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Your DPF failure is highly unlikely to be caused by a few 5w40 oil changes. The viscosity is basically a non factor in regards to the DPF anyhow. It's the ash content that's relevant. Do you know what oil was used specifically?

A low ash 5w40 that meets a spec like mb 229.51 isn't going to hurt anything except very marginally fuel economy on a stock or deleted CR TDI. Probably not going to help much either, the 507 spec Xw30 oils are pretty nearly 40 weight oils.

Once the DPF is full of ash and not just soot, it's generally done for. Seem to be mixed results with removing and flushing out the ash from dpf matrix on the TDIs. How many miles on the car?

The volume of red tape at the NRC is pretty daunting. Mega-corporations like Microsoft probably have ways to cut through a lot of that, though.

Sounds like you're running over frequent regen cycles due to a likely full dpf and some fuel from the post injection events is migrating to the sump.

An echo from the days before ubiquitous bots.

Gotta be better than his pro-Putin documentary.

Yes, new rotors. The rest of this conversation is useless jibber jabber.

Well the single earner income threshold to qualify for the used EV rebate is $75k/year. That seems pretty fair to me. Wealthy people typically earn well over that amount.

Technically it's a tax credit, but it's available essentially as money on the hood at the time of purchase. There are even ways to get the discount/credit at time of purchase from a private party sale. The govt. really wants to encourage EV sales...

If you can find one at least a couple years old for under $25k there's up to a $4k federal rebate. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/ev-tax-credit-electric-vehicle-tax-credit

I'd replace it sooner than later.

Yeah, pretty key to remember putting the fittings on before making the flares. I think most of us who've made up a number of lines have made that mistake at least once.

The double flares are SAE and the bubble flares use metric fittings. I just have a cheap double flare tool, but it works great on the soft nicopp line. I've had good luck making bubble flares using the flat side of the flare bar. A true bubble flare tool would make better flares I'm sure, but...

The copper nickel brake line is so nice to work with compared to steel. I've even had pretty good luck making bubble flares with it using my double flare tool.

Shocks and struts have a fairly minimal effect on ride height. It's the springs that effect that. I have 1.25" drop sport springs on my Golf that I'm very happy with. They only dropped my car about 3/4" since the factory springs were tired and broken. The impact on handling the springs and new...

The 17x8" rims with 225/45 r17 tires on my lowered Golf are a perfect size, imo. You'd need 235 wide tires at a bare minimum on 17x9" rims, and those would be stretched. Wider tires are going to take a toll on fuel economy and cost more.

Seems fine to me.

You won't be able to get the lug bolts in if they're the wrong bolt pattern.

I liked that one too. They were sure they had optioned the bulletproof interior trim, lol.