too.
> Tom, in NO. Calif.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> > Of Dominique Cormann
> > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 4:21 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Engine oil change interval (VW content...)
> >
> >
> > First of all you should visit Freds TDI forum. He has one forum setup
> > for this topic! Its been talked about for a long time now, since people
> > just can't believe what VW is asking. The folk their have dug up quite a
> > bit of info to make this topic less fuzzy.
> >
> > What the dealer is saying is true. In europe and in north america VW is
> > recommending 10K mile / 16K kms oil changes. What he didn't make clear
> > though was that this was 10K mile or 6 months. So if you do lots of
> > highway miles, then you can do upto this number, but if you do short
> > trips, then you'll end up changing it by the months.
> >
> > Even VW's older engines had high numbers for the drain time.
> >
> > My 84 VW rabbit1.6 D is 12K kms or 8000 miles
> >
> > Our 91 TD jetta is 8000 kms or 5000 miles
> >
> > Both are OR 6 months.
> >
> > You can change it more often, and perhaps extend the engine life, but
> > the oils quality plays a much higher role then changing it extra
> > frequently.
> > ( Use a CH-4 oil, the syntec is CF )
> >
> > People in Freds TDI forum, several of them now have posted oil analysis
> > data from their oil after 10K miles on the Castrol syntec that the
> > dealer puts in. Every single person showed data from different oil
> > analysis companies that said the oil did not need to be drain yet!
> >
> > So this number from VW was conservative enough that these people still
> > hadn't used up the oil. If you don't trust VW, me, or people on the
> > internet, test the oil yourself. Its not expensive. I can buy oil test
> > kits at my local fuel/oil distributors for around $10 - $25 canadian.
> > That will end the mystery pretty quickly.
> >
> > Do what the dealer says for the beginning, since they are giving you
> > free synthetic oil ( they are supposed to, so make sure they are ), and
> > because you want the engine to break in correctly, so don't change the
> > oil for the first oil change to quickly!
> >
> > Regarding the warrenty. It isn't absolutely clear, what it says is that
> > if they find that you did not properly maintain the car and they are the
> > ones who decide what is proper ( see the catch ), then they can take the
> > warrenty away. Its their ball game. But its not designed to screw you,
> > it really is a waste to dump the oil sooner, and if you do it on the
> > first oil change when the engine was filled with break in oil, you are
> > now harming the engine since the rings won't seat properly.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 04:26:58 PST
> > Richard Bias <rbias@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Good morning All,
> > >   I see on the list that there are some people like me who have
> > purchased a
> > > new VW recently.  I have a 1998 Beetle.  I have always changed
> > oil in new
> > > cars at 1K, then 3K and then every 3K interval after that.  I
> > talked to the
> > > service manager at the dealer when I bought my car and told him
> > that I was
> > > thinking about changing my oil in the new Bug at 1K then at 3K
> > and then let
> > > them do the free oil change at 5K and so on (The recommended oil change
> > > interval on the new 2L gas VW engines is at 5K, 10K and then
> > every 10K after
> > > that).  He said to me when I told him what I planned to do, an
> > emphatic "NO.
> > >   It will void your warranty.  These engines were designed to
> > go 10K between
> > > oil changes."  Is any one else out there worried about this?  Thanks.
> > >   Rich and Annemarie
> > > 85 GL "Buba"
> > > 98 Bug
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> > Dominique Cormann                              Email: kozmik@home.com
> > Homepage: http://kozmik.guelph.on.ca
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> > 84 Rabbit D - daily driver
> > 84 Rabbit GTD - work'in on it
> >

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Dominique Cormann                              Email: kozmik@home.com
Homepage: http://kozmik.guelph.on.ca
Diesel page: http://kozmik.guelph.on.ca/gtdproject
84 Rabbit D - daily driver
84 Rabbit GTD - work'in on it