look up the ratings on that engine....
it's not good.

I've personally seen a few of them that had gone sour, and their owners were
quite dissapointed. It's possible that the 10K mileage oil changes that were
called for...... but I strongly believe that at least some of those people
changed their oil more often then that.
I have no idea why they do it..... but I know that it's a well documented
fault in that engine.

-Craig
'85GL turned WESTY
BOSTIG in the back

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:28 PM, pdooley <psdooley@verizon.net> wrote:

> I think it's more due to the unrealistic service intervals set by VW.
>
> What would cause a 1.8T to sludge up more than a VW 16V or ABA motor?
> They never had problems.  Of course the recommended oil change interval
> wasn't 10k miles either.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Don Hanson
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 5:34 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: 1.8T conversion OBDII [was:Re: Your GoWesty Engine...how do
> you
> like it?]
>
> No, but my 'Pal' at German Auto Salvage says that motor is one of his most
> plentiful blown up motors and he thinks it sucks.  FW that Is Worth.
>  Don Hanson
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Mark Dearing <VWBrain@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > has any of you goggled sluding problems with the 1.8T?  later   mark d
> >
>