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You might try air bags. I bought these air bags and installed them. I tow a trailer to/from Arizona from Washington state once per year, getting out of the snow and cold for the winter. My stock (with Kerma tune) 2013 Mk 6 Golf TDI does a fine job, but needed a 'tail lift' since the trailer...

So, I got the acrylic sheet cut down to size and fitted into the lower grill opening. For the time being I used duct tape, Gorilla brand, and it's holding well. Air hitting the front end at speed will hold this piece in. The tape is just for holding the plastic in until I'm on the road. This...

Since I'm leaving next Saturday morning for Yuma I bought a small sheet of 1/8th inch clear acrylic (not plexiglass) to block off the lower grill as a temp fix. Just have to cut it to fit the lower intake area. I think 4 zip ties should hold it on since the air rushing against it will hold it in...

Forgot to ask, what can I do in a way of a quick fix if the dealer refuses to see it as a VW problem? My understanding of the emissions warranty I have until Feb covers blocks and heads. Maybe I should encourage a hydro-lock?

I had this happen to my 2013 Golf TDI this morning. At first I didn't know WTH was going on, later on I remembered the same thing happening about a month or two after buying the car, early 2019 IIRC. It's a 'fixed' TDI from the buyback program. Never had a problem with the 2013 Jetta TDI that...

I got my ECS skidplate on Jan 15th, had time on Sunday so I installed it. Pretty beefy piece of aluminum. This is not a piece of sheet metal, it's 3/16th of an inch thick. Also discovered the rest of the damage by that thingy I hit in Nevada, two nutplates and the plastic that held them in place...

Kennedy Engineering has been making adapters for VW's for many years. I've used some of their products in the past, most recently their 1700 pound clutch kit for a 71 Karmann Ghia with a 2100cc 130hp engine. I've also installed their kits that adapt the Corvair engine into a bus. Very well made...

I just got the notice today that this one is shipping today. Sorry, could wait no longer for you to reply. Gotta have my distance driver up and going and I won't drive it with the oil pan exposed in winter.

I took a trip to/from Arizona in early Nov. Sure am glad my Golf had the OEM skid plate on it. I'm pretty sure it saved the oil pan from destruction. I was driving through Nevada on US 93, not much there but wild critters and the highway. It was dark and I don't know what it was I hit, all I saw...

Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been on the forums much of late. Sent you a PM. I'm looking on their website but don't see anything resembling a belly pan/shield. Maybe they discontinued it? ECS advertises an aluminum shield, but it isn't in stock until Jan 15th, which is pretty much the...

Thank you. I emailed them to confirm that this would fit my MK6. If they say yes I'll order it. It just doesn't look like the OEM plastic plate. Just wondering, would there be a problem with just leaving the oil drain hole open? I don't see how that would hurt anything.

I've been looking for a skid plate for my MK6 TDi. My OEM plastic one was busted up on a trip to/from Yuma Az a few weeks ago. I'd like something a bit more stout than the stock OEM POS. While it protected the oil pan ok several of the 'fingers' that hold it to the front end are gone and there...

I bought an ECS plate, just waiting for it to ship so I'm no longer looking for a plate. Thanks for looking. Got my stock plastic skid plate wiped out on a trip to/from Az a few weeks ago. Luckily no engine damage but I did have a gawdawful air drag with a reverse hood scoop for a thousand...

If that is the case my warranty is gone. I'm taking the car in for the DSG service in a week from Saturday. I'll revert to the fixed tune and see what happens.

IIRC when I was looking into a tune over a year ago. (June?) Malone didn't have their device available. I was ready to buy and Kerma was the main game in town at the time. The service manager at my dealer would simply look the other way. I told him I was quite unhappy with the MPG being in the...

I've had the Kerma tune installed in my 2013 Golf for about a year. Prior to installing the tune I was experiencing regens about every 200 miles or so of normal driving, 60% city 40% highway. Regens make for bad MPG numbers. With the Kerma tune the regens have been around 300-400 miles between...

Make that two, please!

I've had the Kerma tune for 2 fillups so far. My mileage before the tune was terrible as compared to the 2013 Jetta Premium TDI I sold back to VW for about $900 more than I paid for it. Not bad for a new car I drove for 3.5 years and 25k miles. Overall MPG over those 25k miles according to...

My first TDI was a new 2013 Jetta Premium. Over 3.5 years of driving 22k miles I averaged 40.1 mpg combined driving. I really loved that car, but I sold it back to VW because they offered me almost $1k more than I paid for it OTD! Hard to say no to that. When I heard the 'fixed' TDI's were back...

Based on on the problems that many of us are having it would appear that VW's gamble to 'fix' and resell these TDi's isn't going to pay off. I bought my 2013 Golf (DSG) in Dec last year. It took only 2 weeks for a CEL to appear. They had the car 3 weeks to fix several problems, a bad DPF and...