Could not find much info on tranny fluid, but ended up trying redline mt-90 40's feels notchy when warms up feels better, afraid how it's going to be in winter, part of the reason went with mt-90 for summer plus towing small camper figured be ok or what would you guys recommend, thanks in advance.
manual transmission fluid dilemma
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JELLOWSUBMARINE
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O.E. VW fluid. You can easily destroy sycros and other internals with the wrong gl rated stuff. Your shifting is already complaining
Serviced @ 70k with o.e.m. VW. Occasional rare mouse towing a house duty. Still drives and shifts like new.
Serviced @ 70k with o.e.m. VW. Occasional rare mouse towing a house duty. Still drives and shifts like new.
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oilhammer
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I use what the factory uses.
JM Popaleetus
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$100 every 100k miles seems cheaper than a new transmission.
oilhammer
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Yeah, $100 every 100-120k miles is dirt cheap PM costs in my opinion. One of my manuals is nearly to 600k miles.... and I TOW with it!
jetta 97
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I use in all mine and Customers cars only Factory fluid and chnage every 80k, none of them ever had any problems .
I really do not understand why someone will go anything but factory fluid , they work very good.
I really do not understand why someone will go anything but factory fluid , they work very good.
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My 2010 MT still has the original oil and it shifts without any issue. But given that it is now 11 year old and it has 276K on the
odometer, I guess I should look into changing the oil soon.
odometer, I guess I should look into changing the oil soon.
JM Popaleetus
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Why ask for our advice if you’re going to disregard it?
While I do believe there is a lot of hyperbole on this message board. A TDI is not the car you want to be buying for forgiving and cheap maintenance. Especially when it comes to lubrication.
While I do believe there is a lot of hyperbole on this message board. A TDI is not the car you want to be buying for forgiving and cheap maintenance. Especially when it comes to lubrication.
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adjat84th
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OE fluid works better than any Redline fluid, I've tried a couple.
Redline seemed to be good towing scamp trailer with gear roughly 1500 miles put on in a week did really well, but i probably will go with Oem don't hear good things in winter for redline even tho it's pretty thin MT-LV, other then that it was great trip car did really well did 70-75 mph and low's was 27 best 31.2 doing the fill measure, weather was super hot where i live had to escape to the coast Olympic National Park (WA).
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I came here to recommend exactly this fluid
70W/75W Gear Oil (1 Quart) - Red Line 50604
70W/75W Gear Oil (1 Quart) - Red Line 50604
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I had Gear 300 75w90 and found it to be far too notchy when cold and even when warm it was a bit stiff.
MT-LV smoothed things out like butta!