diesel noob question

gurunutkins

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Tucson AZ
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2011 VW jetta sportwagon
My first diesel - a 2011 jetta sportwagon - with the help of the wiki and the great threads I completed the 40K service with no problems - many thanks to all.
while under the car doing the transmission I spotted the item in the pictures - It looks like it has a removable cap like the filters but as I dont know what it is I cannot search for it to find out if it needs to be cleaned, drained or just left alone. If someone could let me know what it is it would be great - thanks

Picture is taken from the bottom of the car looking up
 

gurunutkins

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Tucson AZ
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2011 VW jetta sportwagon
Thanks very much - appreciate the reply. I had assumed it was part of the EGR system - oil cooler had not crossed my mind :eek:
cheers
Barri
 

iamatt

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Apr 5, 2006
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Rosharon, Texas
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2014 Jetta 6 Speed manual
Anyone know how much oil that holds? Maybe worth emptying when switching to different oils ?
 

nord

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Southern Tier NY
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All turned back to VW. Now a 2017 Hundai Tuscon. Not a single squalk in 10k miles.
You're overthinking. Leave well enough alone.
 
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